Only semi-related: I don't know that I could ever post on/use TB because I hate, hate, HATE the term "bump." It's everything I hate: cutesy, weirdly impersonal (like, there's a baby in you, causing your stomach to protrude. It's not some out-of-body, random event. It's not going to be "my bump," it'll be my fetus/baby/the result of cookin' up some fresh human. It's not some third-party appendage), and worst of all, unnecessary. There are plenty of words for pregnancy and the wonderful world of procreating (don't get me started on "breeders" for that matter, Christ).
But I have a feeling the actual medical words were deemed to make people too uncomfortable--because women's bodies, eewwwwww!!!--so the Marketing Powers That Be decided they needed to make a cute-ass term to talk about a natural process that human mammals have undertaken since the dawn of mammal-hood.
So it's not like XO group invented the term, but ugh. I might get over it when I want to make babies and need some reality checks from righteous broads, though. Or I'll just ask all you punks, since I have come to love and trust your opinions.
Only semi-related: I don't know that I could ever post on/use TB because I hate, hate, HATE the term "bump." It's everything I hate: cutesy, weirdly impersonal (like, there's a baby in you, causing your stomach to protrude. It's not some out-of-body, random event. It's not going to be "my bump," it'll be my fetus/baby/the result of cookin' up some fresh human. It's not some third-party appendage), and worst of all, unnecessary. There are plenty of words for pregnancy and the wonderful world of procreating (don't get me started on "breeders" for that matter, Christ).
But I have a feeling the actual medical words were deemed to make people too uncomfortable--because women's bodies, eewwwwww!!!--so the Marketing Powers That Be decided they needed to make a cute-ass term to talk about a natural process that human mammals have undertaken since the dawn of mammal-hood.
So it's not like XO group invented the term, but ugh. I might get over it when I want to make babies and need some reality checks from righteous broads, though. Or I'll just ask all you punks, since I have come to love and trust your opinions.
I can't stand when people talking about being "prego" or "doing the BD".
I can't stand when people talking about being "prego" or "doing the BD".
I fucking hate prego and preggers. It just sounds like something a teenager would say. And BD...no. Just no. You're having sex. If you're having sex to make a baby, have an orgasm, get secrets from the nazis, or bring about world peace...YOU'RE HAVING SEX. It's all the same goddamn thing.
I've also never been thrilled with AF or "aunt flo". You mean your period? You can discuss cervical mucus like a grown up but period is throwing you for a loop? It's a period.
Only semi-related: I don't know that I could ever post on/use TB because I hate, hate, HATE the term "bump." It's everything I hate: cutesy, weirdly impersonal (like, there's a baby in you, causing your stomach to protrude. It's not some out-of-body, random event. It's not going to be "my bump," it'll be my fetus/baby/the result of cookin' up some fresh human. It's not some third-party appendage), and worst of all, unnecessary. There are plenty of words for pregnancy and the wonderful world of procreating (don't get me started on "breeders" for that matter, Christ).
But I have a feeling the actual medical words were deemed to make people too uncomfortable--because women's bodies, eewwwwww!!!--so the Marketing Powers That Be decided they needed to make a cute-ass term to talk about a natural process that human mammals have undertaken since the dawn of mammal-hood.
So it's not like XO group invented the term, but ugh. I might get over it when I want to make babies and need some reality checks from righteous broads, though. Or I'll just ask all you punks, since I have come to love and trust your opinions.
I have a friend who referred to her first born as "parasite" while she was pregnant to get away from the cutsey stuff.
Do I dare ask what BD stands for? I'm under a rock when it comes to pregnancy acronyms.
Also, preggo, preggers and preg are all awful and make me legit cringe. Prego just makes me laugh because it reminds me of the bottle marinara sauce.
BD = baby dance
I think I'm in the minority in that I don't have a visceral reaction to slang terms. I generally use the "correct" terms, but don't start gaggin when I hear BD or prego or fur baby or hubby. Fur baby, maybe...but generally very meh on the dumb words people choose or choose not to use.
Do I dare ask what BD stands for? I'm under a rock when it comes to pregnancy acronyms.
