Frequently Asked Questions

cmerin · 01-11-2005

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ACA - Anti-cardiolipin Antibodies

ACTH - Adrenal Corticotropic Hormone

AF - Aunt Flo (menstruation)

AFNW - Aunt Flo Not Wanted

AFSA - Aunt Flo Stay Away

AH, AZH - Assisted Hatching

AI - Artificial Insemination

AMA - Advanced maternal age

ANA - Anti-nuclear Antibodies

AO - Anovulatory

AP - Attachment parenting

AP - Adoption Process

APA - Anti-phospholipid Antibodies

APTT - Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time

ART - Assisted Reproductive Technology

ASA - Anti-sperm Antibody

ASRM - American Society of Reproductive Medicine

ATA - Anti-thyroid Antibody

AVA - Anti-ovarian Antibody

AW- Attention Wanted

B

BBs - Breasts

BBT - Basal Body Temperature

BC - Birth control

BCP - Birth Control Pills

BD - Baby dance/Big deed (sex)

BF - Boyfriend

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

BM - Bowel Movement or Breast Milk

BOTB - Babies On The Brain

BRU - Babies R Us Store

BTDT - Been There, Done That

BTW - By The Way

BW or B/W - Blood Work

C

CAH - Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

CASA - Computer-assisted Semen Analysis

CB - Cycle Buddy

CBEFM - Clear Blue Easy Fertility Monitor

CCCT - Clomiphene Citrate Challenge Test (Clomid Challenge)

CD - Cycle Day

CDs - Cloth Diapers

CF - Cervical Fluid

CIO - Cry It Out

CL - Corpus Luteum

CM - Cervical Mucus

CMV - Cytomegalovirus

CNM - Certified Nurse Midwife

Colpo - Colposcopy

CP - Cervical Position

CVS - Chorionic Villae Sampling

CYE - Check Your Email

D

D&C - Dilation & Curettage

D&E - Dilation & Evacuation

DC - Dear/Darling Child

DD - Dear Daughter

DE - Donor Eggs

DES - Diethylstilbestrol (a synthetic estrogen)

DF - Dear Fiancee/Friend

DH - Dear Husband

DI - Donor Insemination

DIPI - Direct Intra-peritoneal Insemination

DOST - Direct Oocyte-Sperm Transfer

DPO - Days Past Ovulation

DS - Dear Son

DS - Dear/Darling Son

DTD - Do The Deed

DW - Dear Wife

Dx - Diagnosis

E

E2 - Estradiol

EB, EMB - Endometrial Biopsy

EBF - Extended breastfeeding, exclusively breastfeeding

EBM - Expressed Breast Milk

EDD - Estimated Due Date, or Expected Date of Delivery

ENDO - Endometriosis

EP- Exclusively Pumping

EPT - Early Pregnancy Test

ER - Emergency Room

ET - Embryo Transfer

ETA - Embryo Toxicity Assay

ETA- Edited to add

ETF - Embryo Toxic Factor

EWCM - Egg White Cervical Mucus

F

F/U - Follow-up

FC - Future Child(ren)

FET - Frozen Embryo Transfer

FF - Formula Feeding

FIL - Father In-law

FM - Fertility Monitor

FMU - First Morning Urine

FP - Follicular Phase

FRE - First Response Early (a popular HPT)

