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Board Lingo; confused by an abbreviation?
Topic Started: Jan 19 2011, 09:07 PM (189 Views)
buckeye
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copied from the nestie board

2WW - Two-week wait until time to take pregnancy test- approx 14 days after Ovulation-
AF - Aunt Flo- your period
AI - Artificial Insemination
AMA - Advanced maternal age
AO - Annovulatory
AP- Adoption Process
AR - Assisted Reproduction
ART - Assisted Reproductive Technology
AW - Attention Whore
AW = "attention whore"
Babydust - Good Luck getting pregnant
BBs - Breasts
BBT - Basal Body Temperature
BC - Birth Control
BC, BCP = birth control, birth control pills
BCP - Birth Control Pills
BD - Baby dance, baby making sex - not the "cool" thing to say. FLB is better!
BF = boyfriend or best friend
BF or BF'ing - Breastfeeding
BFN or BF0 - Big Fat Negative (test result)
BFP - Big Fat Positive (home preg test result)
BIL - Brother-in-Law
BIO - your community bio
BM - Bowel Movement on the BOTB board probably not Bride's Maid, sometimes Breast Milk
BM = bridesmaid, best man
BOTB - Baby On The Brain nest message board
BP = Bridal Party
BRU - Babies R Us Store
BTDT - Been There Done That
BTW - By The Way
BTW = by the way
BW or B/W - Blood Work
C&P - Cut & Paste
C&P = Cut and Paste
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-- medical procedure where a lighted scope is used to look at cervix, may be with biopsy.
CP - Cervical position
CVS - Chorionic Villae Sampling
CW - co worker
D&C - Dilation & Curretage-- medical procedure after miscarriage-- (abortion)
D&E- Dilation & Evacuation medical procedure after miscarriage
DC - Dear/Darling Child
DD - Dear/Darling Daughter
DD- Designated Driver
DD- Dirty Delete/r-- refers to someone who deletes their OP after not liking other's responses
DF = dear fiancé, darling fiancé
DFZ = Drama Free Zone
DH - Dear/Darling Husband
DH = dear husband, darling husband
DI - Donor Insemination
DIY - Do It Yourself
DIY = Do It Yourself
DPO - Days past ovulation
DS - Dear/Darling Son
DW - Dear/Darling Wife
E2 - Estradiol
EBM - Expressed Breast Milk
EDD - Estimated Due Date
ENDO - Endometriosis
E-party = engagement party
EPT - Early Pregnancy Test
ER - Emergency Room
E-ring = engagement ring
ET - Embryo Transfer
ETA - Edited To Add
EWCM - Eggwhite cervical mucus -- the most fertile type of cm
FBIL = future brother in law
FET - Frozen Embryo Transfer
FF or FF'ing - Formula Feeding
FFIL = future father in law
FG = flower girl
FI - fiance/fiancee
FI = fiancé/fiancée
FIL - Father-in-Law
FLB- F*ck Like Bunnies
FLB- F^ck Like Bunnies
FM - Fertility Monitor
FMIL = future mother in law
FMU - First morning urine
FP - Follicular Phase
FRER - First Response Early Response
FSH - Follicel Stimulating Hormone
FSIL = future sister in law
FTTA - Fertile Thoughts To All
FUBAR- F#cked Up Beyond All Recognition
FWP- F* With Purpose
FYI = For Your Information
GBCK = Good Bye Cruel Knot
GBCN - Good Bye Cruel Nest
GF - Girlfriend
GKY = Getting to Know You
GL - Good Luck
GM = groomsmen
GMA - Geriatric maternal age
GP - General Practitioner
GTG - Get together (local members meet)
GTG = Get together (Local Knotties meeting up)
H&H - Happy and Healthy
HCG - Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (PG hormone)
HM = honeymoon
HOM- High Order Multiples
HPT - Home Pregnancy Test
HRT - Hormone Replacement Therapy
HSC - Hysteroscopy
HSG - Hysterosalpingogram
HTH - Hope that (this) helps
HTH = happy to help or hope this helps
IB- Implantation Bleeding
IBS - Irritable Bride/Bowel Syndrome
IC- Incompentent Cervix
ICSI - Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection
IF - Infertility
IHO = in honor of
ILs = In-laws
IM - Intramuscular
IMDSPFO = It's My Day So Please %@*% Off (native to P&E)
IMHO - In My Humble/Honest Opinion
IMHO = in my honest opinion, in my humble opinion
IMNSHO - In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMNSHO = In my not so humble opinion
IODSPFO = It's Our Day So Please &@#& Off (native to P&E)
IR- Insulin Resistant
IRL - In Real Life
ISO = in search of
IUI - Intra-uterine Insemination
IVF - In Vitro Fertilization
IYKWIM - If You Know What I Mean
j/k = joking, just kidding
JK - Just Kidding
JMA/JMO - Just My Advice/Opinion
JMO = Just my opinion
JP = Justice of the Peace
KWIM - Know What I Mean
LAP - Laparoscopy
