Imamother.com

My friend directed me to the website ImaMother.com, and I'm so excited. It's the ultimate frum girly-talk site, and who can get enough of that! Think of it as a hashkafa.com for women-- brilliant! Here is a blurb from the 'about us' page so you can get a better idea of the purpose of this site:

Welcome to our website. I, Yael, together with my husband, developed Imamother.com because we felt that there was a need for a website geared to frum Jewish women and mothers.

This website was born after I went searching in the vast expanses of the internet for some advice about raising my kids. I looked at the Jewish forums of numerous parenting websites, but there just wasn’t anything relevant to me, as a frum, Lubavitch woman. Again I left my computer feeling like there was just a blank area where there should have been a place where I could share my thoughts and worries. I was looking for a place where I could meet more women just like me. I wanted a spot where my friends and I could go to share stories about our day. I wanted a website just like all the others but with a very important difference. I wanted it to be relevant to me as a married woman and as a frum mother. I wanted a place where there would be information about topics that are important to me. And where I could get advice from other frum mothers about whatever issue was bothering me at the moment.

I searched and searched for this website, and when I found none, I decided to meet that need myself. I felt frum mothers all across the world deserved a place to connect, chat, share advice about raising kids and dealing with our husbands, and talk about issues that are important to us. Since my husband knows how to develop websites and enjoys doing it, we agreed to start this website together. He would take care of the technical aspects and I would moderate Imamother.com. Since we started we have undergone many changes. We even had a name change. We accepted advice from friends and family. We added links and removed others when we saw people didn’t use them.

Slowly, slowly, with a lot of hard work, we made this website into what it is today. And we are still looking to improve our site. We want women to feel that there is a place online where we can connect and unite, give and receive advice from other frum Jewish mothers, and learn new things. I hope this website will unite all Jewish mothers across the world. Let us all be part of one online community.

The shame is that you can't just browse their forums to satisfy your inner voyeur. First they require all readers to sign up and register by filling out a questionnaire that includes questions such as, what are the side effects of having your period, what is the brocha for mikvah, and what shul are you affiliated with. The purpose of the questionnaire is to weed out any applicants that are not frum married women, though I'm sure most men could easily answer the exclusively female questions. But I dutifully filled out the form and now I await word back from their moderator who will let me know if I'm female enough and frum enough to join their site. Oh gosh, I hope I pass.