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User:pregnant (429578)
The Pregnant Community
Theme:preconception, conception, pregnancy, labor, birth, newborns
Website:List of Tags
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About:There is a lot of information here. To help you find what you need, we've created a table of contents!




Before you become an active member within the community please make sure you have read and understand all of the community's rules and recommendations. BY BECOMING A MEMBER OF [info]pregnant, YOU ARE STATING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND AGREED TO ADHERE TO THE COMMUNITY RULES OF CONDUCT.



This community is for those of us who are pregnant, want to be pregnant, or are just looking for a place to vicariously live through other pregnant people. Whether you are planning on continuing your pregnancy or not, you are welcome to join. Please note that 'Am I pregnant?' queries and TTC questions probably fit better in other communities.



Remember- there are NO "stupid" questions. This is a great place to talk about problems and concerns, share joys, and babble on about babies and breasts and stretchmarks, when everyone else you know is tired of hearing about it! Members of any age, race, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, gender, etc., are welcome here. Please feel free to post an intro and jump into conversations. Welcome everyone, we're glad you're here.





This community has a few rules and recommendations:

1. Be respectful
  • Do not use racial/ethnic/social slurs (no comments based on sexual preferences or physical/mental capabilities, etc.)

  • Do not call each other names

  • Do not insult someone's intelligence

  • No anti-choice commentary. Abortion, breastfeeding/formula feeding, circumcision, etc. are sensitive topics, and each of us is entitled to his or her own opinion. But this community is not the place to debate it. If someone mentions terminating a pregnancy, or formula feeding, or circumcising, and you do not support that choice - respond respectfully or ignore their post without commenting. We do ask that you use discretion when posting sensitive topics, and consider using a cut while respecting that some readers may not feel comfortable with the subject matter.
Be aware that anti-choice commentary will be frozen or screened.
It can be hard to realize the weight of our words and we all need to work on understanding that.


2. Font face/size/color
DO NOT change the font face size or color.
We're glad you can use LJ's rich text editor (or know basic HTML), but please leave the font alone. What looks amazing to you will probably bother just about everyone else. Don't get insulted when people ask you to change the font back to the default settings- just do it.


3.Comments & Posts
No deleting. No screening. No freezing.
OWN YOUR WORDS! If you don't want to receive comments in your email inbox, you may disable THAT option in your post, but nothing else. This is a community and we expect our members to embrace that ideal by not shielding what's being said from one another.

Mods reserve the right to freeze and screen comments that break community rules, are offensive, or are part of a flame war. If a thread is frozen, that indicates that the topic is not to be revisited in another comment or post.


4.Tags
We have an active tag system in place in this community.
To learn more about tags, see the LJ FAQs on the topic. Please choose a tag from the list of existing tags at the time you make a post. Please note that moderators reserve the right to add/remove/modify tags at any time.
For a list of tags already in use, see here.


5. Profanity
Please avoid profanity. In certain cases, mild usage may be okay, but we still need to be respectful. If you are unsure, put it behind a cut with a warning for those who are sensitive or who are at work.


6. Advertisements and Promotions
  • Post advertisements only once - pregnancy-related only. Avoid excessive and frequent advertisements.

  • No community promos without permission. For permission, email the moderators at pregnant.mods@gmail.com.
If you are unsure, run it past the mods first.


7. Advice
If you ask for advice, be aware that you may get advice that differs from what you want to hear; conversely, if you give advice, please be aware that your advice may not be received the way you want it to.

Also, know that even if you don't explicitly ask for advice, some may be given. This is human nature in a community setting. This advice should be given constructively, and received as such. If you don't like the advice, ignore it.


8. Photos
ALL photos need to be behind a cut WITH a description of what they are, so members can decide if they should look. This is not because we don't want to see your beautiful bellies and babies, but not all the members have high speed internet access and photos can take a long time to load otherwise.

Tasteful nude shots are okay. Nursing photos are okay. Birth shots are okay, unless there is a baby coming out. Please don't post spread eagle shot of your vulva. There are plenty of communities devoted to that (We don't think that this is a problem here at all, but some members had asked about it in the past.).

If nudes are posted, put them behind a cut WITH A WARNING (ie: "nude/graphic photos behind cut, not work safe").
Information on lj-cuts can be found here.


9. Problems/complaints/drama/etc
Memories:12 entries
Interests:138: advice, babies, baby care, baby showers, baby wearing, being pregnant, bellycasts, biology, birth, birth centers, birth plans, birth stories, birthing, birthingways, books, bradley method, breast pumps, breastfeeding, bundles of joy, c-section, c-sections, child development, childbirth, childbirth education, children, choice, circumcision, cloth diapering, co-sleeping, conception, cravings, daddies, dads, delivery, diapers, doctors, doulas, emotions, empowering birth, episiotomy, exercise, expectant mothers, expecting, family, fatherhood, fathers, fertility, free birth, freebirth, gd, gentle birth, gestation, having a baby, hbac, health, home birth, homebirth, hormones, hospitals, hyponobirthing, ican, induction, infertility, information, informed consent, instinct, intelligence, labor, labor and delivery, lactation, lamaze, learning, life, love, mamas, menstruation, midwifery, midwives, milk, miscarriage, mommies, mommy, moms, mother, motherhood, mothering, mothers, multiples, naming, natural birth, natural childbirth, newborn care, newborns, nursing, nutrition, oxytocin, parenthood, parenting, photos, pictures, pitocin, placenta, post partum depression, power of birth, ppd, pregnancy, pregnant bellies, pregnant teens, premature birth, prenatal care, prevention, problems, pupps, questions, reproductive health, sisterhood, stretchmarks, support, the world health organization, toddlers, tolerance, triplets, ttc, twins, ubac, ultrasounds, unassisted birth, unassisted childbirth, uterus, vaginal birth, vaginal birth after cesarean, vbac, water birth, waterbirth, women, women's health, women's issues, women's rights
Maintainers:7: erinmdmd, folkgirl, luvkitten, magicpointeshoe, noonle, pregnantmods, so_there
Members:3516: View Members.
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