conceptionmoon

[Charles Doyle]

And now that pregnancy (along with other devices for acquiring cute children) is chic among Hollywood stars, the term "baby bump" has become ubiquitous on tabloid TV.

--Charlie
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>Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:48:42 -0500
>From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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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

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