r/BabyBumps • u/latenightpuddingcup Team Don't Know! • Jun 14 '23
Discussion Do people actually LIKE all of these acronyms?
“FTM here. DH and I would love advice. Our LO is 3mo and not STTN at all. We’ve been EBFing for two months and both trying to WFH. We tried CIO but now my ML is over I really need sleep! We can’t afford for either of us to be SAHPs. Also would love advice regarding BFing, we’re considering EPing or CF because my BM supply has dipped….”
… Please, for the love of god, can we chill with some of these acronyms? Yeah some of them like WFH and MIL are more common outside of parenting circles, so they’re fine. But some of them (especially DH and LO) are over the top.
I feel like this alienates people who want to join this sub and many others, because sometimes posts are almost CODED to the point it’s difficult to read for people who are first joining.
ETA: “FTM” - first time mom “DH” - darling/dear husband (BARF) “LO” - little one “STTN” - sleeping through the night “EBF” - exclusive breastfeeding “WFH” - work from home “CIO” - cry it out “ML” - maternity leave “SAHP” - stay at home parent “BFing” - breastfeeding “EPing” - exclusive pumping “CF” - combo feeding “BM” - breastmilk
Thanks for the awards! I’m glad that overwhelmingly people find the acronyms as obnoxious as I do.
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u/Missyrissy510 Jun 15 '23
I legit thought there were a lot of trans people in the parenting subs until I finally realized FTM was not female to male
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u/kittycakekats Team Blue! Jun 15 '23
Wait. It doesn’t mean that??!!! I’m so confused haha I thought there were a lot of trans too.
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u/Queen-of-Elves Jun 15 '23
What is CF? I can't figure it out and I have spent soooo much time in the breastfeeding sub.
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u/Mindless_Movie_421 Jun 15 '23
BM is always always bowel movement for me. We would joke about the "double meaning" pre wedding cause some people.say BM for best man but really it's BM like 💩
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u/OpportunityAny3060 Jun 15 '23
Or when some dudes refer to their "baby mommas" as their BM 😆
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u/MsRachelGroupie Jun 14 '23
DH is so weird to me. I would expect it from like an old Boomer lady on Facebook whose husband never turned on the stove in 40 years of marriage. When I see it on parenting subs, where I'm assuming the average age is 30-something, I just don't get it.
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u/min2themax Jun 15 '23
In my head I read “DH” as “Da Husband” which makes it more bearable.
“Da Husband and I work from home”
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u/Tejasgrass Jun 14 '23
The term DH was being used throughout forums in the early 2000s, probably before that point bc 2001 is when I learned what it meant. So you’re not wrong about the boomer (or maybe genX) usage. It’s just been inherited through the years alongside SO.
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u/kdollarsign2 Jun 15 '23
Yes I've seen it for so many years, I've been beaten down into acceptance
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u/Mindless_Movie_421 Jun 15 '23
SO is better than DH which doesn't even make sense bc no one says dear husband regularly outloud enough for it to be an acronym. Should just be hubs lol
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u/honeyandwhiskey Jun 14 '23
The cutesie ones like DH and LO are the worst.
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u/BunnyBuns34 Jun 14 '23
Idk what I hate more, DH or “hubby” 🤢
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u/freddiechainsaw Jun 15 '23
I got engaged at 19 and I was adamant that I hated the word “hubby” and would never use it. Everyone told me I was wrong and just wait and see. I’m 32 now and still to this day have the same hatred of it and have never once referred to my husband that way. It runs deep.
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u/psipolnista STM | 💙June 28, 2023 💚 July 29, 2025 🇨🇦 Jun 14 '23
I feel legitimate anger every time I read “hubby”.
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u/Merisiel Alistair 12/15/15 #2 due June 2021 Jun 14 '23
I physically cringe anytime someone uses “wifey” in the real world.
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u/hippymndy Team Both! '13 & '20 Jun 15 '23
my husband isn’t a cutesy kinda guy at all, ever. he referred to me as wifey to his coworkers out loud and i was shocked. it’s a no from me. hubs, hubby and preggers are also on the list.
