Welcome April 2017 Moms! - PLEASE READ FIRST!!!

KirstinH88

Some links that you may find helpful:

• What do all of those abbreviations mean?
• I want a ticker on my signature!
• Here's how to insert a GIF in your post

For those of you that are new to TB since you got your BFP, the threads below are standard threads to all boards. Anyone can start these threads, just please do not duplicate! Some work better if one person volunteers -- feel free to do so in the comments below! I'll list volunteers next to their chosen thread(s). If you do accidentally start a duplicate thread, that's a great opportunity to start a GIF party!

*****The community of this board encourages giving support as well as receiving it and prefers threads that benefit the whole rather than the individual.  A wide range of topics are covered in our regular weekly threads, and we also have two catch-all threads for questions/comments/discussions/announcements: “Pregnancy Chatter” (pregnancy/childcare) and “Randoms & Spam” (non-pregnancy/childcare).  

If you have a specific question you’d like answered for yourself or announcement about your situation, please post it in one of the weekly topics or the chatter threads.  The exception to this is confirmed loss - please update us if you are comfortable doing so in either your own thread (for which you will receive response notifications) or in an existing relevant thread (which you will not unless the responder directly tags you).

If there is a discussion for the community that would be better served in its own thread, feel free to post it!  A good example of this may be a GTKY (Get To Know You) question or, as we near April, a thread about what people are planning for their hospital go-bags.

Daily Threads: (please add the date to the thread title)

• Ticker Changes (when your weekly progression changes, you participate in that day. For example, if I will be 10 weeks on Friday, that's the day I participate).

MONDAY

• Monday Ticker Change (SDSwenson)
• Weekly Appointments (Taylor72)
• Weekly Randoms/Spam (TheJerilu)
• Weekly Pregnancy Chatter & Questions (TheJerilu)
• Meal Plan Monday (leslieknope)
• Monday Bitchfest (Taylor72)

TUESDAY

• Tuesday Ticker Change (Holzie)
• Twatwaffle (TW) Tuesday (ShelbyTaryn)
• First Time Mom Check-In (cookies754)
• GTKY (scorpiomer)
• High Risk Pregnancy Check-In (ArchyFlores)
• Moms of Multiples Check-In

WEDNESDAY

• Wednesday Ticker Change (schef070911)
• WTF Wednesday (ashleym112)
• HDBD (Hump Day, Bump Day) (Caressa1)
• PGAL Check-In (mrsstuessy)
• Second Time Mom+ Check-In (runningpenguin)
• Symptoms Thread (STM2017)

THURSDAY

• Thursday Ticker Change (allybadry)
• Unpopular Opinion (UO) Thursday (ladameperdue)
• Exercise/Fitness Check-In (schef070911)
• TTGP Grad Check-In (KirstinH88)
• What My Pregnant Self is Eating (KirstinH88)
• Why My Pregnant Self is Crying (Ekzerr)

FRIDAY

• Friday Ticker Change (blackberry1006)
• Flame Free Friday Confession (FFFC) (dannylion24)
• Five Things Friday (LittleChick2)
• Why My SO is an A-hole (Poison&Wine)
• Why My SO is Awesome (SDSwenson)

SATURDAY

• Saturday Ticker Change (mrsstuessy)

SUNDAY

• Sunday Ticker Change (pinkshades05)
• Stupid Question Sunday (LittleChick2)

Monthly Siggy Challenge: Beginning in September

Once we all get farther along, we will also have pinned threads for things like sex announcements and birth announcements.

KirstinH88

@BumpAdmin, @BumpCaitlin, @BumpTara Can you please sticky this one and unsticky the previous one?

Also, April moms, there are still a ton of threads that could use someone as the poster. If you would like to post a thread, please let me know and I will add you to the list. Otherwise, if you have not seen a specific thread be posted, feel free to start it up!

mrsstuessy

Thanks, @KirstinH88 I was just trying to put this together!

mrsstuessy

@BumpAdmin @BumpCaitlin can we get this stickied? 

KirstinH88

All the thanks to @leslieknope! I just copied and pasted!

TheJerilu

@KirstinH88
If we're going to repost the intro, can we re-add the verbiage about the community consensus regarding creating threads vs using existing threads?

Without this blurb, attempts to organize will be for naught.

ETA: Also, can that include an asterisk for creating loss threads - people are welcome to create those if they unfortunately need to and I don't want people to feel like they can't.

mrsstuessy

Definitely agree with @TheJerilu.

KirstinH88

@Jerilu Do you have a blurb that you would like me to add in there. I wasn't around for I guess what seemed like an intense debate on all this.

schef070911

Thank you ladies for setting this all up! It's been a crazy day at work but when I have a free few minutes I'll look around to see if I can help. 

