The tales I could tell on you...

Back on April 1st I had the foresight to join babycenter.com and subsequently the December 2010 birth club. I had a positive pregnancy test on March 30th and ended up delivering my son on December 19th. I strongly urge anyone who has just found out that they are pregnant to join their due month birth club. There's no end of entertainment to be had. I was an infrequent visitor the first few months of my pregnancy due to working a demanding full time job. Once that ended in June I became active. By sheer dumb luck I was in the right place at the right time and fell in with a great group of fellow bitches. There's a "Life Cycle of a Birth Board" floating around. No one seems to know the origin, but it rings startlingly true. Private groups were made, sides were chosen, and feuding took place. After Johnson & Johnson stepped into to "host" our board the more outspoken members found their accounts to be deleted. A move over to Facebook secret groups effectively ended any need to visit Baby Center unless you were truly bored and wanted to peruse the posts and wonder who the hell these newbies were. In the "safer" environment of a Facebook secret group people opened up about their personal lives even more. Many of the details about sex lives, babydaddy drama, abusing government assistance, and poor parenting choices in general caused unease in the ranks. Cue rifts, group splits etc. Becoming emotionally invested in a group has it's risks and benefits, but be aware, what you tell someone in an online forum automatically becomes the property of their memory, to be used how they wish. If you can't handle the heat, stay out of the fire.