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Mumsnet's fans

"And log on to mumsnet.com for an excellent support network of mothers, where you can chat online and will find empathy and advice from those who have been where you are now"

Dr Tanya Byron, The Times, October 2006
 

"As most of you will know, the wonderful Mumsnet.com has an excellent and very active Special Needs discussions board"

India Knight, Isn't She Talking Yet? The Times October 2006

"Mumsnet.com is a great site"

David Cameron, chatting to Mumsnetters, March 2008

Latest press

Mumsnet's full of wit, smarts, opinion and vim. It takes for granted that you can be as interested in politics as in weaning methods, as preoccupied by the Middle East as you are by making a really good Hallowe’en costume. The Times 1 November 2009

Baby names: Is he a Hugo or a Jack? The Times 8 September 2009

Pregnant? Read this advice. Guardian 2 September 2009

Half of all pregnant women will refuse swine flu jab Guardian 1 September 2009

Half of all pregnant women 'will refuse swine flu vaccine'  Daily Telegraph 1 September 2009

Family values return, thanks to the internet Sunday Times 9 August 2009

Doctors should not decide when to stop treating babies, say parents Daily Telegraph, 29 June 2009

There must be more to motherhood The Times, 28 June 2009

Mumsnet's messageboards: a snapshot of modern family life The Independent, 22 June 2009

Best websites for holiday essentials The Times, 18 March 2009

Top 20 links: ways the web has changed the world Claudine Beaumont and Matt Warman, Daily Telegraph, 12 March 2009

Mumsnet: are you being unreasonable? The Times, 14 February 2009

How to get the best from Mumsnet Isabel Berwick, Financial Times, 7 February 2009

If it's quiet, panic: a brief guide to surviving life with a toddler Guardian, 30 January 2009

2008

"The internet sensation"  Independent, 28 December 2008

"Research by the parenting website Mumsnet... shows a huge pent-up demand for more flexible working"  The Guardian, October 2008

"Miscarriage: must doctors make our grief worse?" Joanna Moorehead, The Times, October 2008

"Thousands of highly intelligent women let loose online to enjoy caustic, no-holds-barred conversation" Times, October 2008

"Half-term holidays 'cost up to 80pc more'" Caroline Gammell, The Telegraph, May 2008

"Blogging: mum's the wired word" Tamsin Kelly, The Telegraph, May 2008

"Internet mums: help within site" Sarah Ebner, The Telegraph, April 2008

"Supermarket stampede as women slap £2.49 "baby bottom" butter on their faces" James Tozer, Daily Mail, April 2008

"The two main selling points of Mumsnet are its potent community spirit and its humour" Caitlin Moran, The Times, March 2008

"The women on Mumsnet are amazing - smart, funny and full of ideas." Daily Telegraph, March 2008

Mumsnet's Body Image Survey, Sunday Telegraph, March 2008

"Mumsnet is also often described as a lifeline by mothers who feel isolated." Amelia Hill Observer, March 2008

"Good old parenting will keep the online bogeymen at bay" Justine Roberts, The Guardian, March 2008

"They are brilliant on Mumsnet. They know everything. If you wanted to know how
soon you could breastfeed after taking an E, someone on Mumsnet could probably tell you." Zoe Williams, February 2008 

2007

"There is a different tone on Mumsnet. It’s not pink or fluffy, and it can be quite combative at times." The Economic Times,
November 2007

Mumsnet's Modern Motherhood Survey, Sunday Telegraph, November 2007 

Mumsnet is the most popular and the most famous networking website Sarah Womack, Daily Telegraph, October 2007

"Then I read a tip on Mumsnet and we've never looked back" Katie Tait Daily Telegraph, August 2007

"Online parenting sites are enjoying a boom...But Mumsnet is the daddy...." The Times, July 2007

"There are lots of mums on Mumsnet who've chosen to lower their living standards and opt out of the workplace altogether." Justine Roberts, Daily Telegraph, July 2007

"Mumsnet.com, a community website offering advice on parenting and family issues, hosts the UK's most active talkboards for women....As one poster writes 'it's like having a million big sisters who are there all the time and never get fed up of you pestering them.'" Red magazine, July 2007

"Mumsnet’s role in the Madeleine McCann advert affair has shown the muscle of parenting forums..." The Times, 5 July 2007, Harriet Lane

"Alice Miles bemoans the lack of women in public debate in the Times - why are all the news pages filled with men when websites like Mumsnet are full of intelligent women discussing "nannies", she wonders before calling on Mumsnet... Justine Roberts, The Guardian, Comment is Free, May 2007

"I would love to see Mumsnet and the other leading women’s websites leading the debate." Alice Miles, The Times, May 2007

"They (parents) favoured the Mumsnet model of an independent online information and discussion forum separate from the government." The Guardian, Comment is Free, March 2007

"To my mind, the Internet parenting behemoth is still absolutely one of the best websites for travel advice.." The Times, March 2007

"And judging by the number of conversations on Mumsnet about which pushchair to plump for, I am not alone." Justine Roberts The Guardian, January 2007