Dannylion24

Thanks, everyone! 

leslieknope

Put me down for meal plan Mondays. I'll set a reminder.

Dannylion24

I can do FFFC, but I'm mobile and haven't figured out how to gif so the entry will probably be kinda lame-o! Also if I forget I won't get offended at all if someone saves my butt and posts for me! 

ShelbyTaryn

Put me down for twatwaffle tuesday....  

LittleChick2

I can do stupid question Sunday

KirstinH88

Wow you guys! Loving the support! Thank you for taking on a thread!

asjas15

@BumpAdmin @BumpTara @BumpCaitlin can we please sticky this! Thank you

Caressa1

I could do HDBD thread each week. My last BMB started doing them when we were all about this far along.

Poison&Wine

@KirstinH88 I would love to post a weekly thread! I'm trying to be more involved this time. What threads do you need someone to take over? 

KirstinH88

@Poison&Wine The thread is updated, so any that do not have a name already next to them are up for the taking!

ashleym112

I can take WTF Wednesday if its still open

STM2017

I'll do Symptoms Thread. And if I forget, please someone start it! I won't be insulted!

mrsstuessy

@Caressa1 I think it would be better until some of us are at least to 12 weeks, which is when your uterus technically starts showing. You can definitely do it then, though. We have about 4 weeks to go until then. 

Dannylion24

I feel like I could start a post called hump day bloat day right now! Argh! @mrsstuessy

STM2017

@Dannylion24, lol!!! Mine would just be "hump day fat day" because I will always have that tummy pudge after having DS. No more flat tummy here!!!

Caressa1

I can definitely wait a few weeks before starting the first one if everyone thinks that's best!

Dannylion24

@STM2017 right there with ya, girlie!

allybadry

I'll do Thursday ticker change if we want to make it official, unless you want it @Beckyf321
I think we  both tried to get it going last week and inadvertently confused people...

Poison&Wine

@KirstinH88 Do you think I could have a weekly thread for griping about your significant other? Mainly over the fact that they just don't understand us pregnant gals. Lol. My so is great, but they had a thread in my last birth month club and it cracked me up reading those lady's stories. I'll call it, "Partner Pandemonium" lol  

allybadry

@poison&wine @KirstinH88 or 'Why my SO is an a-hole..." I think its not a bad idea. I remember my last bmb had so many posts griping about the jerky things the men in our lives say or do. All we can really do is say "yep, sounds like an ass" but sometimes you just need to vent.

Poison&Wine

@allybadry Exactly! 

Poison&Wine

Also, @allybadry, I like that name better lol 

KirstinH88

  

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TheJerilu

What do people think about staggering some of the weekly topics throughout the week?

Weekly Appointments, Randoms, and Chatter would definitely stay Monday as they're more time dependent, but we could probably move the other check-ins and fun topics on different days.

This might help reduce some of the info dump on Mondays and give people more of a reason to pop in each day.

clickclackmoo

TheJerilu said:

What do people think about staggering some of the weekly topics throughout the week?

Weekly Appointments, Randoms, and Chatter would definitely stay Monday as they're more time dependent, but we could probably move the other check-ins and fun topics on different days.

This might help reduce some of the info dump on Mondays and give people more of a reason to pop in each day.

Yes please! I think this would help a lot.

belocin

TheJerilu said:

What do people think about staggering some of the weekly topics throughout the week?

Weekly Appointments, Randoms, and Chatter would definitely stay Monday as they're more time dependent, but we could probably move the other check-ins and fun topics on different days.

This might help reduce some of the info dump on Mondays and give people more of a reason to pop in each day.

I think that's a great idea!

STM2017

@TheJerilu, 100% yes! Mondays seem very heavy right now and then there is not as much activity the rest of the week it feels like. I volunteered to do Symptoms Thread. Happy to move that to another day

schef070911

Not sure if I'm qualified haha, but I can do "Fit Mamas Check-in" weekly.  Will do it on another day - maybe Thursdays?

KirstinH88

I will work on making these changes when I get into work. Mobile bumping has been spotty for me.

holzie-2

KirstinH88  I will do Tues Ticker Change if you need someone for that.  Also, can we have a multiples thread?  Doesn't need to be weekly as I'm not sure how many of us there are, maybe monthly?

KirstinH88

@Holzie I will put you on for the multiple thread. Not sure if someone already volunteered for Tuesday. @TheJerilu, maybe? I'll have to check. I would do the multiples post every week, but if you realize there aren't many of you, and the need is not there, then you MOMs can decide what timeframe works best.