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Guide to BabyFit Message Board Codes

A Quick Reference for Navigating the Boards
-- By BabyFit Support

Welcome to the BabyFit Message Boards! Throughout the forums you will find people using common acronyms or codes as a shortened way to communicate a common word or phrase. Here is an alphabetical list of the most commonly used shortcuts. Use this as a quick reference as you navigate the boards.
  • 2WW: 2-week waiting time from ovulation to the start of menstruation (or to a sign of pregnancy when menstruation is late)
  • A: "Aunt Flo" (menstruation, period)

  • AP: attachment parenting
  • BB or BBS: Internet bulletin board(s)

  • BBL: be back later

  • BBT: basal body temperature

  • BCPS: birth control pills

  • BD: Baby dancing (sex intended for conception)

  • BF: breastfeed(ing), or boyfriend

  • BFN/BFP: big fat negative/positive on a home pregnancy test

  • BIL: brother: in: law

  • BM: breast milk, or bowel movement

  • BOB: "battery-operated boyfriend"

  • BRB: be right back

  • BT: blood test

  • BTDT: been there, done that

  • BTW: by the way

  • BUMP: noting that you are "bumping" a message board thread to the top of the page
  • CD: cycle day

  • CF: cervical fluid

  • CIO: cry it out

  • Circ: circumcise

  • CM: cervical mucus

  • CP: cervical position

  • CWIM: see what I mean

  • CS or C/S: Cesarean section

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