"On www.mumsnet.com, entire conversation threads are dedicated to this thorny issue" Amelia Hill The Observer, January 2007 

2006

"I cannot see how the government can improve on Mumsnet" Janice Turner The Times, December 2006

Mumsnet is  "one big hug, with all the upsides and downsides of a coffee morning" The Times, August 2006

"Harriet Harman "will also promise to create a website for parents... modelled on the success of Mumsnet..." Gaby Hinsliff, The Observer, November 2006

"Carrie and Justine are the Trinny and Susannah of parenting" The Times, November 2004

“Log on to the talk section of Mumsnet and you will be there for hours” The Times, April 2004 

Gina Ford vs Mumsnet

"I found myself once again ignoring the children so I could log on to Mumsnet" Josephine Wall, The Guardian, October 2006

"On Mumsnet even seemingly innocuous subjects such as "Should you feed your child grapes when going round the supermarket?” can provoke impassioned debates" Justine Roberts, The Sunday Times, August 2006

"Mumsnet is a parenting phenomenon whose popularity is fuelled by home access to the internet and the decline of the extended family" Sunday Telegraph, August 2006

"We could lose our home over a young mum's joke" Alison Roberts, Evening Standard, 27 February 2007

"Gina Ford, the baby-raising guru known as the Queen of Routine because of her strict rearing methods, has hit back at critics..." The Herald, February 2007

"Ms Ford has demanded a public apology from the parenting website Mumsnet"   Jeevan Vasagar, The Guardian, February 2007

"As the baby-raising guru prepares to sue her many critics, a fascinating insight into her childhood" Elizabeth Day, The Mail on Sunday, 25 February 2007

"A row has erupted between parenting guru and bestselling author, Gina Ford, and Mumsnet, a leading online parenting community..." Child and Adolescent Mental Health Bulletin, September 2006

"The curious case of Mumsnet.com, a community site for parents, versus Gina Ford" The Observer, 20 August 2006

"She (Gina Ford) is currently getting very strict with a popular website, Mumsnet.com" Rod Liddle, The Sunday Times, 13 August 2006

"Ford declared herself so deeply distressed by complete and utter strangers' badinage that she...tried to shut down a site that 250,000 people use each month to seek and offer advice and help to parents" India Knight, The Sunday Times, 13 August 2006

"Gina Ford, the maternity nurse who rose to fame by selling parents strict routines for babies, is trying to discipline a mothers' website, Mumsnet" Camilla Cavendish,  The Times, 12 August 2006

"Gina Ford threw a tantrum and launched her bizarre attempt to shut down the Mumsnet website" Ben MacIntyre, The Times, 11 August 2006

"Mumsnet.com, a website used by thousands of mothers to pass on tips and advice, has this week been forced by Gina Ford's lawyers to remove its negative postings about the childcare expert" Lorna Bradbury, The Daily Telegraph, 10 August 2006

"Gina Ford is a respectable baby expert, not a Middle Eastern terrorist" Catherine Bennett, The Guardian, 10 August 2006

"Gina Ford, 'the Queen of Routine', the so-called childcare guru and author of The Contented Little Baby, is definitely not a happy bunny" Yvonne Roberts, The Independent, 10 August 2006

'Childcare guru Gina Ford says she is not seeking to close down the Mumsnet website" The Register, 10 August 2006, Lucy Sherriff

Mumsnet has asked users to avoid any mention of Ford but commented that doing so was "a bit like barring discussion of Manchester United from a football phone-in" Damien Whitworth The Times, 9 August 2006

"Baby expert Gina Ford has threatened legal action over "gross personal attacks" about her on a website for mothers" Denise Winterman, BBC News Magazine, 9 August 2006

"Ford has become so irate about being criticised on a parenting website, Mumsnet, that her lawyers have demanded that it should be disabled because it is 'defamatory'" Sarah Ebner, The Times, 9 August 2006

"Gina Ford is threatening to sue UK parenting site Mumsnet and its ISP" The Register, 9 August 2006, Lucy Sherriff

"A high-profile childcare expert has become embroiled in a dispute with a parenting website after her lawyers demanded its closure amid allegations of defamatory comments" Dan Sabbagh, The Times, 8 August 2006

"Miss Ford claims messages posted by users of Mumsnet.com amount to defamation and wants the site taken off the Internet" Gordon Rayner, Daily Mail, 8 August 2006

"Gina Ford, the baby expert whose advice is either loved or loathed by parents, has demanded the closure of a popular internet site for mothers after it published what she claims to be defamatory comments about her" The Daily Telegraph, 8 August 2006, Sally Pook

"Lawyers acting for the author and former maternity nurse have moved to "disable" www.Mumsnet.com - a site run part-time by seven mothers" Hugh Muir, The Guardian, 8 August 2006

"In just a few years, Mumsnet has become a lifeline for 60,000 mothers looking for advice on everything from how to deal with a miscarriage to childcare and going back to work..." Terri Judd, The Independent, 8 August 2006

"Childcare guru Gina Ford has threatened to shut down an Internet site used by 250,000 mothers because of a series of allegedly libellous attacks made against her..." Gulf Times, 8 August 2006

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