Babymoon
Also called baby moon, babymoons, babymooning
A babymoon is a holiday a couple takes before their baby is born. The word first meant something else: the calm early weeks parents spend at home with their newborn.
How it's said
Babymoon is snuggling in with your newborn. Destination: your bed!
All my friends use "Babymoon" to mean last holiday as a couple before baby is born.
"Baby moon" or holiday with baby next year?
Who says it
Where it came from
Babymoon is a blend of baby and honeymoon. Childbirth writer Sheila Kitzinger is credited with coining it in the 1990s, in her book The Year After Childbirth, for the quiet time after a birth when parents stay home with their new baby. That echoes the old sense of a honeymoon as the sweet first month after a wedding.
Later the word took on the honeymoon's travel sense. A 2007 handbook called going on a babymoon the trendiest new trend among expectant parents.
Today dictionaries define it as a holiday for a couple before their baby is born, and that is the sense on the rise in the travel industry.