Thought this might help some of our newbies! I sure could have used it when I started!

AF ... Aunt Flo (menstruation)
BBT ... Basal Body Temperature
BD...Baby Dancing (Love Making)
BCP ... Birth Control Pills
BFN...Big Fat Negative (Pregnancy Test Negative)
BFP...Big Fat Positive (Pregnancy Test Positive)
BOB...Baby on the Brain
B/W, b/w ... Blood Work
CB ... Cycle Buddy
CD ... Cycle Day
CL...Community Leader
CM ... Cervical Mucus
D&C ... Dilation & Curettage
DH... Dear Husband
DI ... Donor Insemination
DPO ... Days Past Ovulation
DPIUI ... Days Past IUI
DTD ... Do The Deed or Did The Deed
ET ... Embryo Transfer
EW...Egg White Consistency (related to CM)
EWCM ... Egg White Cervical Mucous
FET ... Frozen Embryo Transfer
FSH ... Follicle Stimulating Hormone
GP ... General Practitioner
HPT ... Home Pregnancy Test
HSG ... Hysterosalpingogram
HTH ... Hope That Helps
ICI ... Intra-cervical Insemination
ICSI ... Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (where they fertilize an egg by directly injecting a single sperm)
IF ... Infertility
IUI ... Intra-uterine Insemination
IVF ... In Vitro Fertilization
KUP ... Keep Us Posted
KWIM...Know What I Mean
LAP ... Laparoscopy
LH ... Luteinizing Hormone
LMP ... Last Menstrual Period (start date)
LOL ... Laughing Out Loud or Lots Of Love
LOSS or L.O.S.S. ... Letting Off Some Steam - used to identify new threads intended for venting! It's a cycle buddies thing!
LPD ... Luteal Phase Defect
MC, m/c, misc. ... Miscarriage
MTHFR ... Methylene-Tetra-Hydro-Folate-Reductase (genetic inc. risk for m/c) hetero: 1 copy gene homo: 2 copies gene
NP ... Nurse Practitioner
O ... Ovulation
OB/GYN ... Obstetrician/Gynecologist
OMG ... Oh My Goodness!
OPK ... Ovulation Predictor Kit
OT or O/T...Off Topic
PCO, PCOD ... Polycystic Ovary Disease
PCOS ... Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
PG ... Pregnant
PID ... Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
PMS ... Pre-menstrual Syndrome
POAS ... Pee On A Stick (take a pregnancy test)
PPAF ... Post Partum Aunt Flow (1st period after pregnancy)
RE ... Reproductive Endocrinologist
RI ... Reproductive Immunologist
ROTFLMAO ... Rolling on the floor laughing my a$$ off
SA ... Semen or Sperm Analysis
STD ... Sexually Transmitted Disease
TR ... Tubal Reversal
TTC ... Trying to Conceive
US, u/s ... Ultrasound
UTI ... Urinary Tract Infection
VR ... Vasectomy Reversal
*IL ... *(whatever) In Law


Girls...if you see anything that's left out, just add a post

ICSI = Intracytoplasmic sperm injection

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Not-not: Not trying, not preventing (as in, not actively charting or overly obsessing, but not on BCP or preventing in any way)

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Mthfr?

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Missy

TTC 4 years
mc 9/06- molar pregnancy
Started Clomid, yuck
IUI 12/1, 3/4
Missed IUI #2 due to gall bladder surgery 1/4
u/s scheduled for 4/4- follies too big and too small skipped IUI
June- triggered and on prometrium...bfn
July- taking cycle off, I'm broke! Babies cost too much!

L.O.S.S.- Letting off some steam
HTH- Hope this helps

Thanks Tkeys and MaryBeth! LOL

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T/r- tubal reversal

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Katrina came up with a new one that I wanted to add:

H.A.O.E = Has AnyOne Experienced.... ?

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i have a list over on ttc 2+years ...i also just posted it on the 2ww board ...if you want to compare

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Michelle (25) and Brad (28)

HOST OF TTC 2+ YEARS
HOST OF Alternative/Herbal/Non-Traditional

that helped me alot lol me anf my fiance were sitting here trying to figure out wat BFN and BFP meant he guessed big f***ing neg/pos lol he was close

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JAN: Started TTC
FEB:
MARCH: MC at 8 weeks
APRIL:
MAY:
JUNE:

I just saw this today and it cracked me up! That is probably what we FEEL like calling the BFNs sometimes!!

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