Useful parenting abbreviation and acronym cheatsheet
If you’re new in the parenting world or into parenting forums, you might be surprised by all the weird jargon used.
AF, DS, PG… Lots of words are being replace by abbreviations. It can make it extra difficult to understand what people are talking about.
To help stay connected, we’ve created this parenting glossaries with the most usual acronyms.
A
- AF
- Aunt flo or menstrual cycle
- AI
- Artificial insemination
B
- BBT
- Basal body temperature
- BC
- Birth control
- BCP
- Birth control pills
- BD
- Baby dance (sex for the purpose of conception)
- BF
- Breastfeeding
- BFN
- Big fat negative (pregnancy test)
- BFP
- Big fat positive (pregnancy test)
- BIL
- Brother-in-law
- BLW
- Baby-led weaning
- BM
- Breast milk
C
- C/S
- Cesarean section
- CD
- Cycle day
- CF
- Cervical fluid
- CIO
- Cry it out
- CM
- Cervical mucus
D
- DC
- Daycare
- DCP
- Daycare provider
- DD
- Dear daughter
- DDB
- Due date buddy
- DE
- Donor eggs
- DF
- dear fiance
- DH
- Dear husband
- DIL
- Daughter-in-law
- DPO
- Days post-ovulation
- DS
- Dear son
- DSD
- Dear stepdaughter
- DSS
- Dear stepson
- DW
- Dear wife
- DuH
- Dumb husband
- DuW
- Dumb wife
E
- EBF
- Extended breastfeeding or exclusively breastfed
- EBM
- Expressed breast milk
- EDD
- Estimated due date or expected date of delivery
F
- FF
- Formula feeding
- FIL
- Father-in-law
- FTM
- First time mum
H
- H&H9
- Happy and healthy nine months (congratulations on your pregnancy)
- HOM
- High order multiples
- HPT
- Home pregnancy test
I
- IC
- Incompetent cervix
- IF
- Infertility
- IUI
- Intrauterine insemination
- IVF
- In vitro fertilization
L
- L&D
- Labor and delivery
- LO
- Little one
- LP
- Luteal phase
M
- MC or M/C
- Miscarriage
- MIL
- Mother-in-law
- ML
- Maternity leave
- MM
- Mother’s milk
- MS or M/S
- Morning sickness
- MW
- Midwife
N
- NAK
- Nursing at keyboard
- NIP
- Nursing in public
O
- O
- Ovulation
- O’d
- Ovulated
P
- PG
- Pregnant
- POAS
- Pee on a stick (i.e. pregnancy test)
- PP
- Postpartum
- PPD
- Postpartum depression
R
- RE
- Reproductive endocrinologist
S
- SAHD
- Stay-at-home dad
- SAHM
- Stay-at-home mum
- SAHP
- Stay-at-home parent
- SD
- Sperm donor
- SIL
- Sister-in-law
- SO
- Significant other
- STBX
- Soon-to-be-ex (spouse)
T
- TTC
- Trying to conceive
U
- US or U/S
- Ultrasound
V
- VBAC
- Vaginal birth after cesarean section
W
- WAH
- Work at home
- WAHD
- Work-at-home dad
- WAHM
- Work-at-home mum
- WOH
- Work-out-of-home
- WOHD
- Work-outside-home dad
- WOHM
- Work-outside-home mum
X
- XH
- Ex-husband
- XW
- Ex-wife
