Share new parenting words with the Oxford English Dictionary for a chance to win £100-worth of children's books. Ends midday, Thursday 30 March

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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) would like you - the real parenting experts - to help them improve their coverage of the vast vocabulary of pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting.

From TTC to baby-led-weaning, the language of pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting is as diverse as the opinions parents hold about these topics. And it’s changing, reflecting not only medical advances, but also developments in how we think about children and parenting.

Many such terms are relatively recent, and don’t appear in dictionaries - the OED is keen to capture them. So we're asking Mumsnetters to submit any pregnancy, childbirth, or parenting term that they think is important and which is not yet in OED Online (Search the OED for free). We'd like to hear about brand new words and new senses of familiar words.

In return, we're giving you the chance to win £100 of children's book vouchers. Share your parenting words by midday, 30 March to be entered into the draw.

All your suggestions will go through a process of assessment for inclusion in the dictionary, and the first additions will be published online in December 2017.

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tweenager?

I found out the word "dyad" is used to describe a breastfeeding mother and baby at a group a few weeks ago. It stuck in my mind because my older child calls her grandad "dyad"!

Co-sleeping-sleeping alongside child though not necessarily in the same bed.
Bed-sharing- sharing your bed with a child.
Dream feed- rousing child just enough to feed, late evening before you go to bed, in the hope that it will help them sleep through.
The Wind Master- what you call your husband so you can throw the baby at him after a breast feed in the night.

Korma poo for a particular type of early bowel evacuation of baby.

"trench thumb" - what happens to the thumb after prolonged sucking and exposure to the moist mouth environment. Redness, swelling, blisters, and sloughing of skin.

Code Brown - a poonami alert

Gizmo'd - as in, 'we got gizmo'd last night'.. Tortured by lack of sleep by waking baby/ child (combination of guantanamo bay=gitmo and 'bright light, bright light' = Gizmo from Gremlins)

Vomageddon - when your child is puking up day and night
Snowflake - a school-aged child who is treated as precious and unique by their parents

Meltdown - particularly prolonged tantrum

Poopcasso - what you call your toddler when he/she smears poop everywhere and anywhere including themselves "artistically ".

Vom-monster
Yummy mummies
Playground mummies
Mum uniform (Breton, skinnies, parka, Converse etc)
Witching hour - 6pm hell
Bed nest - a brand but also a concept here
Buggy board - another brand that has entered our vocab as a thing
Quiet time - Mum wants to chat to her mates so please sit and watch Gruffalo / Bear Hunt in silence (or as close to as possible). Not guaranteed to work
Play date - could be good. Could be hell. No way of knowing in advance

Frosty/frosties - frozen embryo

PFB - precious first born - term to indicate the obsessive amount of attention you pay to the tiniest details of parenting your first child.

Surprised that one isn't in already!

See also NSC - neglected subsequent child(ren).

Benign Neglect - parenting strategy that is exactly what it says on the packet. Regularly leaving your dc to cope with boredom on their own resources and solve problems themselves while you Mumsnet.

The best ones have all been done. I used poonami and hangry regularly. Baby-led weaning seems utterly standard now.

"Tummy time" which basically means putting the baby on their tummy to help them progress physically with pushing up, the rolling and eventually crawling.

I haven't searched these (sorry sorry) but 'in my day' (youngest is 15) there was no reflux, tongue tie or tummy time.

Mumbores - Women who seem to forget life exists outside parenthood.

Yes we know you're a mum, do you not have anything else to discuss as we have had to listen to you dissecting the nuances of parenthood for the last hour and a half?

Oh, thought of another!

Babywearing- carrying your baby in a sling on your body.

Temping - monitoring your basal body temperature (bbt) every morning to monitor for ovulation

Charting - adding in information from other factors such as ovulation prediction tests (opks) to help time intercourse into order to conceive.

Poonami
Apoocalypse
Shitastrophe

All the same thing, really

Merrylegs, my eldest is 16 and reflux, tongue-tie and tummy to me were definitely known about.

Threeager - 3 year old issues
'Blown' - as in she's blown -the point in day after which she just needs to go to bed and nothing more good will comes
Scananxiety - stressed out waiting for your 12/20 week scan

I think poonami, threenager and snowflake are the two that are becoming most entrenched into normal language.

Interesting goody, that is surprising. - are you remembering from yr youngest or your eldest though? (Perhaps because she's my third and my others are older I had tuned out of baby terms.) They certainly weren't as universal then as they are now in that case.