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August 2016 Moms
bluesky24
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Proposed board organization - up for debate!
bluesky24
member
Hey y'all - thanks for all of your input yesterday...I took everyone's feedback from yesterday and tried to organize it a bit (this list is also borrowed from our friends on the May 2016 board, thanks gals!)
Also - A lot of people expressed opinions that we want to keep this board welcoming and to keep the snark light (light, not "non-existent"). Pregnancy is an exciting, scary time, and we're all a bit vulnerable - so I'm in favor and think it'll help keep the group positive and supportive. And we can still do random posts and threads if people want to, of course - we don't have to be too scripted!!
Weekly Threads: these will be posted on Mondays and will run the course of the week. Would be great if someone wanted to own one or more of these to post every week.
-Symptoms thread
-Weekly randoms
-Fit Mama Check In
- PGAL check in
-What's for Dinner
- GIF parties - whenever you want to post, these are always fun
Daily Threads:
-Ticker change! (This would be a change from what we're doing now which is just a status update, and as many said, it might be kinda repetitive as the days go on)
Weekday Threads: happen once a week on the same day (please add date to thread title)
-Monday Bitchfest
-twatwaffle Tuesday!
-AW Wednesday (Attention Whore - for you to brag about whatever it is you want to brag about, guilt free)
-Unpopular Opinion Thursday
-Flame Free Friday Confessions
-HDBD (hump day bump day) will be added Wednesdays once they're necessary!
Stickies for later:
Nursery pictures/ideas
Sex announcements
Birth announcements.
Anything to add? Change? Is this too much? Too little? Once this is in a good place, we'll get Bump Admin to post it as a sticky.
Also - A lot of people expressed opinions that we want to keep this board welcoming and to keep the snark light (light, not "non-existent"). Pregnancy is an exciting, scary time, and we're all a bit vulnerable - so I'm in favor and think it'll help keep the group positive and supportive. And we can still do random posts and threads if people want to, of course - we don't have to be too scripted!!
Weekly Threads: these will be posted on Mondays and will run the course of the week. Would be great if someone wanted to own one or more of these to post every week.
-Symptoms thread
-Weekly randoms
-Fit Mama Check In
- PGAL check in
-What's for Dinner
- GIF parties - whenever you want to post, these are always fun
Daily Threads:
-Ticker change! (This would be a change from what we're doing now which is just a status update, and as many said, it might be kinda repetitive as the days go on)
Weekday Threads: happen once a week on the same day (please add date to thread title)
-Monday Bitchfest
-twatwaffle Tuesday!
-AW Wednesday (Attention Whore - for you to brag about whatever it is you want to brag about, guilt free)
-Unpopular Opinion Thursday
-Flame Free Friday Confessions
-HDBD (hump day bump day) will be added Wednesdays once they're necessary!
Stickies for later:
Nursery pictures/ideas
Sex announcements
Birth announcements.
Anything to add? Change? Is this too much? Too little? Once this is in a good place, we'll get Bump Admin to post it as a sticky.
Re: Proposed board organization - up for debate!
TTC since November 2015
BFP #1 12/17/15 - MC 1/28/16
BFP #2 4/22/16 - EDD 12/30/16
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I know some people were concerned about people jumping down the throats of people who post one-off posts or not allowing one-off posts. I don't think that's what we're trying to do, we're just trying to de-clutter the board a bit. If you have a topic that doesn't really fit in to any of the posts then feel free to start a new post! I think that a lot of the posts right now could fall into one of these categories.
I think people also expressed concerns about not being able to get to know others as well with structured posts. I disagree with that, but also if we have a bunch of get to know you posts then that's a lot more spontaneous and gives us good opportunity to get to know everyone better.
I think that as we get established and are further along this will come easier - we'll know each other better and we'll know the board layout better, but we need to start somewhere.
I also agree that once we hit a certain point we should switch to ticker change posts.
Me (32) DH (34) | |
BFP #1 4/5/12 | Natural m/c on 4/18/12 (6w1d)
BFP #2 8/23/12 | DS born 5/3/13
BFP #3 12/6/15 | DD born 8/23/16
BFP #4 2/22/19 | EDD 10/28/19
BFP #2 8/22/12 | EDD 5/5/13 | DS1 born 5/9/13
BFP #3 4/25/15 | EDD 1/7/16 | MMC 7/2/15 @ 13w1d | D&E 7/8/15
BFP #4 12/9/15 | EDD 8/22/16 | DS2 born 5/18/16 at 26w2d
Just keep swimming.
I second this! Something about body changes, and what clothes to buy to accommodate the bloat, weight gain, etc.
I agree with all of the suggestions.
I like all of the suggestions. Another thread idea might be a periodical "Questions for Been There, Done That (BTDT) Moms"-- a place where FTMs can post their questions and experienced moms can provide answers.
BFP #1: 08/17/2012 DD1 born 05/01/2013
BFP #2: 07/31/2015 M/C 09/23/2015 (11.5 weeks)