Here is a list of TTC terms (courtesy of the GP Nest Blog):
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2WW – Two-week wait until time to take pregnancy test (approximately 14 days after ovulation)
a
AF – Aunt Flo (menstruation)
AI – Artificial Insemination
AMA – Advanced maternal age
AO – Anovulatory
AP – Adoption Process
AR – Assisted Reproduction
ART – Assisted Reproductive Technology
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)
BRU – Babies R Us Store
BW or B/W – Blood Work
c
CB – Cycle Buddy
CBEFM – Clear Blue Easy Fertility Monitor
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
DD – Dear/Darling Daughter or Designated Driver
DC – Dear/Darling Child
D&E – Dilation & Evacuation
DH – Dear/Darling Husband
DI – Donor Insemination
DPO – Days past ovulation
DS – Dear/Darling Son
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
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
g
GMA – Geriatric Maternal Age
GP – General Practitioner
h
HCG – Human Chorionic Gonadotropin
H&H – Happy and Healthy
HOM – High Order Multiples
HPT – Home Pregnancy Test
HRT – Hormone Replacement Therapy
HSC – Hysteroscopy
HSG – Hysterosalpingogram
i
IB – Implantation Bleeding
IC – Incompetent Cervix
IBS – Irritable Bowel Syndrome
ICSI – Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection
IF – Infertility
IM – Intramuscular
IR- Insulin Resistant
IUI – Intra-uterine Insemination
IVF – In Vitro Fertilization
l
LAP – Laparoscopy
LH – Luteinizing Hormone
LMP – Last Menstrual Period
LP – Luteal phase
LPD – Luteal Phase Defect
m
MC – Miscarriage
MF – Male Factor Infertility
MS – Morning Sickness
n
NAK – Nursing at the Keyboard
NBR – Not Baby Related
NFO – Not Finding Out (gender)
NFP – Natural Family Planning
NIP – Nursing In Public
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
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
PID – Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
PIH – Pregnancy Induced Hypertension
PIT – Pitocin
PMS – Premenstrual Syndrome
PNV – Prenatal vitamin
POAS – Pee On A Stick
POMF – Pee on My Fingers
Pough – Pee+Cough
PROM – Premature Rupture of Membranes
PTL – Preterm labor
PZ – PregnantZilla (self-centered pregnant woman)
r
RE – Reproductive Endocrinologist
RPL – Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
RSA – Recurrent Spontaneous Abortion
s
S/A – Sperm/semen analysis
SAHD – Stay At Home Dad
SAHM – Stay At Home Mom
SAHW – Stay At Home Wife
SHG – Sonohysterogram
SI – Secondary Infertility
Sniss – Sneeze+pee
SonoHSG – Sonohysterogram
STD – Short Term Disability
t
TCOYF – Taking Charge of Your Fertility (book)
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
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
WOHM/D – Work outside home mom/dad
WTEWE – What to Expect When You’re Expecting (book)
y
YI – Yeast infection
