2WW: Two week wait (before testing, not always 2 weeks)

AF: Aunt Flo, menstruation

BBT: Basal body temperature

BC/BCP: Birth Control Pill

BD: Baby dance. This means having sex for conceptive purposes, or any other form of insemination such as IUI or IVF. (The Ava community invented their own term for this. See entry for “GSD” below.)

BFN: Big Fat Negative (pregnancy test)

BFP: Big Fat Positive (pregnancy test)

CD: Cycle day

CM: Cervical mucus.

CP: Chemical pregnancy (a very early miscarriage)

DPO: Days past ovulation

EWCM: Egg white cervical mucus, the most fertile kind.

FSH: Follicle Stimulating Hormone

FMU: First Morning Urine

FP: Follicular Phase

FRER: First response early result pregnancy test

GSD: Get Shit Done, or do what you need to do to make a baby (sex, IUI, IVF…)

HPT: Home pregnancy test. Measures levels of the hormone hcG.

HSG: hysterosalpingogram, a test that looks inside the uterus and fallopian tubes.

HcG: Human Chorionic Gonadotropin. Hormone detected by pregnancy tests.

IUI: Intra-uterine insemination

IVF: In-vitro fertilization

LH: Luteinizing Hormone

LMP: Last menstrual period. The first day of your last period.

LP: Luteal Phase

LPD: Luteal Phase Defect

MC: Miscarriage

MFI: Male Factor Infertility

NTNP: Not Trying, Not Preventing

O: Ovulation

OPK: Ovulation Prediction Kit. OPKs measure luteinizing hormone, which surges about one day before ovulation.

PCOS: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

POAS: Pee on a stick

RE: Reproductive Endocrinologist

SA: Semen analysis

SMEP: Sperm Meets Egg Plan

TCOYF: “Taking Charge of Your Fertility,” a book by Toni Weschler about how to monitor your body’s natural fertility signs.

TTC: Trying to Conceive

TWW: Two Week Wait, the roughly two week period between when you ovulate and when you’re supposed to get your period (and when you can take a pregnancy test)

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