LH - luteinizing hormone
LMAO - Laughing My Ass Off
LMAO = laughing my ass off
LMP - Last Menstrual Period
LOL - Laugh Out Loud
LOL = laugh out loud
LP - Luteal phase
LP - Luteal Phase, days between OV & AF
LPD - Luteal Phase Defect
LTBM = living together before marriage
MC - Miscarriage
MF- Male Factor Infertility ML - Marriage Life nest board
MIL = mother-in-law
MILF- Mom I'd Like to F*
MOB = mother of the bride
MOG = mother of the groom
MOH = maid/matron of honor
MS - Morning Sickness
MS = Martha Stewart
MUD = made up drama
MUD- Made Up Drama
NAK - Nursing at the Keyboard
NBR - Not Baby Related
NFO - Not Finding Out (gender)
NFP - Natural Family Planning
NFT - No Further Text
NFT = no further text
NIP - Nursing In Public
NMS - not my style
NMS = not my style
NP - No Problem
NP - Nurse Practitioner
NTD- Neural Tube Defect - birth defect that may be prevented by folic acid
NWMT = Not worth my time
NWR = not wedding related
NWT- New With Tag
O - Ovulation- or on S&R Orgasm
OB - Obstetrician
OB/GYN - Obstetrician/Gynecologist
OC - Oral Contraceptives
OHSS - Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome
OMB - Oh My Bob
OMG - Oh My Gosh
OP - Original Post
OPK - Ovulation Predictor Kit
OPT - Ovulation Predictor Test
OT - Off Topic
OTC - Over-the-counter
OV - Ovulation
OWT - Old Wives Tale
P&E = Planning & Etiquette Board
P4 - Progesterone
PA - Physician's Assistant
PABS - Passive Aggressive Bull Shit
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, pregnant much better than prego and preggers
PI - Primary infertility
PIAC- Pee In A cup
PIB - Picture in Bio
PID - Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
PIH- Pregnancy Induced Hypertension (high blood pressure)
PIT - Picture in Post
PIT - Pitocin (induces labor)
PMS - Premenstrual Syndrome
PNV - Prenatal vitamin
POAS - Pee On A Stick
POMF- Pee on My Fingers
Pough- Pee+Cough
PP - Previous post/people
Prego- a spaghetti sauce- not a good abreviation for pregnant!
PROM - Premature Rupture of Membranes
PSA - Public Service Announcement
PSA = Public Service Announcement
PTL - Preterm labor
PWI- Posting While Intoxicated
PZ- PregnantZilla- self centered pregnant girl, think bridezilla
QOTD - Question of the Day
RB = ring bearer
RD = rehearsal dinner
RE - Reproductive Endocrinologist (Infertility Dr.)
ROTFLMAO - Roll on the floor LMAO
ROTFLMAO = rolling on the floor laughing my ass off
ROTFLOL = rolling on the floor, laughing out loud
RP - repost
RP = repost
RPL - Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
RSA - Recurrent Spontaneous Abortion
S&R- Sex and Romance-- nest message board
S/A - Sperm/semen analysis
S/O - Spin Off
SAHD - Stay At Home Dad
SAHM - Stay At Home Mom
SAHM = stay-at-home mom
SAHW - stay-at-home wife
SAHW = stay-at-home wife
SBD = South Beach Diet
SHG - Sonohysterogram
SI - Secondary Infertility
SIL - Sister-in-Law
Sniss- Sneeze+pee
SO - Significant Other
SonoHSG - Sonohysterogram
STD - Short Term Disability. On Sex & Reomance it could be Sexually Transmitted Disease
STD = Save the date
STDs = Save The Date cards
STFU - "Shut the F Up"
TCOYF - Taking Charge of Your Fertility (book)
TIA - Thanks in advance
TIA = thanks in advance
TIP - Trouble in Paradise nest board
TL - Tubal Ligation
TMI - To Much Information
TMI = too much information
TMM - Total Money Makerover (book) by Dave Ramsey
TR - Tubal Reversal
TRH - Thyroid Releasing Hormone
TROLL - Someone that posts to cause trouble/drama
Troll = Someone posting a fake question or a nasty reply to get a reaction
TSH - Thyroid Stimulating Hormone
TTA - Trying to Avoid
TTC - Trying to conceive
TTYL - Talk To Ya Later
TY - thank you
TY = thank you
UC - Unassisted Childbirth
US or u/s - Ultrasound
UTI - Urinary Tract Infection
V - Vasectomy
VBAC - Vaginal birth after caesarian
VR - Vasectomy Reversal
WAHM/D - Work at home mom/dad
WB = wedding band
WBC - White Blood Cells
WDYT - What Do You Think
WH - Wonderful Husband
WH = wonderful husband
WNL - Within Normal Limits
WOAC=Wheel Of Ass Cheese
WOHM/D - Work outside home mom/dad
WP = wedding party
WR = wedding related
WSI = Warning! Sarcasm included
WTEWE - What to Expect When You're Expecting (book)
WTG - Way To Go
WW = Weight Watchers
WWYD - What Would You Do
XP = Cross posted (posted to more than one board)
YI - Yeast infection
Edited by buckeye, Jan 20 2011, 09:30 AM.
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