So, you’re trying to conceive. You’ve been trying for a few months and you’re looking for a little support from other women in the same situation and have a question that you could use some advice on. So you decide to join some Facebook groups and forums for support and advice but every post reads something like this;
“DH and I have been TTC for a second child for 3 years. We already have one DD who is 6. I have been tracking my fertile window with OPKs, CM and BBT. I have a 32 day cycle and I normally ovulate on CD 20. I’m 7dpo and have symptoms including nausea, sore breasts and a metallic taste in my mouth. I have done an EPT but it was a BFN. Should I retest in a few days or should I just wait for AF to show? I hate the tww!”
And you’re just sat there like, ‘what?! What does all this mean?? What secret language is this?!’
Well, I’ve come to help you as I was in exactly the same situation.
Here are all of the popular and most commonly used trying to conceive acronyms so that you can become an expert in no time!
Make sure that you keep checking back as I’ll be updating this list with more that I find and remember!
A
AF – Auntie flow (period)
AI – Artificial insemination
B
BBT – Basal body temperature
BC – Birth control
BCP – Birth control pill
BD – Baby dance (sex)
BFN – Big fat negative (negative pregnancy test)
BFP – Big fat positive (positive pregnancy test)
BMS – Baby making sex
BT – Blood test
C
CB – Cycle buddy – someone who is at the same stage of ovulating/testing
CD – Cycle day
CM/CF – Cervical mucus/cervical fluid
CP – Chemical pregnancy
D
DE – Donor egg/embryo
DH/DP/DW – Dear husband/dear partner/dear wife
DPO – Days past ovulation
DPT – Days past embryo transfer
DS/DD – Dear son/dear daughter
DTD – Do the deed (have sex!)
E
EPT- Early pregnancy test
EWCM – Egg white cervical mucus
F
FET – Frozen embryo transfer
FMU – First morning urine
FRER – First Response Early Result (a brand of pregnancy test)
G
H
HPT – Home pregnancy test
I
IB – Implantation bleeding (a small amount of bleeding or spotting that sometimes happens when the embryo implants in your womb)
IF – Infertility
IUI – Intrauterine insemination
IVF – In vitro fertilisation
J
K
L
LMP – Last menstrual period
M
MC – Miscarriage
MW – Midwife
N
O
OAD – One and done (referring to only having one child)
OPKs/OPT – Ovulation predictor kit/Ovulation predictor test
OTD – Official test day (to take a pregnancy test)
P
PCOS – Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
PG – Pregnant
POAS – Pee on a stick (pregnancy test)
PUPO – Pregnant until proven otherwise
Q
R
S
SA – Semen analysis
SD – Sperm doner
T
TTC – Trying to conceive
TW – Trigger warning
TWW – Two week wait (the wait from ovulation to official test day)
U
US – Ultrasound
V
W
X
Y
Z
Are there any trying to conceive acronyms you would add or any that you didn’t know? Let me know in the comments!
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