Start Here: Community Guidelines and Policies

The Beyond 12 Weeks Project was created to encourage honest, compassionate conversations surrounding postpartum recovery, parenthood, mental health, identity, and healing.

To help keep this space supportive and welcoming for everyone, we ask community members to follow these guidelines:

• Lead with kindness and empathy.
  Every parent’s experience is different. Please treat others with compassion, respect, and understanding — even when experiences or perspectives differ from your own.

• No parent-shaming.
  This includes criticism surrounding feeding choices, sleep arrangements, birth experiences, parenting styles, mental health struggles, work decisions, recovery timelines, or family dynamics.

• Respect personal stories.
  Many people sharing here are discussing vulnerable and deeply personal experiences. Please respond thoughtfully and avoid dismissive or judgmental comments.

• No bullying, harassment, hate speech, or discrimination.
  Any harmful, abusive, threatening, or discriminatory behavior will not be tolerated.

• Avoid giving medical advice.
  Sharing personal experiences is welcome, but this community should not replace professional medical or mental health care.

• Protect privacy.
  Please avoid sharing personal identifying information about yourself or others.

This space values honesty over perfection.
You do not need to be a “perfect parent” to belong here.

By interacting with, commenting on, or liking any posts you agree to follow these guidelines. The Beyond 12 Weeks Project reserves the right to remove comments or submissions that violate these guidelines in order to maintain a safe and supportive environment for the community. Repeat offenders will be banned.

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