Boston Nesties
camedowncrushing
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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Do you know what is weird/annoying?
This is a nest/bump thing. I know we recently talked about our annoyances, but I forgot this one.
I get annoyed when on the bump girls come on to give unsolicited advice. Like on the 1st tri board someone from 2nd tri will make a post "Advice from someone on 2nd tri." They just go on and on about whatever. The same thing has happened for every tri board, and it happens multiple times....these women come on and they are all wise now, and want to tell everyone about it. Now that I am on 3rd tri there are women that come on from all various boards that have had their babies with "Advice from a new mom" "Words of wisdom from a new mom" blah blah blah.
Re: Do you know what is weird/annoying?
I think it is really weird...especially since there are plenty of posts actually looking for advice that these knowledgeable women could reply to.
So many people give you so much unsolicited advice. I especially LOVE it when it comes from non-mothers.
And some of it is just bad/stupid advice. Some of it is good advice.
Do you know what my unsolicited advice to you is?
You are this baby's mother. No one knows your baby better than you do. So listen to your gut and your heart because that is all that matters.
Well I always like your advice, and often have questions for you!
You are right though....it is annoying IRL when people tell you what to do. SIL said yesterday how germs are GOOD for babies, and basically said I am crazy for being paranoid about the baby getting sick. It really IRKED me. First of all she doesn't have any babies OR a medical degree. I was just like "well this is what our pediatrician said, and she is the expert."
It's so weird, the bump takes annoying and crazy to a whole new level. It's entertaining, but sometimes I can't stand it.
When I was on 3-6, a regular poster (who I actually usually like), did a "Hang in there, ladies!" post of some sort on 3rd tri and linked it on our age board so everyone was commenting with advice.
It is just silly. No one is going to have the same experience as you, so no amount of unsolicited advice is really going to make a difference.