New here, introducing myself :)

amyjjohnson1

Hi everyone. Since I'm brand new here I thought I'd introduce myself, I'm Amy, I'm 36 and recently married. I thought I'd jump in and say hi.  We just started TTC, you'll have to forgive me I am not familiar with all the abbreviations still. I'm hoping to get advice and support and offer the same.  Nice to meet you all!

~Amy

Samuelismomma

Welcome! Good luck on your journey:)

URMySunshine77

@amyjjohnson1:

Welcome and congratulations on your recent marriage! I am also 36 and new to the board.

I hope that your stay is a short one.

Davie813

Welcome, congratulations on your wedding, and best of luck!

ksgsmu

Welcome!  Congrats on your marriage!  Hope your stay is short and sweet!  We look forward to getting to know you in the meantime!

KirstenAlecia

Welcome Amy! Glad yu are here and hope your stay is short! 

kindershlitz

Congrats and good luck!

ewenner

Welcome!  

fabumama

Welcome!

hooligans4

Welcome to the board.
Congrats on the wedding. Jump on in to our pool of crazy. Only kidding about the crazy(maybe). This board is wonderful. We are full of knowledge and support when you need it.
If you are ttc for the first time in your life you might have a ton of questions, please don't be shy about asking. Most of us have been there and done that.

So welcome and good luck.

latershrader

Welcome! Good luck on your TTC journey. Hopefully you won't have to be here too long! Take advantage of the weekly check-in posted on most Wednesdays. It's a good way to see where everyone is at in their TTC adventures and share your own story!

jenfer916

Welcome!

BeckyP005

Welcome and Congrats on getting married!

C_Girlie

Hi Amy, welcome to the board hoping your stay will be short & sweet. Congrats on the marriage, have fun BD'ing

saucymonkeygirl

We're in the same boat/vote! I'm 36 as well and just started TTC. I'm not familiar with all of the abbreviations either and usually prefer to type things out in full anyway. We can learn together!

S.

C_Girlie

Hope this helps, I came across theses abbreviations a few months ago

3T - TTTC - Trouble Trying To ...Conceive

2WW - Two Week Window (after ...ovulation)

A
AE – Alter(nate) Ego
AF – Aunt Flo (menstruation)
AI – Artificial Insemination
AMA – Advanced maternal age
AMNIO – Amniocentesis
AO – Anovulatory
AP – Adoption Process
AR – Assisted Reproduction
ART – Assisted Reproductive ...Technology
A/S SCAN – Anomaly scan, done ...at18-21 weeks to check for ...anomalies in baby
AUG ’14 – August 2014 board
AW- Attention Wanted/Whore

B
BBs – Breasts
BBT – Basal Body Temperature
BC – Birth Control
BCP – Birth Control Pills
BD – Big Deed (baby making sex), ...also Baby Dance
BETA – another term for HCG
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
BMB – Birth Month Board
BOTB – Baby On The Brain (The ...Nest message board)
Bump picture friday
BRU – Babies R Us Store
BSC – Bat Shit Crazy
BW or B/W – Blood Work

C
C&P – Copy and Paste
CB – Cycle Buddy
CBEFM – Clear Blue Easy Fertility ...Monitor
CD – Cycle day
CDs – Cloth Diapers
CF – Cervical fluid
CH – Crosshairs (on Fertility ...Friend)
CIO – Cry It Out
CL – Corpus Luteum
CM – Cervical Mucus
CNM – Certified Nurse Midwife
Colpo – Colposcopy
CP – Cervical position
CP– Clicky Poll
CP - Chemical Pregnancy
CPW– Clicky Poll Wednesday
C-SECTION – caesarean section
CVS – Chorionic Villae Sampling

D
D&C – Dilation and Curettage
DD – Dear/Darling Daughter or Designated Driver
DD – Dirty Delete
DC – Dear/Darling Child
D&E – Dilation & Evacuation
DH – Dear/Darling Husband
DI – Donor Insemination
DPO – Days past ovulation
DS – Dear/Darling Son
DX - Diagnosis

E
E2 – Estradiol
EBF- Exclusively Breastfed
EBM – Expressed Breast Milk
EDD – Estimated Due Date
EFF- Exclusively Formula Fed or Eco-Friendly Family (board)
ENDO – Endometriosis
EOD – Every other day
EP- Exclusively Pump
EPT – Early Pregnancy Test
ER/ ED – Emergency Room/ Emergency Department
ET – Embryo Transfer
ETA- Edited to add, or Edit to the ...Above
EWCM – Egg White Cervical Mucus