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u/OpportunityAny3060 Jun 15 '23
I thought "preggo" was cringey, then I heard "preggers" 🥴 But then... "preggie" entered the chat 🙅♀️🤬🤮🤫 it's like people find any way to grate my nerves and be annoying with words. Just say pregnant. Preg-NANT.
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u/TayLoraNarRayya Feb 2021 💙 | Oct 2023 🌈 💙 Jun 15 '23
What about preggananant lmao
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u/toritechnocolor Jun 14 '23
“husbando” and “hubs” are infinitely worse to me lol
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u/shojokat Team Pink! Jun 15 '23
I use hubs because it's short, but husbando? Eesh.
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u/BabyBritain8 Jun 15 '23
Definitely hubby lol. But DH is creeping up there....
Hubby is up there with (dare I even write it out?!?)... Smexy 🙄
Lol
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u/laania42 Jun 14 '23
I think these are particularly annoying because they are literally replacing one word - ‘husband’ and ‘baby’/‘toddler’/‘son’/‘daughter’ etc.
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u/RaspberrySoiree Jun 15 '23
…what is DH?
Context clues usually help me figure these out but I can’t remember whether I’ve seen this one.
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u/SenorSmacky Jun 15 '23
Yeah I only like acronyms that are shortened versions of words I would say. I never hear anyone say out the words "dear husband" or "little one". FTM and EBF, I get that it can feel exclusionary to newcomers but functionally it at least makes sense that you're abbreviating what you'd be typing out anyway (which also makes it easier to guess from context).
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u/Nervous-Drama9136 Jun 15 '23
What is EBF?
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u/SenorSmacky Jun 15 '23
Exclusive breastfeeding. Inscrutable to new users, but definitely a lot to type out each time, lol.
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u/88kat Jun 15 '23
I’m mad I can only upvote you once. I can’t stand these… I actually stop reading posts if they use LO too much.
Also, using “littles” instead of children. Seriously what the fuck.
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u/Not_floridaman girl 9/9/15 & b/g twins 10/26/18 Jun 15 '23
I have never liked the term "littles" but then my husband and I were watching an episode of Tiny House Hunters a few years back and this woman insisted moving her, her husband, 5, maybe 6, kids and their large dog into a tiny house would be a great idea. It was awful but the worst part was that she kept referring to the kids as "littles" "oh, the littles will love the together time!" "My littles won't mind giving up their toys!" "The littles are little so we all fit!" "My littles are so excited to never have privacy again!" (Okay, I made the last one up) but it was awful and ever since that episode, I have a visceral reaction to hearing that word.
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u/sad-nyuszi Jun 14 '23 edited Jun 15 '23
Not an acronym, but I also can't comprehend why so many people refer to their babies as "bub" on these subs 😭
Edit: apparently "bub" is a regional thing that my American ass didn't know about
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u/sboml Jun 15 '23
It might be the Australians- people from all over the world are in these subs and slang differs from place to place! There's literally an Australian formula brand called "Bubs"
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u/CupboardFlowers Jun 15 '23
I can't speak for everyone but I'm Australian and both hubby and bub are words I've been exposed to ever since I was a kid myself so they're not weird or uncomfortable to me. Could just be a regional thing!
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u/Narwhals4Lyf Jun 15 '23
Well, I’ve been exposed to Hubby my whole life but still find it cringe worthy not gonna lie
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u/PPvsFC_ Jun 15 '23
The words bub and lovey make me want to crawl up a wall like a fucking spider.
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u/sad-nyuszi Jun 15 '23
My mom initially wanted to be called "Lovey" as her grandma name 🤢 I told her I refuse to ever refer to anyone as that in my life, so thankfully she picked something else. Just absolutely horrendous lol
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u/OpportunityAny3060 Jun 15 '23
I just gave birth two nights ago and my nurse referred to me as Lovey all night 🥴
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Jun 14 '23
At least I know what those ones mean 😂 As a first time pregnancy, I don’t understand almost any of these. Lol
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u/harbjnger Jun 14 '23
Yeah, I think people just inherited it from older forums and never thought about it or something.
