New mom. Scared.

Re: New mom. Scared.

• luckywife10 member

  August 2018

  knottie9484dfffa1c995ed said:

  Hi, this is the only board the bump will let me post in.
  i took 3 home pregnancy test and they were all positive. I haven’t been to a doc yet for ultra sound or bloood work because I’m dumb, I have no idea what I’m doing

  Hi OP, welcome to the April board! Many of us have not had our first prenatal appointment either. Please read the thread labeled Board Organization (there is a lot of information about how this board is run and how to navigate) and then post in the Intro board to tell us about yourself. One-off posts are typically discouraged as they clutter the board. Take time to read through the threads and post in whatever daily threads are applicable to your situation. There are a lot of FTM here and everyone has questions (there is a thread for asking questions called Weekly questions). Hope you stick around!

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• bbbbcccceeee member

  August 2018

  Luckywife- I am confused by this rule. Are you saying that on the bump boards we are only allowed to have conversations as part of the long daily threads?  I enjoy the posts on different topics and I would hate if the rules here were that we are only allowed to post in one particular designated threads.  When I had my child in 2014, the bump boards were the best since we were able to post what we felt with questions on new posts. I have never heard of this before.  Please advise! The one-off posts do not bother me at all, and I think are welcome rather than daily huge threads so this way we can see the topics we are interested in engaging in.  

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• lyse01 member

  August 2018

  @bbbbcccceeee I don’t mean to speak for @luckywife10, but this is the general sense I have (which has been true since August 17 BMB opened, at least):
  
  - As a group, we want to talk about pretty much anything people want to talk about.
  - We’d like similar topics to be more or less contained to the same thread, in large part because 36 different threads about symptoms will push everything else off the front page and the search functionality for mobile Bump is...limited.
  - Pregnancy related topics that don’t fit neatly into any established thread are welcome to have a new thread - so, for instance, if someone wants to talk about nursery decoration, she should start that conversation. Non-pregnancy related topics probably belong in Randoms.
  - New people introducing themselves in individual threads, rather than the Introduction thread, can quickly drown out informational threads, especially in the next few weeks as people get positive tests and find the Bump. We’d rather have them see the great discussions here and get involved.
  
  Now, I totally get that sometimes you and I want to see what some of those questions are in the subject line rather than in a questions thread. I too am open to more one-off posts. But in general, I think the place to debate it is in the Board Organization thread, which newcomers hopefully read early on to get a sense of the rules we as a group have come together on.

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• bbbbcccceeee member

  August 2018

  @lyse01 thank you! I will post in the other thread on rules then to go over more. 
  
  I TOTALLY agree that we dont need 20,000 introductions and that should be in one thread, and also a symptom thread makes sense, but for the most part, I personally like that people can post a question they have and us be able to see the question easily in a new post! Maybe this is not the board for me then if this is the rules which is fine but this seems overly strict to me!  

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