Also, preggo, preggers and preg are all awful and make me legit cringe. Prego just makes me laugh because it reminds me of the bottle marinara sauce.
BD = baby dance
I think I'm in the minority in that I don't have a visceral reaction to slang terms. I generally use the "correct" terms, but don't start gaggin when I hear BD or prego or fur baby or hubby. Fur baby, maybe...but generally very meh on the dumb words people choose or choose not to use.
To the bolded...seriously? If people want to use slang terms then go right ahead but that slang term is down right stupid.
Do I dare ask what BD stands for? I'm under a rock when it comes to pregnancy acronyms.
Also, preggo, preggers and preg are all awful and make me legit cringe. Prego just makes me laugh because it reminds me of the bottle marinara sauce.
BD = baby dance
I think I'm in the minority in that I don't have a visceral reaction to slang terms. I generally use the "correct" terms, but don't start gaggin when I hear BD or prego or fur baby or hubby. Fur baby, maybe...but generally very meh on the dumb words people choose or choose not to use.
LOLOLOLOL @ baby dance. That is all.
I don't hate slang just to hate it. I tend to dislike anything that seems to be a dumbing-down or infantilizing of things that grown-ass adults do. I don't like that some societal force seems to want us to act/speak like children even as we're doing (arguably) the most adult thing a person can do.
Looks like they pissed off the wrong folks. I can't stop lurking over there, it is like a car accident.
ETA: the first (almost) FOUR PAGES of TTGP are people protesting.
I've gotten distracted by the bad names on baby names.
Please don't name your kid Cannon people.
How about the people who wanted to name their baby Macklin? All I could think of was Parks and Rec
Duh, whatever nickname you want to give your baby, add a -lyn or -son sound to the end of it.
FSIL actually did this to her twins. The girl is -lyn and the boy is -son and they sound like a couple of rednecks.
That is terrible.
Maybe it is because of my profession but I find slang to be absolutely fascinating and embrace a lot of it because of that. Internet slang is particularly fascinating because of all the acronyms. I'm such a nerd. Lol
Do I dare ask what BD stands for? I'm under a rock when it comes to pregnancy acronyms.
Also, preggo, preggers and preg are all awful and make me legit cringe. Prego just makes me laugh because it reminds me of the bottle marinara sauce.
BD = baby dance
I think I'm in the minority in that I don't have a visceral reaction to slang terms. I generally use the "correct" terms, but don't start gaggin when I hear BD or prego or fur baby or hubby. Fur baby, maybe...but generally very meh on the dumb words people choose or choose not to use.
I'm in that corner with you. I generally don't call much of anything by its superseriousscience name, and don't intend to start. Whateva whateva. Life isn't that serious - you'll never get out alive.
I find it funny that those terms make you "legit" cringe, @hellohkb, but you're fine with the slang abbreviation of "legitimately."
TheBump sucks. The boards suck haha. Every time someone asks a question, people like adding their two cents even if they don't have anything to do with the question.
IE: I have such and such happening to me and I'm 8 weeks, is it normal, has this happened to anyone?
Answer: This hasn't happened to me but, you should go get a pregnancy book.
I mean yeah it's a lame question but i'm thinking the OP wants to know if other pregnant women have experienced it LOL.
I feel like if you are intentionally having sex to intentionally have a baby that you wish to keep as your own, you should be adult enough to use the right words for it all.
That said, I did feel like a naughty teenager buying pregnancy tests the other day. I am almost 32 and it was my first time doing it!
I feel like if you are intentionally having sex to intentionally have a baby that you wish to keep as your own, you should be adult enough to use the right words for it all.
That said, I did feel like a naughty teenager buying pregnancy tests the other day. I am almost 32 and it was my first time doing it!
(the test was negative, for inquiring minds)
Well BD is a lot easier to type out than "sexual intercourse for the purposes of creating human progeny."
I feel like if you are intentionally having sex to intentionally have a baby that you wish to keep as your own, you should be adult enough to use the right words for it all.
That said, I did feel like a naughty teenager buying pregnancy tests the other day. I am almost 32 and it was my first time doing it!
