AF – Aunt Flo; your period
BBT – Basal Body Temperature
BD – Baby-Dance, aka Sexy-Time
BFN – Big Fat Negative HPT
BFP – Big Fat Positive HPT
CD – Cycle Day
CM – Cervical Mucus
DPO – Days Past Ovulation
DTD – Doing the Deed (or Doing the Dirty, depending on what kinda mood I’m in.)
EWCM – Eggwhite Cervical Mucus, the most fertile kind. It resembles eggwhites. Gross, huh?
HPT – Home Pregnancy Test
HSG – Hysterosalpingogram (an x-ray procedure done to check if your fallopian tubes are clear)
IUI – Intrauterine Insemination (AKA, the turkey-baster method)
IVF – In Vitro Fertilization
LP – Luteal Phase (the days between OV and AF)
Ob-Gyn – Obstetrician-Gynecologist (lady-parts doctor)
OV – Ovulation
OPK – Ovulation Predictor Kit
POAS – Pee On A Stick (HPT)
PG – Pregnant
RE – Reproductive Endocrinologist (doctor who specializes in fertility issues)
S/E – Side-Effects
SA – Semen Analysis
TMI – Too Much Information (you’ll get a lot of that here)
TTC – Trying To Conceive
TWW – Two Week Wait (horrifying length of time between OV and when you can POAS)
U/S – Ultrasound
this is so helpfull im new to all this and dont know half the things ppl at talking about because its all ‘codes’
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