Dang it makes me kind of sad this bowl is so dead. When I had my first baby, I came here to ask all my middle-of- the-night anxious new parent questions during pregnancy and postpartum.

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lol same. A part of me was like do they know I’m no longer pregnant 🤣 since I had my baby it’s been kinda quiet.

Me too!

Maybe asking AI all the anxious middle of the night qs now?

Nah it was also the community aspect. Despite anonymous, so human.

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Any recommendations for good forums anywhere (Reddit, etc)? Localized forums even better (e.g., would love recommendations for starting the daycare enrollment process in my city)

Reddit is fine if you want anonymous questions, but the answers may be all over the map. I liked fishbowl because there tended to be a lot of higher educated people on it that were more similar to me.

I'd recommend finding Facebook mom groups for your area. Depending on the group you can still ask mostly anonymous (admins can see you). But can be great for local recommendations.

For daycares though, I found a weird amount of daycare workers/family of daycare owners spamming their daycare when people ask. They may be moms too, but feels ick when wanting less biased opinions. So watch out for that.

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