FRER - First Response Early Response

FSH - Follicle Stimulating Hormone

FTM - First Time Mom

FTTA - Fertile Thoughts To All

FWIW- For What It’s Worth

G

GIFT - Gamete Intra-fallopian Transfer

GL - Good Luck

GMA - Geriatric Maternal Age

GnRH - Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone

GP - General Practitioner

H

H&H - Happy and Healthy

HCG - Human Chorionic Gonadotropin

HEPA - Hamster Egg Penetration Assay

HMG - Human Menopausal Gonadotropin

HOM - High Order Multiples

HPT - Home Pregnancy Test

HRT - Hormone Replacement Therapy

HSC - Hysteroscopy

HSG - Hysterosalpingogram

HTH- Hope That/This Helps

HX - History

I

IB - Implantation Bleeding

IBS - Irritable Bowel Syndrome

IBT - Immunobead Binding Test

IC - Incompetent Cervix

ICI - Intra-cervical Insemination

ICSI - Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection

IDK - I Don't Know

IF - Infertility

IHO - In Honor Of

IL - In-law

IM - Intramuscular

IMHO - In My Humble Opinion

IMO - In My Opinion

IOR - Immature Oocyte Retrieval

IR - Insulin Resistant

IRL - In Real Life

ITA - I Totally Agree

ITI - Intra-tubal Insemination

IUGR - Intra-uterine Growth Retardation

IUI - Intra-uterine Insemination

IVF - In Vitro Fertilization

IVIg - Intravenous Immunoglobulin

J

JMHO - Just My Honest Opinion

K

KWIM - Know What I Mean

L

L&D - Labor and delivery

LAD - Leukocyte Antibody Detection Assay

LAP - Laparoscopy

LGBT - Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender

LH - Luteinizing Hormone

LIP - Link in post

LIT - Leukocyte Immunization Therapy

LMAO - Laughing My A* Off

LMBO - Laughing My Butt Off

LMP - Last Menstrual Period

LO - Little one

LOL - Laughing Out Loud

LP - Luteal phase

LPD - Luteal Phase Defect

LUF - Luteinized Unruptured Follicle

M

MC or M/C - Miscarriage

MESA - Microsurgical Epididymal Sperm Aspiration

MF - Male Factor Infertility

MIL - Mother In-law

MS - Morning Sickness

N

NAK - Nursing At the Keyboard

NBR - Not Baby Related

NEST - Non-surgical Embryonic Selective Thinning

NFO - Not Finding Out (gender)

NFP - Natural Family Planning

NIP - Nursing In Public

NK - Natural Killer Cells (CD56+)

NMS- Not My Style

NORIF - Non-stimulated Oocyte Retrieval In (office) Fertilization

NP - Nurse Practitioner

NTD - Neural Tube Defect

NWT - New With Tag

O

O - Ovulation

OB/GYN - Obstetrician/Gynecologist

OC - Oral Contraceptives

O'd - Ovulated

OHSS - Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome

OP - Original Poster

OPK - Ovulation Predictor Kit

OPT - Ovulation Predictor Test

OTC - Over-the-counter

OV - Ovulation

OWT - Old Wives Tale

P

P&PTs - Prayers & Positive Thoughts

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

PESA - Percutaneous Epididymal Sperm Aspiration

PG - Pregnancy or Pregnant

PI - Primary Infertility

PIAC - Pee In A cup

PID - Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

PIH - Pregnancy Induced Hypertension

PIT - Pitocin

PLI - Paternal Leukocyte Immunization

PM - Private Message

PMS - Premenstrual Syndrome

PNP - Pack and Play

PNV - Prenatal vitamin

POAS - Pee On A Stick

POF - Premature Ovarian Failure

POMF - Pee on My Fingers

POTW- Picture Of The Week

PP - PostPartum or Previous Poster

PROM - Premature Rupture of Membranes

PTL - Preterm labor

PZ - PregnantZilla (self-centered pregnant woman)

R

RE - Reproductive Endocrinologist

R-hFSH - Recombinant Human Follicle Stimulating Hormone

RI - Reproductive Immunologist

RIP - Reproductive Immunophynotype

ROFL - Rolling on floor laughing

ROS - Reactive Oxygen Species

RPL - Recurrent Pregnancy Loss

RSA - Recurrent Spontaneous Abortion

Rx - Prescription

S

S/A - Sperm/semen analysis

S/O - Speaking Of

SA - Semen Analysis

SAHD - Stay At Home Dad

SAHM - Stay At Home Mom

SAHW - Stay At Home Wife

SART - Society of Assisted Reproductive Technology

SCORIF - Stimulated Cycle Oocyte Retrieval In (office) Fertilization

SHG - Sonohysterogram

SI - Secondary Infertility

SIL - Sister in-law

SLE - Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

SO- Significant Other

SonoHSG - Sonohysterogram

SPA - Sperm Penetration Assay

STBX - Soon To Be eX

STD - Sexually Transmitted Disease

STD - Short Term Disability

STTN - Sleeping Through The Night

SUZI - Sub-zonal Insertion

T

TeBG - Testosterone-estradiol-binding Globulin

TESA - Testicular Sperm Aspiration

TESE - Testicular Sperm Extraction

TET - Tubal Embryo Transfer

TI - Timed Intercourse

TIA - Thanks in advance

TL - Tubal Ligation

TMI - Too Much Information

TOH - Typing One Handed

TORCH - Toxoplasmosis, Other, Rubella, Cytomegalovirus and Herpes test

TR - Tubal Reversal

TRH - Thyroid Releasing Hormone

TSH - Thyroid Stimulating Hormone

TTA - Trying To Avoid

TTC - Trying To Conceive

TTYL - Talk To You Later

TUFT - Trans-uterine Fallopian Transfer

Tx - Treatment

U

UC - Unassisted Childbirth

US or u/s - Ultrasound

UTI - Urinary Tract Infection

V

V - Vasectomy

VBAC - Vaginal birth after cesarean section

VR - Vasectomy Reversal

W

WAHM/D - Work at home mom/dad

WBC - White Blood Cells

WDYT- What Do You Think

WOHM/D - Work Outside Home Mom/Dad

WTH - What The Heck

WWYD- What Would You Do

X

XP- Cross Post (Posted on multiple boards)

Y

YGM- You've Got Mail

YGPM- You've Got a Private Message

YI - Yeast infection

YKWIM- You Know What I Mean

Z

ZIFT - Zygote Intra-fallopian Transfer

cmerin · 01-11-2005

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