(the test was negative, for inquiring minds)
Well BD is a lot easier to type out than "sexual intercourse for the purposes of creating human progeny."
I honestly think a lot of the TTC and sex slang is pretty clever. Like it or not, over the years, we've (general we) have kind of created a society where talking about anything sexual is considered awkward. We're in a transitional period where our society as a whole is starting to be more open about sexuality but at the same time there is a whole generation of people trying to have babies and talking about it in a more open manner that were taught sex isn't a polite topic of conversation. How do people fight awkward? With humor to make it less intimidating. Cutesy words make it less awkward and intimidating to talk about.
I feel like if you are intentionally having sex to intentionally have a baby that you wish to keep as your own, you should be adult enough to use the right words for it all.
That said, I did feel like a naughty teenager buying pregnancy tests the other day. I am almost 32 and it was my first time doing it!
(the test was negative, for inquiring minds)
Well BD is a lot easier to type out than "sexual intercourse for the purposes of creating human progeny."
I believe they used to just delicately call that "trying."
I feel like if you are intentionally having sex to intentionally have a baby that you wish to keep as your own, you should be adult enough to use the right words for it all.
That said, I did feel like a naughty teenager buying pregnancy tests the other day. I am almost 32 and it was my first time doing it!
(the test was negative, for inquiring minds)
Well BD is a lot easier to type out than "sexual intercourse for the purposes of creating human progeny."
I feel like if you are intentionally having sex to intentionally have a baby that you wish to keep as your own, you should be adult enough to use the right words for it all.
That said, I did feel like a naughty teenager buying pregnancy tests the other day. I am almost 32 and it was my first time doing it!
(the test was negative, for inquiring minds)
Well BD is a lot easier to type out than "sexual intercourse for the purposes of creating human progeny."
I believe they used to just delicately call that "trying."
Ugh see I hate that so much more than the slang. I just imagine some delicate flower housewife blushing over tea, announcing coyly that "we're... (shoots sideways glance at H) TRYING. Teehee!" It falls into the same category as "with child."
The term comes from the FF app though, where they have very limited space to title all the lines on the chart. It's not like I'm gonna call my doctor and tell her we're doing the baby dance.
I feel like if you are intentionally having sex to intentionally have a baby that you wish to keep as your own, you should be adult enough to use the right words for it all.
That said, I did feel like a naughty teenager buying pregnancy tests the other day. I am almost 32 and it was my first time doing it!
(the test was negative, for inquiring minds)
Well BD is a lot easier to type out than "sexual intercourse for the purposes of creating human progeny."
I believe they used to just delicately call that "trying."
The thing is that people aren't being as delicate about it as they were in the past. Besides I think that, while BD might sound a little immature, it gives me the impression of someone being more comfortable with the act of baby making than the term "trying" does. When someone says they are "trying" it just kind of perpetuates the whole sex is awkward and not to be discussed mentality.
Re: Bump Lurkers?
That is terrible.
That said, I did feel like a naughty teenager buying pregnancy tests the other day. I am almost 32 and it was my first time doing it!
(the test was negative, for inquiring minds)
I honestly think a lot of the TTC and sex slang is pretty clever. Like it or not, over the years, we've (general we) have kind of created a society where talking about anything sexual is considered awkward. We're in a transitional period where our society as a whole is starting to be more open about sexuality but at the same time there is a whole generation of people trying to have babies and talking about it in a more open manner that were taught sex isn't a polite topic of conversation. How do people fight awkward? With humor to make it less intimidating. Cutesy words make it less awkward and intimidating to talk about.
I'm the fuck out.
I say fur baby
So, SIFTPOCHP? Time to start the revolution.
The term comes from the FF app though, where they have very limited space to title all the lines on the chart. It's not like I'm gonna call my doctor and tell her we're doing the baby dance.
The thing is that people aren't being as delicate about it as they were in the past. Besides I think that, while BD might sound a little immature, it gives me the impression of someone being more comfortable with the act of baby making than the term "trying" does. When someone says they are "trying" it just kind of perpetuates the whole sex is awkward and not to be discussed mentality.