Helpful Links and Info

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www.fertilityfriend.com

www.babycenter.com

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Glossary / Acronyms

# | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

~~ # ~~
2WW - Two-week wait until time to take pregnancy test (approximately 14 days after ovulation)

A

AE – Alter Ego
AF - Aunt Flo (menstruation)
AI - Artificial Insemination
AMA - Advanced maternal age
AO - Anovulatory
AP - Adoption Process
AR - Assisted Reproduction
ART - Assisted Reproductive Technology
AW - Attention whore

~~ B ~~
BBs - Breasts
BC - Birth Control
BCP - Birth Control Pills
BBT - Basal Body Temperature
BD - Baby Dance (baby making sex)
BF or BF'ing - Breastfeeding
BFN or BF0 - Big Fat Negative (home pregnancy test result)
BFP - Big Fat Positive (home pregnancy test result)
BIL - Brother-in-Law
BIO - The Nest Baby Community Bio
BM - Bowel Movement or Breast Milk
BOTB - Baby on the Brain (The Nest message board)
BR – Baby Related
BRU - Babies R Us Store
BTW - By the way
BW or B/W - Blood Work


~~ C ~~
C&P – Copy and Paste
CB - Cycle Buddy
CBEFM - Clear Blue Easy Fertility Monitor
CCT – Clomid Challenge Test
CD - Cycle day
CDs - Cloth Diapers
CF - Cervical fluid
CIO - Cry It Out
CL - Corpus Luteum
CM - Cervical Mucus
CNM - Certified Nurse Midwife
Colpo - Colposcopy
CP - Cervical position
CVS - Chorionic Villae Sampling

~~ D ~~
D&C - Dilation & Curettage
DC - Dear/Darling Child
DD - Dear/Darling Daughter or Designated Driver OR Dirty Delete (a post)
DE - Donor Eggs
D&E - Dilation & Evacuation
DH - Dear/Darling Husband
DI - Donor Insemination
DOR - Diminished Ovarian Reserve
DPO - Days past ovulation
DPR = Days Post-Retrieval (eggs)
DPT = Days Post-Transfer
DS - Dear/Darling Son
DTD – Doing the Deed (non-baby related sex)


~~ E ~~
E2 - Estradiol
EBM - Expressed Breast Milk
EDD - Estimated Due Date
ENDO - Endometriosis
EPT - Early Pregnancy Test
ER - Emergency Room
ET - Embryo Transfer
EWCM - Egg White Cervical Mucus

~~ F ~~
FET - Frozen Embryo Transfer
FF or FF'ing - Formula Feeding
FIL – Father in Law
FM - Fertility Monitor
FWP - F* With Purpose (baby making sex)
FMU - First morning urine
FP - Follicular Phase
FRER - First Response Early Response
FSH - Follicle Stimulating Hormone
FTTA - Fertile Thoughts To All
F/U – Follow up
FWIW – for what it’s worth


~~ G ~~
G2G – as an alternative for GTG
GF - Girlfriend
GMA - Geriatric Maternal Age
GP - General Practitioner
GTG – Get Together


~~ H ~~
HCG - Human Chorionic Gonadotropin
H&H - Happy and Healthy
H&H9M – Happy and Healthy nine months
HOM - High Order Multiples
HPT - Home Pregnancy Test
HRT - Hormone Replacement Therapy
HSC - Hysteroscopy
HSG – Hysterosalpingogram
HTH – Hope this helps


~~ I ~~
IB - Implantation Bleeding
IC - Incompetent Cervix
IBS - Irritable Bowel Syndrome
ICSI - Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection
IF - Infertility
IHO – In honor of
IIRC – if I remember correctly
IL’s – In-laws
IM – Intramuscular Injections
IMO – in my opinion
IMHO - In my humble opinion
IMNSHO – in my not so humble opinion
IR- Insulin Resistant
ITA – I totally agree
IUI - Intra-uterine Insemination
IVF - In Vitro Fertilization