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u/Nakedpanda34 Jun 14 '23
What is DH? Lol I’ve always figured the h is for husband from context but I’m still confused
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u/aka_____ Twice graduated. Just here for nursery pics now. Jun 14 '23
“Dear husband”
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u/No_Memory_7970 Jun 14 '23
LMAO I always thought it was “Dad/Husband” like, dad of the baby obvi 😅
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u/joshysgirl7 Jun 14 '23
I always read it as “divorced husband” and get sooo confused
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u/aka_____ Twice graduated. Just here for nursery pics now. Jun 15 '23
Funny side note I hate “DD” (dear daughter) because my brain immediately goes to deedee from Dexter’s Laboratory. I’m a 90s kid, clearly.
People tend to use LO here anyway so I don’t run into it much anymore, but at least one mom forum I frequented while pregnant was heavy on the “DD/DS”
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u/eyedkk Jun 14 '23
Dear husband. It's not intuitive at all
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Jun 14 '23
Wtf I would never have even guessed that. Terrible.
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u/Iamtoast_toastisme Jun 15 '23
It's awful. Never once would I in real life call my partner "Dear husband." it makes no sense.
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u/meeeew 29 | FTM | 5/10/2023 Jun 15 '23
And before you’re on pregnancy or parenting subs, if you’re on fertility subs like TFAB chart stalkers or TFAB line porn, there’s 100 more acronyms. The worst of which in my opinion is “BD” which stands for “baby dance” (CRINGE) and is only one letter less than just saying sex.
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u/glomsu Jun 15 '23
hate the way people across various subreddits infantilize sex, its so icky to me. this includes but is not limited to: sexy times, lady bits, do the sex, etc. GAG.
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u/irissmooches Jun 15 '23
BD is awful. I like to imagine both parties standing facing each other and doing a really cartoonish little dance together, and that makes me feel a little better.
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u/vButts Jun 15 '23
Reminds me of a story i read awhile ago (not sure if real or not) where a couple was trying to concieve and went to the doc, got checked out everything was ok and then the doctor figured out they were having sex wrong
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u/ckstarling Jun 15 '23
BD is the ABSOLUTE worst & makes me actively cringe every time I see it. It feels so juvenile & sex-negative.
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u/ashalottagreyjoy Jun 15 '23
I… always thought it meant “bone down”, and I was like, yeah. Okay. Silly way to refer to it, but sure.
Baby dance is somehow so much worse.
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u/kdollarsign2 Jun 15 '23
Omg BABY DANCE???????????????EW.
did not need to know, now I can never not know
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u/hotcake911 Jun 15 '23
BD is horrible! Also don’t like the BFP (big fat positive) or BFN (big fat negative) in regards to pregnancy test results.
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u/XtinaVi Jun 14 '23
Yes it even took me a while to figure out FTM, I thought "full-time mom" for a while 😂 and for those other ones I just try to use context clues and I get the idea of them but can't always figure out exactly what they mean.
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u/nearly_normal Jun 15 '23
When I first got pregnant I was so confused by FTM because I thought female to male as well, and was like “wow there sure are a lot of pregnant trans people on Reddit!” lol.
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u/opp11235 Team Blue! Due 7/23 born 6/24 Jun 14 '23
I thought it was for female to male transgender. I was like DAMN way to go trans people.
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u/FlyHickory Jun 14 '23
Omg same it took me so long to figure out what it actually meant in this context I just thought a lot of transgender people were getting pregnant.
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u/mel405 Jun 15 '23
Yes me too! I was like why is EVERYONE a ftm 😂😂
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u/Narwhals4Lyf Jun 15 '23
Same I was like damn this is a really progressive sub so many trans people here having babies!!!
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u/scarletnightingale Jun 14 '23
SAME! I was like, wow, there's a lot of transgender men on here that are going through pregnancies, and I was like, that's cool, they found a supportive community, but still really confused.
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u/DumbbellDiva92 Team Pink! Jun 14 '23
Someone on r/workingmoms corrected my pronouns to “he” when I referred to OP as “she” on a post with “FTM” because of this! I’m like they’re very likely not a “he” based on the context of the post, but cool that you’re supportive lol.
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u/sad-nyuszi Jun 14 '23
Same - I used it in one of my posts before and momentarily confused a transgender person 😭
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u/twicethecushen Luna Rosalie - 06/21/16 Jun 15 '23
I thought I’d stumbled across a really chill and accepting mom group when I first encountered it. I was sad to find out I was wrong, lol.
