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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Tummy time

Quite a common term and used to describe babies spending time on their tummies to strengthen them

Baby bomb: The impact some parents feel when they have a child which is like a bomb going off in your life, affecting all aspects of life, after which nothing is ever the same again. It includes positives and negatives, and such things as choas, love, fear, exhaustion, etc on intense levels never before experienced.

Digital babysitter: an iPad or similar.

Babymoon
Nipple confusion
SAHM
Treasure baskets
Pump and dump
Free range parenting
Push present
Angel baby
Babytainment
Mummy brain
Baby-led potty training (BLPT)
Elimination communication (EC)
Cloth nappying

Lovebombing
Screen time

Babymoon- because it's just like a honeymoon, isn't it?
Dream feed- a dream for who?
Free range children- running around with a big stick covered in mud? I can do that!
.....and my absolute favourite.....Me-time! Anyone who has kids know that this is s myth. Not even going to the loo is a safe haven and if you're not with them, you're thinking about them or talking about them.

performance parenting- VERY LOUD DEMONSTRATION OF THE BRILLIANCE OF YOUR PARENTING SKILLS

Merry, I think you do tune out a bit with your third!

Oops, that sounded rude, sorry! I, too, have three.

Agree with threenager. No terrible twos then have the third birthday and winder what happened to your child overnight.

words to help any breast feeding mum such as foremilk, hindmilk, IBCLC - International Board Certified Lactation Consultants, lanonin & more

CBeebiesitter

Craftermath. The aftermath of a craft session.

Baby led weaning.

Chrisappointment - the rather sad parental reaction to children rapidly losing interest in lovingly-bought festive presents.....

Definately

Poonami
Threeanger

Also Helicopter parenting - extreme overproctiveness and always hovering (like a helicopter) in every thing their child does.

I'd like to vote for 'poonami'and 'code brown'

Reem. My teenagers are always saying this. I'm not too sure what it means though. They seem to have all these secret code words.

We always said apoocalypse in our house. Also SAHP in addition to SAHM.

Eye speaking! Words not necessary as you can read their eye and expressions!

Sleep regression: when you think you've got a child who sleeps through the night and then, just as you are starting to feel smug/relieved, you realise you haven't

Cluster-feeding: lots of milk feeds very close together (sometimes lasting HOURS)

Tummy-time: placing baby on their bellies for a bit of time each day, to help their physical development

Leap/developmental leap: a period of mental development for a baby

Baby massage: massaging your baby (but not like a masseuse - more just gentle stroking)

Dream feed: a milk feed you give your baby when they are basically asleep, in the hope that they will stay asleep

Thought of another - birthing ball! Big bouncy ball like an exercise ball that you sit on during labour

Also skin-to-skin - naked baby held against parent/carer's skin (meant to be super beneficial)

Not very exciting ones but definitely used!

I think that poonami would be a great addition

Poonami (pronounced like tsunami) - a situation when you go to change a childs nappy and find its leaked EVERYWHERE.

There should also be a little note mentioning the trick of rolling baby vests down when dealing with a poonami, rather than having to take it over the head and spreading it further

helicopter parenting.

'Justinification' - the result of spending too much time in the presence of small children so that your social skills and style of interaction come to resemble those of Cbeebies star Justin Fletcher.