And, the survey is online, the ad is in Brain Child magazine (released May 28), and Brain Child has placed a linking ad on its web site.
If you tried to link to the survey through the BC web site and could not find the ad, I’m sorry. They rotate their ads on the site and sometimes you need to hit “refresh” to see them all. If I had known about this before the survey started, I would have mentioned it in the ad.
I’m going on 14 weeks pregnant now, which means I’m probably in the highest-energy phase of the pregnancy, and I plan to use it well. Currently, my plan is to leave the survey online until July 15th. Hopefully by then I’ll have a good response. I’m not letting myself worry about this yet, although there are only 4 respondents so far. I can always let it run longer, if needed. Brain Child has been so helpful on this. I really wanted to find some way to locate women who were not only mothers but who really identified strongly as mothers. I contacted all sorts of publications and chat groups, and received only canned or no responses. IVillage even wrote me a cease and desist letter for contacting chat group leaders regarding the possibility of gaining their support in an approach to IVillage. I was pretty much at the point of giving up and trying another project altogether when I thought of BC.
It was sort of obvious, now that I look back. A mom I met and interviewed while developing the survey recommended BC to me as something that “saved her life” after she had spent her first 2 years at home as a SAHM to an as-yet undiagnosed child with autism spectrum disorder. I subscribed immediately, and felt right at home reading it.
I’m going to close for now. But I am making notes to myself in my date book, right now, to update this blog every Thursday from now on. Next week, I think I will post about what my reasons for doing this survey were. So please come back if you like!
