Hi - I'm sorry you've been feeling frustrated with a lack of answers! Specialmom gave some great details. If you feel you've waited a while for an answer and haven't gotten it, please feel free to bump up your post so it gets more visibility. Sometimes this can help a post that was previously missed to get some visibility. If we can be of any assistance to you, please don't hesitate to let us know. We're always happy to help!
Not trying to pick in the least, I understand these posts get lost or overlooked. I have felt ignored on this app as wel.. but it seems as if only one of your posts didn't get a response. As for the post about pain, we all post on here hoping to hear similar cases or get results, but in my opinion You should always be contacting your ob in situations like that. We can't 100% accurately diagnose those things. I'm a ftm as well so I understand wanting opinions and help from other mommies and how scary it is.
Maybe try wording the questions clearly. Check to see if the same questions have already been posted recently, and then make the title of it stand out. Everyone on here tries to answer the questions they know the answers to. Not all of us know the answers. Alot of our answers are also our opinions and personal experiences. Maybe some of the questions people have asked arnt things some of us have experienced. It's also not a pickings favorites type things lol. This is an online forum. People post here from all over the world. No body knows each other personally so nobody is picking favorites. That's be silly to view it like that. I understand it can be frustrating not getting an answer right away or sometimes not at all. But like others have said, these forums move fast. People are posting things all the time and it pushes other posts down. Try to be a little more understanding. Also try to keep in mind that sometimes the questions people may ask are probably best left answered by doctors. I've personally avoided answering questions I know that i know nothing about because I don't want to give misleading or false responses. I know that I wouldn't want some answer just thrown out there when it comes to a serious question. Then also take into account that we all do have lives and I'm not on this app 24/7 to answer questions all day long.
Let's look at logistics here for a moment...
1. Most of your posts are in the January 2016 board. So your audience is limited to the women who are due that month.
2. Are you asking questions in all your posts?? Making a statement that you aren't dilated at 36 weeks doesn't warrant a response.
I ment to say ik same here lol
I'm same here and I new to this app thing so I'm not really sure how you do this
I'm sorry you've felt this way, quite a few ladies have their posts get lost in the forum. I agree with some pp's. Try commenting on your own question a few times if there's no answers, as this bumps it up on the forum and makes it more visible and also try posting on the other groups that are a few years older than this one. I find those sometimes are easier to get faster or more answers from. I hope your experience changes in this app, I know what you mean. Sometimes I get no answers also, but I just try again or post on a different age group.
Everytime I have a question which is rare cause I don't normally ask questions unless I don't know or I'm worries no one ever replies to me like I think this was for moms to help each other. Than I see someone else ask same questions as me and alot of people respond to them like really. Or questions that I dont think their so important like baby names and baby showers and stuff. Last time I ask that I had really bad pains could of be contractions I was 32 weeks and no one reply. I ask since I'm a first time mommy and just 18. Also because One time I thought they were contractions went to hospital and it was just Braxton something forgot the name. This last name that I ask I didn't went until next day and no one respon to help. And I was 2 cm dialated with real contractions but thanks god they gave me medicine to stop them and since than I been having so much pain. It really bothers me been ignored.
This is a very busy forum. Posts move from top to bottom quickly and it's not intentional if a question goes unanswered. It could be for one of the following reasons---- A. a question just like it was asked recently and posters may not comment again because they feel like they just did (sometimes it helps to scroll through the posts to see if there are questions just like yours to provide some help. B. people don't have the answer. This is a member to member community and people go off their own experience-- so if they don't know, they can't answer. C. the question is posted at the same time lots of other questions are posted and it slides down going unnoticed.
It's not personal. Lots of people come and go and generally, most people really don't know each other here. good luck
I swear I see a post like this once a day..
Its easier to talk in the older groups because this group pick who they want.
I swear I be feeling the same way !!!!!!!!
What do you need help with?