Re: FEMARA & FERTILITY INFORMATION (no posting here please_
These are some abbreviations you may encounter while on the boards:
2WW: Two-week wait (until you can take a pregnancy test)
AF: aunt flo (your period)
AFK: Away from keyboard
AP: Attachment parenting
BBT: Basal Body Temperature
BD: Baby dance, sex
BF: Breastfed or breastfeeding
BFN: Big Fat Negative (test result)
BFP: Big Fat Positive (test result)
BM: Breast milk or bowel movement (depends on context)
BMS: Baby-making sex
BTDT: Been there, done that
BTW: By the way...
CB: Cycle Buddy (someone who shares the same menstrual cycle/ovulation dates)
CD: Cycle day
CF: Cervical fluid
CL: Corpus luteum
CM: Cervical mucus
CP: Cervical position
CY: Cycle
DI: Donor Insemination
DP: "Dancing" partner; spouse or significant other
DPO: Days past ovulation
DTD: Doing the dance, sex
DH: darling/dear husband
DD: dear daughter
DS: dear son
DW: darling wife
EW: Eggwhite (re: consistency of cervical mucus)
FSOT: For sale or trade
FTTA: Fertile Thoughts To All
FWIW: For what it's worth
FYI: For your information
FMU: First morning urine
hcG: Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (pregnancy hormone)
HPT: Home Pregnancy Test
HSG: hysterosalpinogram (xray dye test to check for open tubes)
HTH: Hope that helps
IF: Infertility
IME: In My Experience
IMHO: In my humble opinion
IMNSHO: In my not so humble opinion
IMO: In my opinion
IOW: In other words
IUI: Intra-uterine Insemination
IVF: In Vitro Fertilization
J/K: Just kidding
KWIM: Know what I mean?
KWYM: I know what you mean
LH: luteinizing hormone
LP: Luteal phase
LMAO: Laughing my (rear) off
LMK: Let me know
LMP: Last Menstrual Period
LOL: Laughing out loud
MIL, FIL, DIL, SIL: mother/father/daughter/son or sister-in-law
O: Ovulation
OHT: One-handed typing
OPK: Ovulation predictor kit
OT: Off topic
OTOH: On the other hand
PCOS (POS): Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
PG: Pregnancy, pregnant
PITA: Pain in the (rear)
POAS: pee on a stick (as in pg tests or OPK's)
ROFLMAO: Rolling on the floor laughing my (rear) off
S/A: Sperm/semen analysis
SAHM: Stay-at-home mom
SO: Significant other
TCOYF: Taking Charge of Your Fertility (book)
TDM: Too darn many
TIA: Thanks in advance
TIC: Tongue in cheek
TTC: Trying to conceive
TTYL: Talk to you later
WAHM: Work-at-home mom
WOHM: Work-outside-home mom
WRT: With regards to
WTB: Want to buy
YMMV: Your mileage may vary (i.e. you may get different results)
If there are any others you would like me to add, please let me know!
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