2WW: 2 Weeks Wait (before testing)
AAFP: American Academy of Family Practice
AAP: American Academy of Pediatrics
AF: Aunt Flo
AP: Attachment Parenting (bedsharing/cosleeping, babywearing etc)
BBC: Baby Center (website)
BBL: Be Back Later
BBT: Basal Body Temperature
BC: Birth Control
BD: Baby Dance (Sex)
BF: Breastfed/feeding OR Boyfriend
BFN: Big Fat Negative (pregnancy test)
BFP: Big Fat Positive (pregnancy test)
BLW: Baby Led Weaning (Waiting till six months to feed and skipping purees)
BM: Breast Milk OR Bowel Movement
CD: Cloth Diapering OR Cycle Day
CF: Child Free
CH: Crosshairs. The lines on a chart to indicate ovulation.
CIO: Cry It Out (sleep training) – Opposite of attachment parenting.
CIRC: Circumcision
CM: Cervical Mucous
CP: Cervical Position
C/S: Caesarean Section
DIL: Daughter In Law
DCC: Delayed Cord Clamping. Not cutting the cord till baby gets all the iron/blood/oxygen. Read more.
DCP: Day care provider
DD: Darling Daughter
DS: Darling Son
DTD: Do the deed
DH: Darling Husband (or dear)
DPO: Days Past Ovulation
EBF: Exclusively Breast Feeding
EBM: Expressed Breast Milk
EC: Elimination Communication (Following baby’s cues, not using diapers.)
EDD: Estimated/Expected Due Date
EP: Exclusively Pumping
EWCM: Egg White Cervical Mucous (fertile)
FIL: Father in Law
FSH: Follicle Stimulating Hormone
FTM: First Time Mother
GV: Gentian Violet
HPT: Home Pregnancy Test
IBCLC: International Board Certified Lactation Consultant
ILs: In-law’s
IMO: In my Opinion
IMHO: In My Honest Opinion
L&D: Labor and Delivery
LMP: Last Menstrual Period. The first day of your last period.
LO: Little One
LP: Luteal Phase
MC: Miscarriage
MIL: Mother in law
NAK: Nursing at Keyboard
NBR: Not Baby Related
NIP: Nursing in Public
NPR: Not Pregnancy Related
O: Ovulation
OPK: Ovulation predictor kit
PAK: Pumping at Keyboard
PCP: Primary Care Physician
PED/PAED: Pediatrician
PIS: Pump in Style (Medela)
PM: Private Message
POAS: Pee On A Stick
PPD: Post Partum Depression
PPP: Post Partum Phycosis
PPH: Post Partum Hemorrhage
SAHM: Stay at Home Mother
SIL: Sister/Son In Law
SMH: Shaking My Head
SNS: Supplemental Nursing System (a way to feed baby at the breast via formula, expressed or donated milk)
SO: Significant Other
TMI: To Much Info
TMII: Too Much Intimate Info
TTC: Trying To Conceive
UB/UC: Unassisted Birth
UTI: Urinary Tract Infection
VAX: Vaccination
VBAC: Vaginal birth after cesarean section
WAHM: Work at Home Mother
WIC: Women, Infants and Children
XH: Ex-Husband
Susannah is a certified Birth Doula through Childbirth International and the founder of Trimester Talk. With a background in journalism and digital strategy, she combines evidence-based research with real-world knowledge to create accessible content about pregnancy and parenting. She’s a mother of two and stepmother of two more, all of them now teenagers.