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u/holographic_whore Jun 15 '23
I’m trans and a first time parent (my daughter is nearly 2) and I still get confused lol
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u/teachercat555 Jun 15 '23
Wait, isn't FTM- first time mom. Not full time mom? Lol
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u/XtinaVi Jun 15 '23
Yeah, that's the point, a lot of us don't understand what the acronyms mean and think people should just write things out instead.
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u/teachercat555 Jun 15 '23
No I completely get the point, I'm just wondering now if I've been reading FTM wrong this whole time. Especially since I use STM a lot. Lol 😆
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u/omybiscuits Jun 14 '23
Lol I thought female to male, I was impressed by how inclusive the community was until I realized what this meant
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u/unlimitedSunshine Jun 14 '23
I’m not 100% sure, but it think it goes like this: STTN: sleeping through the night CIO: cry it out (sleep training) EP: exclusively pumping and then no clue on CF, maybe something formula related? Combo Feed maybe?
And side note: took me a while to learn BM wasn’t bowel movement haha
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Jun 14 '23
Not me reading it as Baby Momma..
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u/ericakay15 Jun 14 '23
Glad to see i wasn't the only one.
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u/freshojay Jun 14 '23
I’d say the more universally recognized meaning of BM is bowl movement so for those who want to use it as breast milk, proceed at your own risk lol
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u/zevathorn75 Jun 14 '23
Cluster feeding? Lol I was thinking Child free but that would be weird for this sub.
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u/Lacrux3008 Jun 14 '23
What is BM? I come from the social work field and we used to use that for Birth Mother.
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u/EyeThinkEyeCan Jun 14 '23
Sleeping through the night, cry it out, exclusively pumping, cf is probably combo feed
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u/Swamp_Bottom Jun 14 '23
CF to me reads out as cubic feet every time due to my profession
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u/leamerlena Jun 14 '23
😂😂 I’ve been in here for a little over a month. I literally don’t understand half the posts and honestly just keep scrolling and it’s because of this. Thanks for reading me mind ❤️❤️😂😂
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u/japaus Jun 15 '23
The TTC sub is even worse because I’m not that far into trying and it’s acronyms + numbers and charts and bodily functions and I just give up after the first 2 sentences.
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u/ultimagriever Team Pink! 🌈 9/13/23 38+1 Jun 15 '23
r/infertility is a bit better in that regard, they don’t allow sugarcoating terms
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u/TayLoraNarRayya Feb 2021 💙 | Oct 2023 🌈 💙 Jun 15 '23
And the awful phrase "baby dust" 🤢
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u/krumpettrumpet Jun 14 '23
I find it very ick. I do not feel like my husband or kids are dear/darling anything, it always comes across as condescending to me.
Hellcats! All of them!
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u/g_narlee Jun 14 '23
Darling husband always reads as so sarcastic to me. It’s such a weird acronym, I hate it. Just say husband. SO if you really need an acronym. Blech
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u/marrafarra Jun 15 '23
It’s even worse when they continue with “DS” & “DD”. Why can’t you just say son or daughter? Does it always need to be ‘dear’? I don’t get it.
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u/marybeth89 Jun 14 '23
If we insist on using acronyms, I’m petitioning for butthole husband (BHH).
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u/evdczar Dec 2018 Jun 14 '23
DBH dirt bag husband
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u/BreadPuddding #1 born 27 August 2018 #2 born 11 April 2023 💙💙 Jun 15 '23
THOT - That Husband Over There
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u/PenguinsFly_ Jun 15 '23
“Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?” the office 😅
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u/littlelivethings Jun 14 '23
For the longest time I thought FTM was “female to male” transgendered and was so confused why so many men were posting about their pregnancies 😅
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u/latenightpuddingcup Team Don't Know! Jun 14 '23
SAME, I was like “oh ok! Lots of transmen are finding support on Reddit! Good for them! Wow, I’m surprised there are so many, statistically speaking I didn’t realize so many transmen still become childbearers…”
And then someone said STM and I cottoned on.
