The term babymoon is, of course, a blend of baby and honeymoon, a mid 16th-century compound word where honey referred to a marriage’s ‘sweetness’ and moon to how long it would last, like the changing aspect of the moon. The expression babymoon was coined in the early 1990s by pregnancy and childbirth author Sheila Kitzinger, who described it as a calm, uninterrupted period of time needed by parents after the birth of a baby so that they could spend time bonding with their new arrival. However, Kitzinger’s original meaning seems to have been eclipsed by the more recent ‘last fling before the baby arrives’ sense.