How did you hear about girlmom?

Google.com (you can find EVERYTHING there)

I was just looking around udrring a pregnancy scare (back when they where "scares" instead of "well...maybe it wouldn't be so bads"

I've leaned alot and met alot of great people here....I'm glad I stumbled across it.

--Kris :D

A good friend of mine pointed me in this direction while I was pregnant, I didn't get the guts to register/post until after she was born though.

My mom found it and told me about it.

you look too young to be a mom - that book

i read about it in there...

I found out from Julie, back when the boards were orange. I only read the features then, however.

I had a pregnancy scare, and was searching online trying to find personal stories of what its really like to be a young mother, and found Julie's site, and found GM through there. Turned out I wasn't pregnant, but I stuck around.

I believe I found it through scarletteen.com. I found that through the iam4teens.com (which is down shut down)...

i also googled it back when i was pregnant with my daughter. i also didnt get up the nerve to post until after she was born. but im so glad i found it then as the info was sooo important to me during those first months of pregnancy

I dont remember the name, but it was some forum and an adult mentioned that girl-mom was a great place for young mothers.

I was about 2 months pregnant I think, and I found it just by googling different things...I was looking to see if there was a pregnancy forum for young mothers.

I spent months googling different combinations of "young" "mama" and "austin" and similar words. All I got back was articles about "the teen pregnancy rate" and other crap. Then, sometime this summer I think, I googled "bookwoman" (a feminist bookstore in Austin) and my results led me to the girlmom mainpage. It's funny how I never found this site when I was looking for it, but as soon as I gave up I just happened upon it.

yay, i see me mentioned! people STILL tell me they get to girlmom through my geeky little teen pregnancy webpage, i can't believe it!

i got here by starting up that geeky little site when i was about five or so months pregnant back in spring of 2000. alli, who was 17 at the time with an 18 month old cade, thought i seemed like i had a lot of potential to be totally awesome and took me under her wing...sending me cloth diapers, giving me tips and support and a ton of guestbook comments. i wonder if they're still there... she kept telling me to come to girlmom, but it took me awhile. GM was much smaller then, with only a handful of active posters. i can't remember when i started as a moderator but i did it for a while, until a year or so ago, i think. heh, it's all a blur.

hilary, did you ever meet alli at bookwoman? she worked there up until she died. she would have been the employee with short-ish hair dyed red, very talkative.

I was at some pregnancy info site and went to the forums, and there was this HUGE arguement about abortion, and someone chimed in and said for all the pro-choice people, there's a site called girlmom.com that won't be full of anti-choice assholes. I'm glad because I probably wouldn't have found it otherwise... I love it here.

I found it through scarleteen.com when i thought i was pregnant, and i was so i stuck around

I found girlmom when I thought I might be pregnant, and I was searching for some reassurance. That seems like forever ago.

I spent years searching on yahoo for "teen moms" "young moms", etc. Finally, I found girlmom. Much, much too late IMO. I really wish I could have found it back when I was 16 and pregnant with my first.

i did a google search for parenting advice for young mothers..and this site was one of the many results

When I was going to be in the play

No, I don't think I did. I lived in georgetown and had no car, so I didn't go to bookwoman much until this fall when I moved to Austin.

My friend Ginger got me inti Hipmama back when there were forums and it linked to this site (old orange boards when Jen & Heather & Alli & Julie were mods)

My sister told me about when i was 4 or 5 weeks pregnant. Back in Sep.

A good friend told me about this site when I was about 2 months pregnant.
I was going through a really rough time...and really needed advice. I registered here right away and never left. I love this site

I stumbled upon this site while searching the web several years back (at least.. I think it was back in '02).. at that point I was caring for a friend's child for extended periods of time (and later had her for nearly 2 months while her mama served some jail time).. Anways, I was looking for a place which would provide me with answers to my questions and nonjudgmental support given my "nontraditional parenting role".. I wasn't real active back then, but once I found out I was pregnant I became more active..

Oh.. and did the boards used to be purple at one point in time?? Everybody keeps mentioning "orange boards".. I think I may VAGUELY recall that.. but I swear thay were also purple at some point..

When I was pregnant I was incredably lonely. But for some reason it didn't hit me that I could make friends on the net to talk with about being pregnant. I only searched things like pregnancy symptoms, fetal development and pictures and tummy pages (I wanted to compare). I did a lot of reading of the WTEWYE book and many others. It wasn't until my son was like 6 months old that I stumbled across this site while I looked up "young mothers" or something like that on google. I lurked around the site for probebly one day and read everything I could. This site was so much different from any other. It was very controlled in a way. You weren't allowed to offend, so therefore I felt safe expressing myself. It was a place where prejudice and descrimination weren't tollerated in the least. Thats what really stuck me to this site. I guess I didn't ever think of making friends on the net previously because you just don't know what some asshole is going to say to you.

I used to go to this "daily confessions" website. I would get a kick out of these people confessing to the funny things they did. It had some christian stuff that I ignored to get to the humor. Every now and then a girl would confess to having an abortion, and she'd get totally slammed. Maybe that put me off of posting anywhere. I always wanted to tell these posters "girlmom.com" but I was afraid of attracting these anti-choice people to this site where they could hurt woman who really need the support. I would hate for someone to come on here and make a rude comment, and get banned, but not before someone actually read the post and was hurt baddly by it.

So I read as much as I could here. Learned all about what is ok to say and what is not, and about a day later when I realised I really wanted to reply to what others were saying, i signed up. I sure didn't take me long. :wink:

It was posted on a parentsplace.com board as a suggestion to me when I made a post about why I couldn't find more moms like me. Thank heavens, because parentsplace SUCKED!!

I read the Mother Trip and fell in LOVE with Girl Mom. I'm in the process of screening shirts that say "Kick Ass Girl Mom" and a baby one that says I "heart" my girl mom.

I was 19 and around 5 mos pg...sitting at my parents house depressed and trying not to cry while skimming through my sister's YM magazine. They had a few pages of influential women and there in the lower corner was a young Alli and baby Cade w/ a sentence or two about Girlmom. I registered and started unlearning that afternoon on those orange/white boards.
Kind of makes me laugh now to think i found Alli and Girlmom through YM magazine! :lol:

I found this site years ago in google...can't remember what I typed in I think it was teen mom or young moms or I don't know...I was looking for advice because I wanted to have a baby..yep I was ttc...but it wasn't until years later (now) that I actually joined . .