The Great Drama Llama Thread

bumpybump · January 2017

abmommy15 said:

MrsCaliRN said:

August is a feisty group. See the Gender Guesses post. One responder points out that there is a difference between gender and sex and is shot down, and is later shot down by a bumper with a "gender non-conforming" child (as if that completely invalidates that there is a difference between sex and gender). My face seeing all the love its supporting this ignorance:

Needless to say, I think I'm going to have to lurk around there for awhile

The most annoying one to me was "I'm jealous most of you will be finding out sex/gender"...ummm what's with the /...clearly you know there is a difference in the words so how bout just using them correctly mmmmk?

Lurking from Aug. I'm the one who pointed out they mean sex, not gender. I left them alone for a while but I agree there is just so much ignorance in that post. So I had to post one more time with some education on the topic.

Stankonia2014 · January 2017

Your effort to educate is much appreciated, @bumpybump.

lizerspitz · January 2017

@sls I have a friend who was told by a great aunt that if she wanted to have a boy she should do it doggy style, and then proceeded to ask her if she knew what that meant.

kahlan82 · January 2017

@lizerspitz. THAT. IS.AWESOME. I can't wait until I am old enough to say weird shit like that and just blame it on age.

Stankonia2014 · January 2017

@sls, I received so many tips on how to conceive a boy. I shudder to think about it. After we found out it was a boy, the nudges I received at Christmas were even more awkward.

MrsCaliRN · January 2017

I found the BabyCenter to our precious Bump. The board is called "Chit Chat" and it's under the "Specialty" groups. Posts with titles like (and I'm paraphrasing here) "My SO found sex videos/pics of me and my ex," "womanly expectations," and "pregnancy drama." My inner drama monster is like

alm52386 · January 2017

MrsCaliRN said:

I found the BabyCenter to our precious Bump. The board is called "Chit Chat" and it's under the "Specialty" groups. Posts with titles like (and I'm paraphrasing here) "My SO found sex videos/pics of me and my ex," "womanly expectations," and "pregnancy drama." My inner drama monster is like

The vaccines one was a decent read.

mrt · January 2017

I feel like I should be saving these links for motn nursing sessions.

ellie111227 · January 2017

Woah. The one called "my best friend and her baby" (something like that) under Chit Chat is pretty good.

kahlan82 · January 2017

I am not familiar with how baby center is set up and my phone is being none helpful. Anyone got a link to the main chit chat board or speciality group section?

alm52386 · January 2017

kahlan82 said:

I am not familiar with how baby center is set up and my phone is being none helpful. Anyone got a link to the main chit chat board or speciality group section?

It's on TB!

merrylea · January 2017

I just got sucked into the babycenter site. Holy jeebus, are these women for real?

neludelu · January 2017

alm52386 said:

kahlan82 said:

I am not familiar with how baby center is set up and my phone is being none helpful. Anyone got a link to the main chit chat board or speciality group section?

It's on TB!

Where?!

alm52386 · January 2017

neludelu said:

alm52386 said:

kahlan82 said:

I am not familiar with how baby center is set up and my phone is being none helpful. Anyone got a link to the main chit chat board or speciality group section?

It's on TB!

Where?!

If you go to the list of all the boards there's a group called Specialty. Then choose Chit Chat under that.

sls · January 2017

merrylea said:

I just got sucked into the babycenter site. Holy jeebus, are these women for real?

I spent all of DD's pregnancy in BC or a BC FB group, including an IRL group of women. I was waaaaaay too patient with it, and everything went down in flames. I wish I'd found TB back then. You ladies don't put up with the crazy they seemed to embrace and relish. Thank you.

flyingncmama · January 2017

There is way too dysfunction in some of those chit chat threads for me to even enjoy the drama.

sls · January 2017

flyingncmama said:

There is way too dysfunction in some of those chit chat threads for me to even enjoy the drama.

Yeah, I'm more of a fan of people getting told off for bad behavior, probably because of the aforementioned terrible experience with my last group. "I don't know who the father is." Um, what do you want me to say? You know the answer.

MrsCaliRN · January 2017

How do you guys feel about "BMB lurkers give me your best thread" in A17? OP is flamed just doing some innocent drama-hunting.

neludelu · January 2017

MrsCaliRN said:

How do you guys feel about "BMB lurkers give me your best thread" in A17? OP is flamed just doing some innocent drama-hunting.

I talked about this a few posts up in here. I felt the same way you did. Others did not.

Stankonia2014 · January 2017

@MrsCaliRN, I was not a fan of her post (and expressed that), but thought she handled herself well.

MrsCaliRN · January 2017

Yeah, I saw you invited her to lurk over here @neludelu. It really wasn't all that strange of a request to me and she's okay in my book for outing herself as a drama lurker. I do see the other side of it like @Stankonia2014 and others who posted about it being her first post in the group; can kind of look strange. She did handle herself very well, could've turned into a GBCB very quickly.

kfry22 · January 2017

I would like to direct your attention to the July board. There is a lovely thread developing nicely over there titled "Help."

tripledaggerWed95976 · January 2017

Lurking
The August UO has a lady who has been smoking weed every day, and a FTM who thinks people shouldn't be allowed to only have 1 kid

michaela0704 · January 2017

@kassyfry I'm sure I'll miss the response from the OP, but you'd think ladies on that BMB would get it by now? They have had an usually high number of similar posts...

kat0607 · January 2017

kassyfry said:

I would like to direct your attention to the July board. There is a lovely thread developing nicely over there titled "Help."

