Any special ways you're counting down to baby?

JMelody02 · June 2016

I'm eating a Giant M & M each day. 12 left!! It's like

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an adult advent calendar.

joleri23 · June 2016

And when baby doesn't come in 12 days...?

HenchBytch · June 2016

PootsDragon · June 2016

STRANGER DANGER!

allthingscozy · June 2016

PootsDragon said:

STRANGER DANGER!

My thoughts exactly!

JMelody02 · June 2016

It's wonderful to model being friendly and welcoming to new ppl. Hope your kids are just as accepting to new kids in class as you high school maturity level girls are

HenchBytch · June 2016

JMelody02 said:

It's wonderful to model being friendly and welcoming to new ppl. Hope your kids are just as accepting to new kids in class as you high school maturity level girls are

We've been pals for months now. Since you came out of nowhere, we don't know you so it seems a little out of place for you to start judging US.

allthingscozy · June 2016

A few things. We have been in this from the beginning have supported each other through m/c scares, hard medical issue, family problems and pregnancy positives and woes.

you waltz in out of the blue not reading any of the threads and creating a bunch of your own and because people are Leary of you which makes sense because guess what there are catfish on the bump and you never have introduced yourself. So why would people not be weary of someone who joined a pregnancy board a week before their due date.

kellz14 · June 2016

JMelody02 · June 2016

Well some ppl use their real friends and family dos support and come to the interwebs for light hearted baby fun

HenchBytch · June 2016

@JMelody02 We have tons of fun here. Stick around and get to know us and you can, too. You could see how pregnant women closing in on their due dates would be skeptical of some random person coming into their established community and starting random threads. Don't you introduce yourself when you meet someone for the first time? Same here.

ETA: Also, lots of these women ARE my real friends. That happens after months of getting to know one another.

PootsDragon · June 2016

JMelody02 said:

Well some ppl use their real friends and family dos support and come to the interwebs for light hearted baby fun

Also you may want to check your privilege. Not everyone has real friends and family who are supportive. A close knit internet group with established rules and culture may mean nothing to you, but for some of us this is the biggest source of support we've had for the last nine months and we don't take strangers popping up rude AW threads lightly.

mamafox14 · June 2016

JMelody02 said:

Well some ppl use their real friends and family dos support and come to the interwebs for light hearted baby fun

Wow. Judge much? Good for you and your "real" friends, maybe they want to see a picture of a jar of m&ms and will find that somehow meaningful because they know who the hell you are. In "real life" do you just run up to groups of people you don't know, not introduce yourself to them, but just show them your m&ms and expect praise?

thepen15ismighty · June 2016

JMelody02 said:

It's wonderful to model being friendly and welcoming to new ppl. Hope your kids are just as accepting to new kids in class as you high school maturity level girls are

I hope you teach yours to put periods at the end of sentences. The grammar in this country already is horrid.

Kellyj103 · June 2016

JMelody02 said:

Well some ppl use their real friends and family dos support and come to the interwebs for light hearted baby fun

I'm sorry, what?

I don't have light hearted baby fun with rando strangers.

Weville · June 2016

Hey guys! Maybe counting is hard

Seriously though, this is a community like any other so introductions, manners, etc. go a hell of a long way

BecauseBabyIamAPug · June 2016

You know what, I am going to my real friends house today, and our daughters are going swimming together. We are going to have a little party. This is after their VBS and lunch. I met her on the Bump years ago.

So my Internet friends are my IRL friends.

Also, when a new student comes, it is customary to introduce themselves. Not just barge in and demand attention. Maybe at at their old school, they did XYZ. But that is not how new school does it. They are usually quite until they learn that ABC is cool here.

MurphaLurph · June 2016

Booooooo

MurphaLurph · June 2016

And I will have you know @PootsDragon has become a irl friend because of this group. She came to my sons birthday. Also who are you??

thepen15ismighty · June 2016

MurphaLurph said:

Booooooo

Heathereaddy · June 2016

BecauseBabyIamAPug · June 2016

DominiqueU · June 2016

I'm mostly skeptical because I don't feel like I can trust someone with the restraint to eat ONE m&m a day...

ncm1919 · June 2016

thepen15ismighty said:

JMelody02 said:

It's wonderful to model being friendly and welcoming to new ppl. Hope your kids are just as accepting to new kids in class as you high school maturity level girls are

I hope you teach yours to put periods at the end of sentences. The grammar in this country already is horrid.

If you are going to be rude, at least do so with proper grammar. Ending a sentence with the word are is just not done.

allthingscozy · June 2016

Also I was very mature in high school so I take that as a compliment. Held a job, had lots of extracurricular activities, graduated top of my class, had almost a full year of college credit under my belt.

The true problem here is people with a millennial mindset of "accept me and welcome me the way without me having to do any work to get to know you, and only tell me positive things. If I don't like what you say that is clearly your problem not my own perception issue"

HenchBytch · June 2016

I countdown using my dildos. Squeeeee!

SparkySunshine · June 2016

Well, I started at 40, and then each time it was magically Tuesday I subtracted one. That got me all the way to my current number of 2. Is there another way to count down?

Nerdchild · June 2016

I have the masticated and dried flesh of majestic, oxygen producing giants hanging on the wall of my home, shamelessly desecrated with symbols and pictures of cat-gods riding edible objects in the vast, cold nothingness of space.

I call it the 'Gregorian Calendar'.

thepen15ismighty · June 2016

HenchBytch said:

I countdown using my dildos. Squeeeee!

I can't breathe.

[Deleted User] · June 2016

Me on both of these new threads today:

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LadyFleck · June 2016

JMelody02 said:

Well some ppl use their real friends and family dos support and come to the interwebs for light hearted baby fun

Oh, so you don't want me to pat you on the back for having a scare-free pregnancy and not calling a nurse's line? Because I could've sworn that's what your AW post was for....to get praise where your friends and family obviously aren't providing enough of it, that you had to seek out a new group of people to whom you can feel superior.

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