AF – Aunt Flo (periods)
ART – Assisted Reproductive Technology
BBT – Basal body temperature
BC/BCP – Birth control/ Birth control pills
Baby dust – a way of wishing someone good luck in when trying to get pregnant
BD – Baby dancing (sex)
BFN – Big fat negative (pregnancy test)
BFP – Big fat positive (pregnancy test)
BW – Bloodwork
CB – Cycle buddy
CD – Cycle day
CM – Cervical mucus
CP – Chemical pregnancy or cervical position
DBO – Days before ovulation
DH, DW, DP, DS, DD, DF, DB – Dear husband, Dear wife, dear partner, dear son, dear daughter, dear fiancé, dear boyfriend
DSD, DSS – dear step daughter, dear stepson
DPT – Days Past Transfer
DTD – Do the Deed (have intercourse)
DI – Donor Insemination
DPO – Days past ovulation
DX – diagnosis
E2 – Estradiol
EP – Ectopic Pregnancy
ER – Egg Retrieval
ET – Embryo Transfer
EW or EWCM – Egg White or Egg White Cervical Mucus (description of cervical mucus at ovulation time)
FET – Frozen Embryo Transfer (or fertilized egg transfer)
FSH – Follicle Stimulating Hormone
FRER – First Response Early Result
FX – Fingers Cross
FYI – For your information
GIFT – Gamete Intrafallopian Transfer
GD – Gestational Diabetes
hCG – Human chorionic gonadotropin (known as the ‘pregnancy hormone’; hormone that is measured in a pregnancy test)
HPT – Home pregnancy test
HSG – Hysterosalpingogram (an X-ray to test for shape of uterus and any blockages that may be in the fallopian tubes)
Hx – History
IB – Implantation bleeding (light spotting or light bleeding when a fertilized egg is being implanted into uterus)
ICSI – Intracytoplasmic Sperm Insertion
IUI – Intrauterine Insemination
IVF – In Vitro Fertilization
L&D Labor and delivery
LH – Luteinizing hormone (hormone that triggers the release of an egg from the ovary; hormone measured in ovulation tests)
LMP – Last menstrual period (first day of your last period)
LP – Luteal phase (second half of the menstrual cycle; starts after ovulation day)
LPD – Luteal Phase Defect (ovaries don’t produce enough progesterone and/or progesterone isn’t responding to uterine lining)
LUF – Luteinized unruptured follicle (Occurs when the dominant egg follicle does not rupture. Considered a cause for ovulation failure and infertility)
MIL, FIL, BIL, SIL – mother in law, father in law, brother in law, sister-in-law
M/C – Miscarriage
M/S – Morning sickness
MW -Midwife
NP – Nurse practitioner
O – Ovulation
OB – Obstetrician
OHSS – Ovarian Hyper Stimulation Syndrome
OI – Ovulation Induction
OPK – Ovulation predictor test kit
OPU – Ovum (Egg) Pick Up
PdG – Progesterone (hormone triggered after ovulation occurs; helps maintain uterine lining for a pregnancy)
PG – Pregnant
PCOS – Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
POAS – Pee On A Stick
POF – Premature Ovarian Failure
Rainbow baby – a baby born after having a stillbirth or miscarriage
RE – Reproductive endocrinologist
SA – Semen analysis (common fertility test in males)
S/B – Stillbirth
SD – Stepdaughter or Sperm Donor
SMEP – Sperm meets egg plan (method of TTC)
SS – Stepson
SO – Significant other
TI – Timed Intercourse
TIA – Thanks in advance
TMI – Too much information
TTC – Trying to conceive
TWW- Two Week Window
U/S – Ultrasound
VVFL – Very very faint line
2WW – 2 week wait (wait after ovulation when TTC)