Abbreviations - Harrisburg,PA

So glad you asked! I've wanted to know for a long time, and Mel did a darn good job of answering that question for both of us!

Here is another huge long list from another website I belong to:

AAFP: American Academy of Family Physicians
AAP: American Academy of Pediatrics
AF: Aunt Flo (menstruation)
AFK: Away from keyboard
AIM: Artificial Infant Milk (or AOL Instant Messenger)
AKA: Also Known As
AP: Attachment parenting
AROM: Artificial Rupture of Membranes
ASAP: As Soon As Possible
ATTN: Attention
AV: Avatar
BC: Birth Control
BCP: Birth Control Pill
BD: Baby Dance (sex)
BF: Breastfed or breastfeeding
BF: Boyfriend
BFN: Big Fat Negative (negative pregnancy test)
BFP: Big Fat Positive (positive pregnancy test)
BIL: Brother-in-law
BM: Breast milk or bowel movement (depends on context)
BTDT: Been there, done that
BTW: By the way...
CD: Cloth Diaper(ing)
CD1: Cycle Day 1 (first day of period)
CF: Child Free
CIO: Cry-It-Out (sleep training)
Circ: Circumcision
CM: Cervical Mucous
C&P: Cut and Paste
CS: Co-sleep
DCP: Day Care Provider
DD: Dear daughter
DF: Dear Friend or Fiance
DH: Dear husband
DIL: Daughter-in-law
DPO: Days Past Ovulation
DS: Dear son
DSD: Dear stepdaughter
DSS: Dear stepson
DW: Dear wife
EBF: Extended Breastfeeding or exclusively breast fed
EBM: Expressed Breast Milk
EC: Elimination Communication
EDD: Estimated Due Date
EN: Extended Nursing
EP: Exclusively Pumping
ETA: Edited To Add
EWCM: Egg White Cervical Mucus
FAQ: Frequently asked questions
FF: Formula Fed/Feeding
FF: Fast forward
FIL: Father-in-law
FMLA: Family and Medical Leave Act
FSOT: For sale or trade
FTR: For The Record
FTT: Failure To Thrive
F/U: Follow up
FYA: For your amusement
FYI: For your information
FWIW: For what it's worth
F2F: Face-to-face
GBCF: Goodbye Cruel Forum
GSE: Grapefruit Seed Extract
GV: Gentian Violet
HB: home birth
HCP: Health Care Provider
HE: High efficency (Usually a washing machine)
HED: High efficency detergent
HPT: Home Pregnancy Test
HS: home schooling
HTH: Hope that helps
H2H: Heart to Heart
IBCLC: International Board Certified Lactation Consultant
IBTC: Itty Bitty Titty Committee
IIRC: If I recall correctly
ILs: In-laws
IMAO: In my arrogant opinion
IME: In my experience
IMHO: In my humble opinion
IMNSHO: In my not so humble opinion
IMO: In my opinion
IOW: In other words
IRL: In real life
IRT: In real time
ISO: In Search Of
ISP: Internet service provider
J/K: Just kidding
JMHO: Just my humble opinion
JMO: Just my opinion
KWIM: Know what I mean?
KWYM: I know what you mean
LC: Lactation Consultant
LLL: La Leche League
LMAO: Laughing my (rear) off
LMK: Let me know
LO: Little one
LOL: Lots of laughs or laughing out loud
MDC: mothering.com or Motheringdotcommune
MIL: Mother-in-law
M/S: morning sickness
NAK: Nursing At Keyboard
NC: or no-circ - Non-Circumcised
NFP: Natural Family Planning
NIP: Nursing In Public
NIP: New in Package
NP: No problem
NV: Non Vaccinating
NWOT: New without tags
NWT: new with tags
OALD: Over-Active Let Down
O'ed: ovulated
OHT: One-handed typing
OMG: Oh My God
OP: Original Post/Poster
OPK: Ovulation Predictor Kit
OT: Off topic
OTSBH: Over The Shoulder Baby Holder (brand of baby sling)
OW/OM: Other woman/other man
PAK: Pumping at Keyboard
PCP: Primary Care Physician
PIS: Pump In Style (breastpump by Medella)
PITA: Pain In The A$$
PLMK: Please let me know
PM: Private Message
POAS: Pee On A Stick
POTW: Person Of The Week
POV: Point of view
PPD: Post-Partum Depression
PPP: Post-Partum Psychosis
PSA: Public Service Announcement
RL: Real life
ROFL: Rolling on the floor laughing
ROFLMAO: Rolling on the floor laughing my (rear) off
ROFLMHO: Rolling on floor laughing my head off
ROTFLMAOPMP: Rolling on the floor laughing my *** off peeing my pants
SAHD: Stay-at-home dad
SAHM: Stay-at-home mom
SIL: Sister-in-law or Son-in-law
SNS: Supplemental Nursing System
SO: Significant other
S/O: Spin Off
STBX: Soon to be Ex (spouse)
TIA: Thanks in advance
TMI: Too Much Information
TO:Tea Tree Oil
TTC: Trying to conceive
TY: Thank you
TYVM: Thank you very much
UB: Unassisted Birth
UTI: Urinary Tract Infection
URL: Web page address
Vax: Vaccination
VF: vaccination free
WAHD: Work-at-home dad
WAHM: Work-at-home mom
WHO: World Health Organization
WIC: Women, Infants, and Children (US gov assistance program)
WOHD: Work-outside-home dad
WOHM: Work-outside-home mom
WTG: Way To Go
XH: Ex-Husband
YAGE: Yet Another Grand Exit
YK: You Know?
YW: You're welcome

I don't know a lot of them- but I have figured out-
DS- dear son?
dd- dear daughter
dh- dear husband
SIL- sister-in-law
MIL- mother-in-law
FIL- father in law

That's about it for me... ;)

LOL - laugh out loud or lots of laughs (ha ha ha)
DH - darling/damn husband
DB - darling/damn boyfriend
BF - breastfeeding
u/s - ultrasound
MIL/SIL/FIL/BIL - mother/sister/father/brother in law
DD/DS - darling daughter/son
PG - pregnant

Google for internet abbreviations and you'll get long lists of things, lol!

K. B
mom to 5 including triplets

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HarrisburgPAChat
events and chat within 2 hour radius

or DD and DS...I would like to know as well and where did it start from...I would guess from the context it was written, dear son, or dear daughter, but others are not easily identified...I am with you there in those abbreviations.

For the mom who wonders where it came from, my guess is teens too lazy to text full words. :) I learned most of my abbreviations from the teens we work with. There was a similar question, but I can't seem to find it right now. One mom had posted a website that gave several hundred (!!!) abbreviations. I can't imagine knowing and using that many! It's funny though, after texting our teens, I've found that I sometimes do the abbreviations without thinking about it. Two I use are BTW, by the way, and TMI, too much information. Have fun learning the new language! And GL! :)

GL = good luck (I think)
HTH = hope this helps
LO = little one

I know a couple darling son, darling daughter DS, DD. SS - stepson, SO - sig. other. TTC - trying to conceive.