2nd Trimester

This may be silly, but I'm asking since I'm a newbie still...

Who has the list of all the abbreviations?  This prego-brained woman is struggling!

Re: This may be silly, but I'm asking since I'm a newbie still...

  • It's down on the left under "Bump Board Glossary"
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  • Still getting settled in...  THANKS THANKS THANKS!
  • HAHA! Thanks for asking, cause I was wondering the same thing ; )
  • 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
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