F
FBF – Fur Baby Friday (sharing ...your pet photos on Friday)
FC- Future Child(ren)
FET – Frozen Embryo Transfer
FF or FF’ing – Formula Feeding
FF – Fertility Friend (fertility ...charting website)
FFFC – Flame free Friday ...confessions
FFS – For F*cks Sake
FH – Fertile Ho (one who gets ...knocked up without trying)
FI – Fiance(e)
FM – Fertility Monitor
FWP – F*ck With Purpose (baby ...making sex)
FMU – First morning urine
FP – Follicular Phase
FRER – First Response Early ...Response
FSH – Follicle Stimulating Hormone
FTR – For the Record
FTTA – Fertile Thoughts To All
FX – Fingers crossed
F/U – Follow-up
FWIW- For What It’s Worth

G
GBCB/N/K – Goodbye Cruel Bump/Nest/Knot
GD – Gestational diabetes
GMA – Geriatric Maternal Age
GOTB – Get off the Board
GP – General Practitioner
GTKYFB- Get To Know Your Fellow ...Bumpie

H
H&H – Happy and Healthy
HCG – Human Chorionic ...Gonadotropin
HIO – Hump it out
HDBP – Hump day bump day
HOM – High Order Multiples
HPT – Home Pregnancy Test
HRT – Hormone Replacement ...Therapy
HSC – Hysteroscopy
HSG – Hysterosalpingogram
HTH- Hope That Helps

I
IB – Implantation Bleeding
IC – Incompetent Cervix, also CI – ...cervical insufficiency
IC (as in pg test) – ...immunochormatographic, cheap ...test in a small strip form. (eg ...Wondfos)
IBS – Irritable Bowel Syndrome
ICSI – Intracytoplasmic Sperm ...Injection
IDK – I don’t know
IF – Infertility
IHO- In Honor Of
IM – Intramuscular
IMO- In My Opinion
IMHO- In My Humble/Honest ...Opinion
IR- Insulin Resistant
IRL- In Real Life
ITA- I Totally Agree
IUI – Intra-uterine Insemination
IVF – In Vitro Fertilization
IYKWIM – If You Know What I Mean

K
KU- Knocked Up
KTFU – Knocked the F*ck Up
KWIM – Know What I Mean?

L
LAP – Laparoscopy
LGBT – Lesbian Gay Bisexual ...Transgender
LH – Luteinizing Hormone
LIP – Link in post
LMP – Last Menstrual Period
LO – Little one
LP – Luteal phase
LPD – Luteal Phase Defect

M
MC – Miscarriage
MF or MFI – Male Factor Infertility
MF – Mind Fetus (phantom pg ...symptoms)
MS – Morning Sickness
MTHFR – type of gene mutation
MUD- Made Up Drama

N
NAUG’14R – Not august 2014 ...board related
NAK – Nursing at the Keyboard
NBR – Not Baby/board Related
NFO – Not Finding Out (gender)
NFP – Natural Family Planning
NFT – No Further Text
NIP – Nursing In Public
NMS- Not My Style
NP – Nurse Practitioner
NTD – Neural Tube Defect
NT SCAN – Nuchal translucency ...scan – done at 12 weeks, helps ...determine possible defects
...(such as, but not limited to down ...syndrome)
N/V – Nausea/vomiting
NWT – New With Tag

O
O – Ovulation
OB – Obstetrician
OB/GYN – Obstetrician/Gynecologist
OC – Oral Contraceptives
OHSS – Ovarian Hyperstimulation ...Syndrome
OOT – Out Of Town
OP – Original Poster
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
PGAL – Pregnant after a loss
PI – Primary Infertility
PIAC – Pee In A cup
PID – Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
PIH – Pregnancy Induced ...Hypertension
PIO - Progesterone in Oil
PIP – Picture in post
PIT – Pitocin
PITA – Pain in the ass
PM- Private Message
PMS – Premenstrual Syndrome
PNP- Pack and Play
PNV – Prenatal vitamin
POAS – Pee On A Stick
POMF – Pee on My Fingers
POTW- Picture Of The Week
Pough – Pee+Cough
PP- PostPartum or Previous Poster
PPH – Pink Puffy Heart
PREEMIE – Premature baby
PROM – Premature Rupture of ...Membranes
PSA – Public Service ...Announcement
PTL – Preterm labor
PZ – PregnantZilla (self-centered ...pregnant woman)



Q
QFP – Quoted for Proof/Posterity
QFT – Quoted for Truth

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
SAIFW – Success After Infertility ...Welcome
SHG – Sonohysterogram
SI – Secondary Infertility
Sniss – Sneeze+piss
SO- Significant Other
S/O – Speaking Of
SonoHSG – Sonohysterogram
STD – Short Term Disability
STTN– Sleeping Through The Night
SUA – Single umbilical artery

