Pregnancy Forum Abbreviations

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Pregnancy Forum Abbreviations

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2WW – Two weeks wait
A
AC – Assisted Conception
AF - Aunt Flo – Monthly Period
AI - Artificial Insemination
AID - Artificial Insemination With Donor Sperm
AIH - Artificial Insemination With Husband's Or Partner's sperm
AMA - Advanced Maternal Age
AO - Anovulatory
AP - Adoption Process
AR - Assisted Reproduction
ART - Assisted Reproductive Technology
ASAP – As Soon As Possible
AYT – Are You There?
B
BBs – Breasts
BBL – Be Back Later
BC - Birth Control
BCP - Birth Control Pills
BBT - Basal Body Temperature
BD - Baby Dance (baby making sex)
BF or BF'ing – Breastfeeding
BF - Boyfriend
BFN or BF0 - Big Fat Negative (home pregnancy test result)
BFP - Big Fat Positive (home pregnancy test result)
BIL - Brother-in-Law
BM - Breast Milk
BMS – Baby Making Sex
BRB – Be Right Back
BTW – By The Way
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
CM - Cervical Mucus
CNM - Certified Nurse Midwife
CP - Cervical Position
CS – Cesarean Section
CVS - Chorionic Villae Sampling
D
D&C - Dilation & Curettage
DD – Due Date
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
FWIW – For What It's Worth
G
GF -Girl Friend
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
HTH – Hope This Helps
I
IB - Implantation Bleeding
IC - Incompetent Cervix
IBS - Irritable Bowel Syndrome
ICSI - Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection
IF – Infertility
IKWYM – I Know What You Mean
IM - Intramuscular
IR- Insulin Resistant
ITA – I Totally Agree
IUI - Intra-uterine Insemination
IVF - In Vitro Fertilization
J
JMHO – Just My Humble Opinion
JK – Just Kidding
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
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
POV – Point of View
PROM - Premature Rupture of Membranes
PTL - Preterm labor
PZ - PregnantZilla (self-centered pregnant woman)
R
RE - Reproductive Endocrinologist
RE – Rolling Eyes
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
SD – Step Daughter
SHG - Sonohysterogram
SI - Secondary Infertility
Sniss – Sneeze+pee
SO – Significant Other
SonoHSG – Sonohysterogram
STBX – Soon to be EX
STD - Short Term Disability
T
TCOYF - Taking Charge of Your Fertility (book)
TL - Tubal Ligation
TMI - To Much Information
TOM – Time of Month
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
WTC -Waiting to Conceive
WWYD – What Would You Do?
Y
YI - Yeast infection
YW - You're Welcome

[mom2boys]

Thank you for posting this reference guide for abbreviations, for the longest time I couldn't figure out what the D in DH stood for... I thought maybe it was Da Husband, LOL.

[admin]

Would you like the ability to type acronyms in a post and have them automatically display as the expanded phrase? So you can type NBR and have it show up as Not Baby Related.

[mom2boys]

Wow. That would be really cool if it is an option.

[irving]

I'd find that helpful as well. Especially since I don't know all the acronyms by heart, it would make things easier for me to read. Of course, some people will use acronyms that aren't in the system, but I think it would greatly improve communication between all readers.

[admin]

Great. Just wanted to check first, as I thought maybe some people just like using acronyms for acronyms sake

I'll start with the most common and slowly add acronyms as I notice people using them.