March 2022 Moms
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Welcome to the March 2022 BMB! (I used this template from my last BMB)  If you're new to TB, we're excited to have you! Below you will find information on how the flow of BMBs work, guidelines and helpful links. 
Some links that you may find helpful:
How-To Guides:
-How to quote: Hit the "quote" at the bottom of the post you want to quote. You will be taken to the reply box with the quote set up already.
-How to tag: Add a "@" in front of the username of the person you are talking to.
-How to change your username: log in to TheKnot, hover over My Knot, and click Account Settings. If you are having issues doing it that way, you can email community@thebump.com and ask them to change your username. Give them a few suggestions just in case your top choice is taken. It may take up to 24 hours for the name to update.
-How to insert a spoiler box: click the drop down list arrow next to the paragraph symbol (third from the left, next to bold and italicize) and choose spoiler. It will insert a grey box, and everything that you type in there will go into the spoiler.

For the sake of board organization, here are some simple guidelines for posting threads:

DO: 
-Introduce yourself in the "Introductions!" thread 
-Feel free to start one of the weekly posts listed below: 
-Post your own thread if you have a confirmed loss (please use a TW)
-Post a thread that would apply to the entire community and doesn't fall into one of the categories for daily threads listed below (Ex: what to pack in your hospital bag, baby gear, etc)
-Comment, share advice and show support for your fellow bumpies; this is a two-way street, to get support, you must show it as well

DON'T:
-Start a thread asking about symptoms; please post this in the current weekly "symptoms thread" - this is helpful because it keeps the board from getting cluttered and makes it so we can all see the whole discussion in one thread, rather than having one thread about MS, one about food cravings, another about vivid dreams, etc.
-Ask the community if you are pregnant, it is against TOU
-Start a thread asking for relationship advice; a professional is better suited for this task
-Post pictures of your pregnancy test, this is also against TOU
-Post a thread that asks a question only applying to yourself unless you suspect you may be going through a MC
-Get bent out of shape if someone calls you out for not following these guidelines; if you expect to be part of a supportive board (which we are), you need to be able to take the time to learn the ins and outs of the board

Weekly threads suggestions! Feel free to add any others you think would be helpful/fun. 

MONDAY
-Monday Bitch Fest 
-Weekly (or monthly) symptoms thread 

TUESDAY
-TW Tuesday... TW = Twatwaffle. Who or what in your life is being a twatwaffle?
-High Risk Check-in

WEDNESDAY
-Hump day/bump day 
-PAIF check in 
-Weekly randoms 
-WTF Wednesday

THURSDAY
-PGAL check in
-Unpopular opinion UO
-Thankful Thursday's 

FRIDAY
-Flame Free Confessions 
-TTGP Grad check in 

MONTHLY
-What my pregnant self is eating/crying?               
-AMA mama check in 
-Ask a STM+

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

I've copy/pasted this from previous boards, and it seems to be the way that they are all organized, but of course we should feel free to tweak for our needs! For example, some boards do weekly ticker changes while others do weekly due date check-ins (ex, DD 1st week of March.). 

If anyone has a suggestion for other threads, please feel free to comment a suggestion.

Let's have a great BMB ladies!

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    @BumpAdmin Please Pin  :)
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    avh333avh333 member
    I'm so excited about this! I've been waiting for so long to be in a BMB and IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING! 

    Love your weekly thread ideas. Super pumped about those. I'm still relatively new to posting so thank you for all of this information because I definitely didn't know about all of those. 
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    @BumpAdmin Please sticky!
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    Are we doing ticker changes? Those were a norm in my last 2 Bmb’s but I haven’t seen anything like that here yet except the group check ins? I found it easier to get to know each other with them but I guess with not too many ladies on here anymore (what happened??) it would be more difficult? Also would anyone be open to gtky threads? It just seems so quiet here! 


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    @paytonpedro I was thinking maybe we just do whole group weekly check ins? It doesn't seem like there will be enough of us to do ticker changes 😭. But yes, let's do some GTKYs! We need to liven things up. I wonder why it is so slow though. My last BMB had tons more intros by now. 
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    @paytonpedro @kgg2241 yes to GTKYs and whole group weekly check-ins! We can always reorganize if/when more folks pop in. Most of the folks who introduced are due that first week or soon after, hoping an influx of mid/late March EDDs will show up soon.
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    @Panaceia yeah that sounds good! I used our rowing machine for the first time last night, so I'm feeling extra motivated 🏋️
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    Awesome! I'll start one tomorrow:)
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    It seems like we don't have a randoms thread right now. I'm happy to start one, but are there opinions about whether we want to do Wednesday randoms (lasting the week) or Monday randoms paired with weekend randoms?
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    @jessier19 I was thinking the sane thing yesterday! On my FB July'19 group we do one thread for Monday-Thursday and one thread for Friday-Sunday and it works really well. Maybe we could do this? Just a thought:)
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    @Panaceia yeah that was how my F19s did it, and it worked there. I guess that would be my preference, it was nice to see what people were up to on the weekend. 
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    I'm struggling with all of the abbreviations... I literally have no idea what most of them are
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    @alliewag94 There is a link in the first post of this thread to all the abbreviations:)
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    @Panaceia son of a gun you're right :) thanks!
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    @rachelredhead I was thinking about this the other day!
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    @rachelredhead I love that idea!
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    How do you join a “group”?? I have requested to join several but I don't guess I ever got accepted. 
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    @mandaleigh2015
    It’s based on your due date. All of us here are due in March, for example.
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    kgg2241kgg2241 member
    edited September 2021
    @mandaleigh2015 most groups are invite only. They usually start like this one and then move to a private group later. 
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