T
T&Ps – Thoughts and prayers
TAB- Taking a break
TCOYF – Taking Charge of Your ...Fertility (book)
TI – Timed Intercourse
TIA – Thanks in Advance
TL – Tubal Ligation
TMI – Too Much Information
TP - Throat Punch or thoughts & ...prayers (in context)
TR – Tubal Reversal
TRH – Thyroid Releasing Hormone
TSH – Thyroid Stimulating Hormone
TTA – Trying to Avoid
TTC – Trying To Conceive
TTCAL– Trying to conceive after a ...loss

U
UC – Unassisted Childbirth
UO – Unpopular opinions
US or u/s – Ultrasound
UTI – Urinary Tract Infection

V
V – Vasectomy
VBAC – Vaginal birth after ...caesarian
VR – Vasectomy Reversal

W

X

Y
YWIA - You're welcome in advance

Z

heathereb23

Hi Amy, I am also recently married (December) and will be 36 in a few weeks. We started TTC right after the wedding, and this will be #1 for both of us. It can be very frustrating...hope you have better luck than we have so far!

HeathernSteven

Congrats and welcome!

amyjjohnson1

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome!  I appreciate the list of abbreviations, I will def have to come back and reference that!!!  A little bit of background on me~My husband and I have daughters from previous relationships, we were both very young when we each had our kids. So this is the first time for us together and the first time I'm actually planning pregnancy.  It's been almost 14 yrs since I had my youngest and longer than that for my husband.  So this is a new experience for us and we're really excited.  Thanks again ladies, I look forward to learning and supporting each other!

Mommalawyer

Welcome! Hope your stay here is short! Don't be afraid to ask questions, we all come from different experiences & might be going thru the same thing too. I'm going to be 38 next month, and am part of the 3t board & secondary infertility board.....

KirstenAlecia

C_Girlie said:

