When Worlds Collide

[mamajoan]

Over on the April 2006 Expecting Club board, which by the way I really have to stop reading because it just annoys the crap out of me most of the time, I noticed that some of the more experienced moms -- i.e., the ones for whom this isn't their first pregnancy -- have taken to using a new acronym. They now refer to the first-time moms on the board as FTMs.

Heh.

Well, if you're like me, you see FTM and think female-to-male transsexual. Okay, it's not out of the realm of possibility to find one of those on a pregnancy board ... but I'm gonna have to say it's fairly unlikely. ;)

Man, it sure is weird when worlds collide like that. ;) I'm almost certainly the only person who reads that board who has that association with the acronym FTM. I think I'm just plain too weird for that board, basically. ;)

Comments

[mofic.livejournal.com]

LOL! I actually know a number of FtMs who gave birth, but I agree it's a little on the unusual side.

I feel the same way about "bf" to mean "boy friend" when I think it means "breastfeeding."

Oh, and it reminded me of a Hebrew School Committee meeting a couple of years ago when the principal told us that several of the teachers wouldn't be coming back next year because they are "in transition." I asked what she meant and she detailed that one was getting married and moving to where her husband got a job, another was finishing rabbinical school and looking for a full-time rabbi job, etc. I said, "Oh! Where I come from 'in transition' means something else entirely."

Okay, I guess I'm too weird for that board, too.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way about "bf" to mean "boy friend" when I think it means "breastfeeding."
Yes! And even worse, people with little babies use "bm" for both breastmilk and bowel movement!!

LOL at the transition example. I've definitely run into that one too.

[kneidlach.livejournal.com]

That is freaking hilarious! One of my good friends is an FTM who's pregnant, but he's won't be an FTM... he'll be a STD (second time dad). Haha! Oh, acronyms.

[fawnapril.livejournal.com]

I think I know of another FTM who will be giving birth in a few months. It surprises me that they are not the only one!