This helped me when I was studying midwifery, as well as keep up with my pregnant, and hoping to be pregnant, friends. Feel free to drop us an email if you have any we’re missing – info@lilmumma.com.au
2WW/TWW – Two Week Wait
AI – Artificial Insemination
AO – Anovulatory
BD/DTD – Baby Dance, Doing The Deed – You know… Getting Jiggy .. ok ok, Sex.. you’re having sex!
BBT – Basal Body Temperature
BCP – Birth Control Pill
BF – Breast Feeding
BP – Blood Pressure
BW – Blood Work
CM – Cervical Mucus
CY# – Number of cycles of IVF
DE – Donor Eggs
DPO – Days Past Ovulation
DPR – Days Past Retrieval
DPT – Days Past Transfer
EDD – Estimated Due Date
Endo – Endometriosis
FHR – Fetal Heart Rate
FM – Fetal Monitor
FSH – Follicle Stimulating Hormone
GDM – Gestational diabetes
GS – Gestational Surrogate
HCG – Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin
HOM – High Order Multiples, a pregnancy with three or more babies
HPT – Home Pregnancy Test
IF – Infertility
IM – Intra Muscular Injection
IR – Insulin Resistance
IVF – InVitro Fertilisation
IVF-DE – IVF with Donor Eggs
IUI – IntraUterine Insemination
LAP – Laparoscopic
LH – Luteinising Hormone
LMP – Last Menstrual Period
LP – Luteal Phase
LSC – Low Sperm Count
MC – Miscarriage
MF – Male Fertility
MFI – Male Factor Infertility
MS – Morning Sickness
MW – Midwife
OHSS – Ovarian HyperStimulation Syndrome
OPK – Ovulation Prediction Test
OV – Ovulation
PCOS – Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome
PG – Pregnant
PI – Primary Infertility
PID – Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
PND – Post Natal Depression
PNV – Post Natal Vitamin
POAS – Pee On A Stick
PP – Post Partum
PTSD – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
RB – Rainbow baby – a baby born after losing a baby due to miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death or infant loss
SA – Semen Analysis
SAHP – Stay At Home Parent
SB – Still Born
SC – Step Child
SI – Secondary Infertility
SPC – Sperm Count
SO – Significant Other
TL – Tubal Ligation
TTC – Trying To Conceive
U/S – Ultrasound
VR – Vasectomy Reversal
WAHP – Working At Home Parent