~~ J ~~
JK - just kidding
JMO - just my opinion

L

~~ L ~~
LAP - Laparoscopy
LH - Luteinizing Hormone
LIP – Link in Post
LMAO - laughing my ass off
LMFAO - laughing my fat ass off
LMP - Last Menstrual Period
LOL - laughing out loud
LP - Luteal phase
LPD - Luteal Phase Defect
LTD – Long Term Disability

~~ M ~~
MC or m/c - Miscarriage
MF or MFI - Male Factor Infertility
MIL – Mother in Law
M/S or MS - Morning Sickness
MUD – Made up Drama


~~ N ~~
NAK - Nursing at the Keyboard
NBR - Not Baby Related
NFO - Not Finding Out (gender)
NFP - Natural Family Planning
NFT – No Further Text or thoughts
NIP - Nursing In Public
NL – Normal
NMS – Not my style
NP - Nurse Practitioner
NTD - Neural Tube Defect
NWT - New With Tag

~~ O ~~
O - Ovulation
OB - Obstetrician
OB/GYN - Obstetrician/Gynecologist
OC - Oral Contraceptives
OHSS - Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome
OOT – Out of town
OPK - Ovulation Predictor Kit
OPT - Ovulation Predictor Test
OTC - Over-the-counter
OV - Ovulation
OWT - Old Wives Tale


~~ P ~~
P4 - Progesterone
PA - Physician's Assistant
PC - Post-Coital (after sex)
PCO, PCOD - Polycystic Ovary Disease
PCOS (POS) - Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
PCP - Primary Care Physician
PCT - Post-Coital Test
PG - Pregnancy or Pregnant
PI - Primary Infertility
PIAC - Pee In A cup
PIB – Picture in Bio
PID - Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
PIH - Pregnancy Induced Hypertension
PIO – Progesterone in Oil
PIP – Picture in post
PIT – Pitocin
PM – Private Message
PMS - Premenstrual Syndrome
PNV - Prenatal vitamin
POAS - Pee On A Stick
POF – Premature Ovarian Failure
POMF - Pee on My Fingers
Pough - Pee+Cough
PROM - Premature Rupture of Membranes
PSA – Public service announcement
PTL - Preterm labor
PW – Posting Whore
PZ - PregnantZilla (self-centered pregnant woman)

~~ R ~~
RE - Reproductive Endocrinologist
ROTFL - Rolling on the floor laughing
RP - Repost
RPL - Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
RSA - Recurrent Spontaneous Abortion
Rx - Prescription


~~ S ~~
S/A - Sperm/semen analysis
SA – Semen Analysis
SAHD - Stay At Home Dad
SAHM - Stay At Home Mom
SAHW - Stay At Home Wife
SHG - Sonohysterogram
SI - Secondary Infertility
SIL – Sister in Law
SN – Screen Name
Sniss - Sneeze+pee
SO – Significant Other
S/O – Spin Off
SonoHSG - Sonohysterogram
STD - Short Term Disability

~~ T ~~
TCOYF - Taking Charge of Your Fertility (book)
TIA – Thanks in Advance
TL - Tubal Ligation
TMI - To Much Information
TR - Tubal Reversal
TRH - Thyroid Releasing Hormone
TSH - Thyroid Stimulating Hormone
TTA - Trying to Avoid
TTC - Trying To Conceive
TX – Treatment
TY – Thank you


~~ U ~~
UC - Unassisted Childbirth
US or u/s - Ultrasound
UTI - Urinary Tract Infection

~~ V ~~
V - Vasectomy
VBAC - Vaginal birth after caesarian
VR - Vasectomy Reversal


~~ W ~~
WAHM/D - Work at home mom/dad
WBC - White Blood Cells
WDYT – What do you think?
WOHM/D - Work outside home mom/dad
WTEWE - What to Expect When You're Expecting (book)
WTEBE – What to Expect Before You’re Expecting (book)
WWYD – What would you do?

~~ X ~~
XH – Ex-Husband
XP – cut and paste


~~ Y ~~
YGM - you've got mail
YGPM - you've got private message
YI - Yeast infection
YWIA - you're welcome in advance