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October 2025 Babies
minnie_yoga_mama
member
How-To Guides:
For the sake of board organization, here are some simple guidelines for posting threads:
DO:
DON'T:
Weekly threads suggestions! Feel free to add any others you think would be helpful/fun.
MONDAY
Monday Bitch Fest
Weekly (or monthly) symptoms thread
Weekly check-in (how are you feeling, rants, raves, etc)
Weekly randoms
Welcome! ***READ FIRST!***
minnie_yoga_mama
member
Welcome to the October 2025 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 (ideas 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.
- Be respectful to each other
- Avoid one-off posts. In order to connect and get to know one another, it’s helpful for all of us to interact in the same threads!
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
- Post pictures of your pregnancy test, this is also against TOU
- Post a thread that asks a question only applying to yourself. Instead, ask your question in the “Great Big Question Thread”.
Weekly threads suggestions! Feel free to add any others you think would be helpful/fun.
MONDAY
Monday Bitch Fest
Weekly (or monthly) symptoms thread
Weekly check-in (how are you feeling, rants, raves, etc)
Weekly randoms
TUESDAY
GTKY ("Get to know you" posted with a thought-provoking question)
MONTHLY
What my pregnant self is eating/crying about?
Ask a STM+
GTKY ("Get to know you" posted with a thought-provoking question)
WEDNESDAY
Hump day/bump day
WTF Wednesday
THURSDAY
Hump day/bump day
WTF Wednesday
THURSDAY
PGAL check in
Unpopular opinion (UO)
Thankful Thursdays
Unpopular opinion (UO)
Thankful Thursdays
FRIDAY
Flame Free Confessions
Flame Free Confessions
What my pregnant self is eating/crying about?
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!
If anyone has a suggestion for other threads, please feel free to comment a suggestion, or just go ahead and post it yourself.
Let’s have a great BMB 😃
Re: Welcome! ***READ FIRST!***
In that group no one shared personal info on The Bump because it’s a public online forum, so anyone in the world can see your pictures, personal identifying info, IG handles, or whatever else you post. After we all got to know each other well, as our due dates approached, all of us who became close decided to migrate to a private FB group and then a WhatsApp group where we all learned about who we were personally. Now we’re all very close and still talk daily 🙂 I think the other BMB months have done a similar process as well!