Parenting / Pregnancy Message Board Lingo Reference Guide

If you are newborn to communication boards or forums you strength encounter yourself wondering what every those abbreviations mean. Here is a itemize of commonly utilised communication commission lingo utilised in parenting and maternity forums in alphabetical visit to ingest as a  reference when deciphering every those messages. Save this to your favorites and become backwards until you're smooth in this internet jargon.

ADN Any punctuation now

AF Aunt Flo, period

AFK Away from keyboard

AP Attachment parenting

AYH Are you here

AYT Are you there

ATM At the moment

BBL Be backwards later

BC Birth control

BD Baby Dancing/sex in hopes of conceiving

BF Breastfeeding swain or prizewinning friend

BFN Big Fat Negative ofttimes when referring to a perverse maternity test

BFP Big Fat Positive also for maternity test

BIL monastic in law

BRB Be correct back

BTDT Been there finished that

BTW By the way

CD Cycle punctuation for punctuation or textile diaper

CIO Cry it out

CM Cervical secretion utilised in maternity boards

CW Current coefficient or clueless astonishment (usually effectuation husband)

DC Dear child

DD Dear Daughter

DF Dear Fiance'

DH Dear Husband (dearest crapper be substituted for darn, darling, misfit etc.)

DPO Days time ovulation

DS Dear son

DSD Dear travel daughter

DSS Dear travel son

EDD Estimated cod fellow or fellow of delivery

EBF Exclusively boob feeding

EBM Expressed boob milk

EN Extended nursing

EP Ectopic pregnancy

EPT Early maternity test

ETA Edited to add

EX Ex Spouse

FET Frozen brute transfer

FF Formula feeding

FIL Father in law

FOCL Falling soured my lead laughing

FTR For the record

FWIW For what it's worth

FYI For your information

GF Girlfriend

GL Good luck

GMTA Great minds conceive alike

GP Guilty pleasure

HB Heart beat

HPT Home maternity test

HTH Hope that/this helps

ISP cyberspace assist provider

IYKWIM If you undergo what I mean

IYO In your opinion

IM Instant Message

IM! HO In my honest/humble opinion

IMO In my opinion

IRL In actual life

ITA I totally agree

IVF In vitro fertilization

JK Just kidding

JMO Just my opinion

JMHO Just my honest/humble opinion

KWIM Know what I mean

KWYM Know what you mean

LMAO Laughing my a** off

LMBO Laughing my laughingstock off

LOL Laughing discover loud

MC Miscarriage

MG Months goal- ofttimes for coefficient loss

MIL Mother in law

NAK nursing at keyboard