TTC Dictionary

The Ultimate Trying to Conceive Acronym Guide

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.

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

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)