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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If you are after 'parenting' words, then probably you should aim for a gender neutral forum. Just a thought.

'stay at home mum/dad': Parent not in paid employment outside the home (cf 'full time mum/dad')
'skin to skin': naked skin contact between (especially newborn) baby and parent, used for comfort/bonding
'controlled crying': a controversial sleep-training technique which involves leaving the baby/infant to cry for fixed periods of time
also another vote for 'poonami', 'helicopter parenting' and 'screen time'

Also there are lots of acronyms used on forums: DD (dear/darling daughter), DS(dear/darling son), DH (dear/darling husband) etc which are completely impenetrable to a new parent!

Butterflymind which leads to addled brain. I think most parents know about this condition!

Poosplosion - probably self explanatory. Its the ones that go up the back and all round the sides and take half an hour to deal with!!

Poonami gets my vote....the horror! The horror!

Pram rage - where you just cannot get the pram to open up properly

BF - breastfeeding
bumbum - what me, and most parents i know called their nappies!
botbot - my sons name for his bottle when he was a toddler.
tot - its in there but not defined as a toddler as we all know!

Hangry - when baby is grumpy because he is hungry.

Baby led weaning - letting baby lead the way when weaning.

Agree with poonami, definitely. Also like poosplosion and poomageddon, but they aren't as common as poonami.

code brown - in our house that is if a child has done a poo in the bath.

babywearing is really widely used now, that ought to be in the dictionary.

Crunchy mama - a mother who prefers organic, eco-friendly food, clothing, activity and toy options for her child. Examples: makes own organic baby food, cloth diapering, avoiding processed foods, organic and chemical free soaps, home remedies, free trade baby clothes, etc.

Silky mama - a mother who follows more conventional food, toy, clothing, and activity options for her child. Examples: prepackaged foods for lunches and snacks, big box store toys and clothes, over the counter mainstream medicines, disposable diapers, regular name brand baby soaps and ointments, etc.

helicopter parenting
Poonami
Baby-wearing

Hershey squirts not quite as bad as a poonami, but when DC has a runny bottom.
Ralphing when DC is throwing up
Pooting when DC is a bit windy down below and building up to a nappy change
Young ninja - toddler term

Dab - a move that looks a bit like usain bolt celebrating whilst sneezing !

Sharing - a concept that children are unable to comprehend until they are at least 10!

It used to be popping round to a friend 's house to play, or have tea -now it's called a play date!

Definitely "threenager" - we're going through that stage now and it's real! Worse than terrible twos! Lots of attitude! :D

I use poonami, every time there is an explosion! Poonami has my vote :)

bink or binky- is another word for pacifier
Kangaroo Care: another term for Skin to skin with baby, often done after birth.
blowout- another term for very messy dirty diaper in which clothes may need to skip the wash and go straight to the trash.

Cluster feed: v. repeatedly nursing a baby a smaller amount of milk than a full feeding within a short period of time. For example, feeding a baby a new born baby an ounce of milk and then 45 minutes later feeding the baby another ounce.

Coo: v. To emulate the sound doves or pigeons make, for example a newborn's early sounds of contentment

Wikipedia as a verb. As in "don't Wikipedia your homework". It refers to the habit of cutting and pasting Wikipedia entries as a substitute for actually researching a subject.

Huggle - cross between a hug & a cuddle!

Mummy/Mommy blogger - a mother who blogs about her children and her experience of parenting.
Stay-at-home mother/Stay-at-home father - a mother or father who does not work but stays at home and looks after the children. Also stay-at-home mum/stay-at-home dad. Can't believe that isn't in there already!
Yummy mummy - this is only in there as a draft addition, but it should really be in there properly.

Board book - a book with cardboard pages for very young children. For shame, OED! How could you miss that one?

Very late, I realise, but I've just come up with one. 'Babotage' - when your child appears to be going out of their way to deliberately ruin your day.

chunderpop= little vomit whilst being burped.

Not sure if this one has been mentioned or not. "Rainbow Baby" - the baby which is conceived and born after a miscarriage.