Parenting Dictionary: Complete Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Parenting Terms
Need for Parenting Dictionary
New parents encounter many professional terms they hear for the first time at hospitals, in parenting communities, and in parenting books. The Parenting Dictionary is provided to easily search and understand medical terms, parenting abbreviations, and foreign terms.
Major Medical Terms
- Jaundice: Condition where newborn's skin and whites of eyes turn yellow
- Meconium: Newborn's first stool, greenish-black
- Newborn Erythema: Red spots appearing a few days after birth, naturally disappear
- Infant Colic: Severe crying of unknown cause within 3 months of birth
- Fontanelle: Soft spot on baby's head
- Developmental Screening: Test to assess infant development status
Parenting Community Terms
- Exclusive Breastfeeding: Complete breastfeeding
- Exclusive Formula: Complete formula feeding
- Mixed Feeding: Combination feeding (breast milk + formula)
- Weaning Complete: Completion of weaning
- 100 Days Celebration: Celebration commemorating 100 days after birth
- First Birthday Celebration: Celebration commemorating first birthday
- First Birthday Selection: Traditional event where baby chooses objects on first birthday
International Parenting Terms
- Tummy Time: Prone position practice (neck muscle development)
- Sleep Training: Sleep education
- Baby-led Weaning: Baby-led weaning
- Developmental Milestone: Development milestone