Expressions you've learned on Mumsnet which you dislike/detest

[Homewardbound2022]

On the back of the thread about expressions you love and/or make you laugh, let's see which expressions have the entirely opposite effect.

Now, call me a cold-hearted unfeeling cow, many have, but the expression which makes me want to heave is "need a handhold". God the act alone of typing it brings me out in hives.

Your turn.

A meltdown and a tantrum are two different things. You can’t manage a meltdown with discipline or rewards because they aren’t driven by a desire to get your own way. Meltdowns happen in people with autism or other neurological differences - it’s really unhelpful when the two are used interchangeably because it makes genuine meltdowns appear as bad behaviour or parenting.

autismawarenesscentre.com/what-is-the-difference-between-a-tantrum-and-an-autistic-meltdown/

@YouSoundLovely , interesting what you say about ‘fall pregnant’. OK, I’m pretty ancient, but I honestly never heard it until my late teens, when an older woman advised a single colleague of my sort of age, ‘…to get your name down for a council house, love, in case you fall for a baby.’

(The girl did fairly soon ‘fall’).

It definitely had the same sort of connotations as ‘falling’ ill.

In my admittedly mostly MC circles I’d only ever heard ‘getting/becoming pregnant’ or, perhaps more often, ‘expecting a baby’.

On a similar topic, whatever happened to ‘new baby’? I love ‘new baby’ but they’re all ‘newborns’ now.

"On my period."
I'd never heard that until I read it on Mumsnet.
"Having my period" was what I had ever heard.
I'm not living in Britain though.

San pro. I have never seen that anywhere other than MN

See also I just woke up my husband/dog/children/priest/cousin in Australia I was laughing so much.