Hope this helps, I came across theses abbreviations a few months ago 3T - TTTC - Trouble Trying To ...Conceive 2WW - Two Week Window (after ...ovulation) A AE – Alter(nate) Ego AF – Aunt Flo (menstruation) AI – Artificial Insemination AMA – Advanced maternal age AMNIO – Amniocentesis AO – Anovulatory AP – Adoption Process AR – Assisted Reproduction ART – Assisted Reproductive ...Technology A/S SCAN – Anomaly scan, done ...at18-21 weeks to check for ...anomalies in baby AUG ’14 – August 2014 board AW- Attention Wanted/Whore B BBs – Breasts BBT – Basal Body Temperature BC – Birth Control BCP – Birth Control Pills BD – Big Deed (baby making sex), ...also Baby Dance BETA – another term for HCG 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 BMB – Birth Month Board BOTB – Baby On The Brain (The ...Nest message board) Bump picture friday BRU – Babies R Us Store BSC – Bat Shit Crazy BW or B/W – Blood Work C C&P – Copy and Paste CB – Cycle Buddy CBEFM – Clear Blue Easy Fertility ...Monitor CD – Cycle day CDs – Cloth Diapers CF – Cervical fluid CH – Crosshairs (on Fertility ...Friend) CIO – Cry It Out CL – Corpus Luteum CM – Cervical Mucus CNM – Certified Nurse Midwife Colpo – Colposcopy CP – Cervical position CP– Clicky Poll CP - Chemical Pregnancy CPW– Clicky Poll Wednesday C-SECTION – caesarean section CVS – Chorionic Villae Sampling D D&C – Dilation and Curettage DD – Dear/Darling Daughter or Designated Driver DD – Dirty Delete DC – Dear/Darling Child D&E – Dilation & Evacuation DH – Dear/Darling Husband DI – Donor Insemination DPO – Days past ovulation DS – Dear/Darling Son DX - Diagnosis E E2 – Estradiol EBF- Exclusively Breastfed EBM – Expressed Breast Milk EDD – Estimated Due Date EFF- Exclusively Formula Fed or Eco-Friendly Family (board) ENDO – Endometriosis EOD – Every other day EP- Exclusively Pump EPT – Early Pregnancy Test ER/ ED – Emergency Room/ Emergency Department ET – Embryo Transfer ETA- Edited to add, or Edit to the ...Above EWCM – Egg White Cervical Mucus F FBF – Fur Baby Friday (sharing ...your pet photos on Friday) FC- Future Child(ren) FET – Frozen Embryo Transfer FF or FF’ing – Formula Feeding FF – Fertility Friend (fertility ...charting website) FFFC – Flame free Friday ...confessions FFS – For F*cks Sake FH – Fertile Ho (one who gets ...knocked up without trying) FI – Fiance(e) FM – Fertility Monitor FWP – F*ck With Purpose (baby ...making sex) FMU – First morning urine FP – Follicular Phase FRER – First Response Early ...Response FSH – Follicle Stimulating Hormone FTR – For the Record FTTA – Fertile Thoughts To All FX – Fingers crossed F/U – Follow-up FWIW- For What It’s Worth G GBCB/N/K – Goodbye Cruel Bump/Nest/Knot GD – Gestational diabetes GMA – Geriatric Maternal Age GOTB – Get off the Board GP – General Practitioner GTKYFB- Get To Know Your Fellow ...Bumpie H H&H – Happy and Healthy HCG – Human Chorionic ...Gonadotropin HIO – Hump it out HDBP – Hump day bump day HOM – High Order Multiples HPT – Home Pregnancy Test HRT – Hormone Replacement ...Therapy HSC – Hysteroscopy HSG – Hysterosalpingogram HTH- Hope That Helps I IB – Implantation Bleeding IC – Incompetent Cervix, also CI – ...cervical insufficiency IC (as in pg test) – ...immunochormatographic, cheap ...test in a small strip form. (eg ...Wondfos) IBS – Irritable Bowel Syndrome ICSI – Intracytoplasmic Sperm ...Injection IDK – I don’t know IF – Infertility IHO- In Honor Of IM – Intramuscular IMO- In My Opinion IMHO- In My Humble/Honest ...Opinion IR- Insulin Resistant IRL- In Real Life ITA- I Totally Agree IUI – Intra-uterine Insemination IVF – In Vitro Fertilization IYKWIM – If You Know What I Mean K KU- Knocked Up KTFU – Knocked the F*ck Up KWIM – Know What I Mean? L LAP – Laparoscopy LGBT – Lesbian Gay Bisexual ...Transgender LH – Luteinizing Hormone LIP – Link in post LMP – Last Menstrual Period LO – Little one LP – Luteal phase LPD – Luteal Phase Defect M MC – Miscarriage MF or MFI – Male Factor Infertility MF – Mind Fetus (phantom pg ...symptoms) MS – Morning Sickness MTHFR – type of gene mutation MUD- Made Up Drama N NAUG’14R – Not august 2014 ...board related NAK – Nursing at the Keyboard NBR – Not Baby/board Related NFO – Not Finding Out (gender) NFP – Natural Family Planning NFT – No Further Text NIP – Nursing In Public NMS- Not My Style NP – Nurse Practitioner NTD – Neural Tube Defect NT SCAN – Nuchal translucency ...scan – done at 12 weeks, helps ...determine possible defects ...(such as, but not limited to down ...syndrome) N/V – Nausea/vomiting NWT – New With Tag O O – Ovulation OB – Obstetrician OB/GYN – Obstetrician/Gynecologist OC – Oral Contraceptives OHSS – Ovarian Hyperstimulation ...Syndrome OOT – Out Of Town OP – Original Poster 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 PGAL – Pregnant after a loss PI – Primary Infertility PIAC – Pee In A cup PID – Pelvic Inflammatory Disease PIH – Pregnancy Induced ...Hypertension PIO - Progesterone in Oil PIP – Picture in post PIT – Pitocin PITA – Pain in the ass PM- Private Message PMS – Premenstrual Syndrome PNP- Pack and Play PNV – Prenatal vitamin POAS – Pee On A Stick POMF – Pee on My Fingers POTW- Picture Of The Week Pough – Pee+Cough PP- PostPartum or Previous Poster PPH – Pink Puffy Heart PREEMIE – Premature baby PROM – Premature Rupture of ...Membranes PSA – Public Service ...Announcement PTL – Preterm labor PZ – PregnantZilla (self-centered ...pregnant woman) Q QFP – Quoted for Proof/Posterity QFT – Quoted for Truth 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 SAIFW – Success After Infertility ...Welcome SHG – Sonohysterogram SI – Secondary Infertility Sniss – Sneeze+piss SO- Significant Other S/O – Speaking Of SonoHSG – Sonohysterogram STD – Short Term Disability STTN– Sleeping Through The Night SUA – Single umbilical artery T T&Ps – Thoughts and prayers TAB- Taking a break TCOYF – Taking Charge of Your ...Fertility (book) TI – Timed Intercourse TIA – Thanks in Advance TL – Tubal Ligation TMI – Too Much Information TP - Throat Punch or thoughts & ...prayers (in context) TR – Tubal Reversal TRH – Thyroid Releasing Hormone TSH – Thyroid Stimulating Hormone TTA – Trying to Avoid TTC – Trying To Conceive TTCAL– Trying to conceive after a ...loss U UC – Unassisted Childbirth UO – Unpopular opinions US or u/s – Ultrasound UTI – Urinary Tract Infection V V – Vasectomy VBAC – Vaginal birth after ...caesarian VR – Vasectomy Reversal W X Y YWIA - You're welcome in advance Z

I still suck at the abbreviations and I lose where they are…..im so putting this on my desk top so I can refer back! lol

KirstenAlecia

whoa! that looks crazy.