Lurking from July**

ALRIGHT that's it, who here is punking us...

delujm0 · January 2017

@kat0607 haha I WISH someone was just punking you guys, that would explain a lot...seriously what is going on over there????

c1tym0m22 · January 2017

A belated note of thanks to all who are helping me out by posting these links. Y'all saved me last week when my ob was running an hour late with that crazy name thread, and have already provided some laughs today. I hope to pay it forward soon enough!

kfry22 · January 2017

tripledaggerWed95976 said:

Lurking
The August UO has a lady who has been smoking weed every day, and a FTM who thinks people shouldn't be allowed to only have 1 kid

The shit show that that thread is makes it hard to look away. The weed mom came back and is saying her "research" makes it safe. I was a friendly neighbor and alerted May of this as well.

anitamargarita_82 · January 2017

That August board is something else. I just can't fathom how some women think it's ok to ingest illegal drugs while pregnant. Whether your mid wife approves or not. How does that lady even know if what she's getting isn't laced with something else unless she's growing it herself. Do our babies not have enough issues that could possibly come up while developing that you have to be so selfish as to ingest illegal drugs? I mean I live in a state where weed is legal and available pretty much within 2-3 minute drive from wherever you are and if you want to smoke it/eat it..... cool! Just not while you're pregnant.

And the other ignorant chick who thinks being an only child is a syndrome... I just can't with her. I'm an only child. As far as I can tell I'm fine. I mean a may ride a broom to work occasionally but other than that I'm pretty normal :-) Furthermore after the pregnancy I've had thus far I'm not sure I want to do this again and some ignorant female on the internet isn't going to convince me I'm doing any disservice to my daughter by not having another baby.

Rant over :-)

keniialise · January 2017

tripledaggerWed95976 said:

Lurking
The August UO has a lady who has been smoking weed every day, and a FTM who thinks people shouldn't be allowed to only have 1 kid

This is exactly why I needed to figured out the gifs! Just for that thread... when even Kanye knows you're crazy, time to evaluate

michaela0704 · January 2017

What is interesting to me, as a non-recreational user... is that the more she shared about what she was doing the less I was appalled by it.

Feel free to flame me, but I did take Zofran last pregnancy just to be able to keep something down and don't really trust Rx medications all that much... I HATE taking anything, ever. I do have HG per my OB this time and if I needed some serious medications to keep me hydrated and nourished, I doubt I would resort to using weed in any form but probably more so because it is illegal where I'm from, against my Corporate policy, etc. but not because I think it would be worse than Zofran or other Rx medications. I'm a big believer in alternative medicine... I've seen chiropractors, acupuncturists, herbalists, and integrative medicine doctors... I do yoga, gua sha, myofascial release/massage, essential oils... I believe in gut health/link to overall health... however, I do see @Wearmi1's point, esp. about sourcing it and quality, that is a big risk to take.

Also, I think repeatedly beating her down in that thread is doing no one any good... it won't change her POV and actions.

meilay · January 2017

As someone who is pretty firmly going to be one and done for a wide variety of reasons, I laugh at anyone having an opinion on us doing otherwise. We've already had family doubt our decision and be pretty adamant that "you need at least two."

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sls · January 2017

I think the marijuana mama is punking everyone. Even if she's serious, she's here to stir up drama. I bet she even knows May and June have the popcorn out.

delujm0 · January 2017

sls said:

I think the marijuana mama is punking everyone. Even if she's serious, she's here to stir up drama. I bet she even knows May and June have the popcorn out.

I want you to know that I'm working from home today and I read this and thought to myself "POPCORN. YES." And now I am making some.

Stankonia2014 · January 2017

@michaela0704, yeah, I'm more appalled by 'one and done' poster than I am by marijuana user. I think there's such a negative connotation with marijuana, but after having two children with seizure disorders and a husband with PTSD, I've researched the many benefits of cannabis, CBD oil, etc. After she said tinctures and edibles without THC and such, I'm not as appalled by her anymore. My father's doctor said that certain strands of marijuana will help him with the nausea from chemo.

michaela0704 · January 2017

@Stankonia2014 when she shared tinctures and edibles is where I was more or less ok with it too... but it took her saying that much for me to jump ship to being not appalled by it.

Stankonia2014 · January 2017

That said, I have never smoked or used marijuana in my life and it's not something I personally would ever use while pregnant.

indulgentgypsy · January 2017

happily lurking from August. This is a beautiful beautiful thread

lmudra · January 2017

May be UO but...Meh...I had to research a ton of different drugs that we'd were open to our adopted child being exposed to. All I could find was anecdotal evidence that it wasn't healthy whereas alcohol, meth, coke, heroin there is a ton of scary research on the impact to baby. I'd be far more worried about some 'allowed' prescription meds women take.
And of all the drugs we researched we actually said a hard no to any alcohol consumption during pregnancy.

Knottie42089123 · January 2017

Man I could go for some weed lately. Lol or a cold beer.
She could have mentioned the THC part in the beginning and a lot more people would have been ok with it.

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