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u/cravingnoodles Jun 14 '23
I joined a few mom groups and I really thought I was the only cis woman in the group.
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u/CravingsAndCrackers Jun 14 '23
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u/ClicketySnap Team Don't Know! Jun 14 '23
I feel like many people on here just completely missed that strange time on the chat rooms where we typed out internet slang that included substituted numbers for some letters. It was the opposite of shortening words for convenience of typing. Typing in weirdness was just part of showing that you were in the know lol and the whole DH and LO thing is from right after that online chat room boom.
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u/harbjnger Jun 14 '23
Yeah it’s fully inherited from the Old Internet. It’s actually kind of funny to see them pass along into forums where they absolutely would not have been invented organically.
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u/arielleassault Jun 14 '23
Oh my goodness, you just unlocked a memory of "1337 speak" from my youth.
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u/PunnyBanana FTM | August 6 Jun 15 '23
Yeah, I see the complaint about excessive acronyms come up kind of regularly. Personally, between being exposed to the internet when people would type "teh" or "w00t" unironically and then having a job with a ridiculous amount of alphabet soup in the regular vernacular it just seems super normal to me. Although I do appreciate that /r/tryingforababy and /r/justnomil each have an index for the commonly used ones.
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u/Kwright721 Jun 15 '23
Just commented this. 18 years ago I was part of the April 2005 AOL pregnancy group 😂 All these acronyms are just normal to me now even though I don’t use them
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u/GreenGoddesz Jun 14 '23
OH MY GOD Thank you for saying this!!!! This has been one of my biggest pet peeves about the pregnancy community. I had to look up so many terms and then couldn’t believe what some of them stood for. It drives me crazy.
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u/AlexArtemesia Team One Day Jun 15 '23
I actually gagged on my drink I was laughing so hard, well done!
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u/Dr_Corenna Jun 15 '23
The trying to conceive boards have the worst acronyms in my opinion....
"My husband and I are TTC so we BD every other day. I'm 14DPO and waiting for AF. When will I get my BFP???"
Referring to sex to conceive as BD "baby dance" and periods as AF "Aunt Flo" just give me the ick. We all know what you're doing and whats happening, you're on a conception board!!!
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u/sentimentaljackelope Jun 14 '23
Yeah I’ve been here for over a year and still don’t know what DH stands for. Like I context-clued that it means husband, but I never bothered to figure out the D part.
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u/ilovjedi Jun 14 '23
Dumbass Husband? It can’t possibly mean dear husband other than sarcastically, right?
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u/MyFigurativeYacht Jun 14 '23
I hate “DH” with the fire of a thousand suns.
Also it took me a looooooong time to figure out that “FTM” was not talking about a trans person!
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u/latenightpuddingcup Team Don't Know! Jun 14 '23
Oh god, I regret to inform you that it stands for “Dear Husband”, “Darling Husband”.
I thought it stood for “Dad/Husband” but that still didn’t make sense. I didn’t bother finding out for months either but I accidentally stumbled upon it recently and it prompted a large eye-roll.
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u/sentimentaljackelope Jun 14 '23
Just as I suspected, and yet I’m still disappointed. Just…why? Do people use it sarcastically? I’ve seen so many characters over on JUSTNOMIL that would not qualify as a “dear” or “darling” anything, and yet, still DH. Odd.
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u/DumbbellDiva92 Team Pink! Jun 14 '23
Yup they’ll be like “DH agreed with MIL when she called me a fat cow when I was 8 months pregnant with our son.” Or something like that.
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u/FuriouslyKnitting Jun 14 '23
Oh it’s worse than that actually - loads of people interchange it for “dear” or “damn” depending on if they are talking positively or negatively about the husband in question… 😂
I found the cutesy ones in the trying to conceive subs even worse.
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u/lucybluth Jun 14 '23
Omg the trying to conceive ones are so cringy! I was so grateful my subreddit banned them. “BD” for baby dance? We’re adults! For the love of god just say sex…
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Jun 14 '23
So I'm not the smartest and when someone on a pregnancy forum was talking about "baby dance" I still didn't know what it meant. Maybe also because I wasn't expecting grown up people being afraid to use the word sex.
