conceptionmoon

[Laurence Horn]

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>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/nyregion/14pregnant.html
>New York Times, Jan. 14, 2008
>A 2006 survey on BabyCenter.com, a Web site for new parents, showed
>that three quarters of 1,052 participants had taken "conceptionmoons,"
>or baby-making junkets, and 40 percent of those had been successful.

Seems like "crescentmoon" would be more poetic, if less graphic...

LH

>...
>Kyle McCarthy, the editor at familytravelforum.com in New York, a
>resource for traveling parents and families, has seen marketing pushes
>for sequels to the conceptionmoon and babymoon, including
>"familymoons," where newly blended families take all the stepchildren
>and half-siblings on vacation.
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>Here's the Sep. 2006 press release by BabyCenter.com on "conceptionmoons":
>http://www.babycenter.com/pressreleases-1500083
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>Grant Barrett dated "babymoon" back to 1995:
>http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/babymoon/
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>"Familymoon" goes back to 1999 at least:
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>1999 _Leisure Travel News_ 15 (32) 18 (Factiva) The Westin Resort St.
>John is featuring a Yours, Mine and Ours "familymoon" package for
>couples who want to share their second marriage vows with their
>children.
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>--Ben Zimmer
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