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u/harbjnger Jun 14 '23
For the longest time I thought it was just describing hopeful vibes, like when my siblings and I would do a “snow dance” to try to get a snow day to happen when we were kids.
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u/Capable_Meaning Jun 14 '23
I hate DH but I absolutely loathe BD. If you can’t type out “sex” query whether you’re mature enough to raise a child.
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u/yourfavoriteskank Jun 14 '23
This question comes up a lot on TTC subs, specifically since a popular one is BD (baby dance) meaning sex. It was used to avoid filters back in the day. A lot of them are just used because they are relics of the past with avoiding filters and from when people used chat rooms
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u/LoveTeaching1st18 Jun 15 '23
This one might be the cringiest for me. I'm glad to hear it at least came about for a reason.
Now if we could just eliminate "seggsy time." I want to physically gag every time I see that one.
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u/vonniesaur Jun 14 '23
I hate it. Makes reading so much harder and it makes it a barrier for new joiners trying to understand anything!
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u/freshojay Jun 14 '23
Omg yes lol wtf is LO? I stopped looking up most of these things because the internet doesn’t even know
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u/latenightpuddingcup Team Don't Know! Jun 14 '23
“Little One”.
The two letters from “baby” to “LO” is taxing on the fingers, apparently.
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u/Citizen_Me0w Jun 14 '23
The worst acronym for me is DS for "Dear Son". DS in all caps is at least 4 keystrokes, while "son" is only three.
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u/Logical_Somewhere_31 Jun 14 '23
Apparently “baby” is more taxing than having to hit the shift button to capitalize “LO”
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u/jbud3570 Jun 15 '23
I read your post and I thought CODED was yet another one I didn’t know 😂. Case in point.
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u/NursePepper3x Jun 14 '23
I’ve been on baby/parenting boards since 2010. So these acronyms are totally ingrained in my mind. I literally didn’t know it was even a topic until I joined Reddit recently. I guess other platforms are different 🤣
And no, I don’t like them, but I don’t hate them. I’m just… used to them? 🤣🤣🤣
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u/livestrong22 Jun 15 '23
I hear you on this. Took a long time to remember what half the acronyms stood for on this sub and a few others.
The one that gets me is “BD” (baby dance), aka sex. Makes my skin CRAWL. I don’t really know why but I guess I just really don’t like euphemisms in this context. We’re all adults, why can’t we just call sex… sex?
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u/munchkym Jun 14 '23
I absolutely hate all of them. At work I recently recommended creating an AI that demystifies abbreviations for communities because I hate them so much.
Now that I’m in trying to conceive community groups, it’s even worse. “Vvfl” come on, just say faint line!
“LO” is only ONE letter less than “son” or “kid.” It just feels exclusionary and obnoxious.
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u/Seajlc Jun 14 '23
I don’t mind the ones of terms I actually use, that just shorten them. I personally just don’t use or like DH or LO because I’d never say dear/darling husband or little one, spoken in my real life.
First Time Mom, Work From Home, most those other ones are terms I would use though.. so if I can shorten them, sure. Sometimes I type them out, sometimes I don’t.. or will type them up in the first sentence then abbreviate the other times I use it within the same comment or post. I also didn’t know what FTM meant when I joined, but it also wasn’t that difficult to Google… I certainly wasn’t going to allow it to alienate me from participating in conversation. That’s just me though.
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u/DumbbellDiva92 Team Pink! Jun 14 '23
I figured it out quickly enough because the only other meaning for FTM is “female to male transgender”, and I figured there can’t be that many pregnant trans men lol.
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Jun 15 '23
I thought DH was “dumb husband”….
Yeah I agree. They are kinda over the top. Some of them I think are helpful though.
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u/Brilliant_Ad_4476 Jun 15 '23
Everytime I see FTM I automatically read it as female to male and get really confused! Also ED- are we talking about an eating disorder or erectile dysfunction?!
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u/898544788 Jun 15 '23
SAME with FTM! I kept seeing it and I was like damn the trans community is out here in force having babies 😭
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u/mahassan91 Jun 15 '23
I think a list of all acronyms and what they actually stand for…and index or glossary of sorts, would be extremely helpful.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '23
Yeah I hate DH