Pregnancy can be hard enough without feeling like you need to learn a new language to understand all of the pregnancy acronyms being tossed about. Here’s a little cheat sheet to help you out!
2WW 2 Week Wait (before taking a pregnancy test)
AF Aunt Flo (menstruation/period)
AH Assisted Hatching
AMA Advanced Maternal Age or Against Medical Advice
BBT Basal Body Temperature
BC Birth Control Pills
BD Baby Dance (sex)
BF Breastfeed or Boyfriend
BFN Big Fat Negative (pregnancy test)
BFP Big Fat Positive (pregnancy test)
BLW Baby Led Weaning
BM Breastmilk or Bowel Movement
B/W Bloodwork
CB Cycle Buddy
CD Cycle Day
CF Cervical Fluid
CM Cervical Mucus
CP Cervical Position
C/S Cesarean Section (C-Section)
DD/DS Dear Daughter/Dear Son
DPO Days Past Ovulation
DPR Days Past Retrieval
DPT Days Past Transfer
DP3DT Days Past 3 Day Transfer
DP5DT Days Past 5 Day Transfer
EBM Expressed Breast Milk
ED Egg Donor
EDD Estimated Due Date
EWCM Egg White Cervical Mucus
FBG Fasting Blood Glucose
FM Fertility Mucus or Fertility Monitor
FF Formula Feeding or Fertility Friend
FP Follicular Phase
GA Gestational Age
GD Gestational Diabetes
GTT Glucose Tolerance Test
HCG Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (pregnancy hormone)
HPT Home Pregnancy Test
IC Incompetent Cervix
ICSI Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection
IUGR Intrauterine Growth Restriction
IUI Intrauterine Insertion
IVF In Vitro Fertilization
L&D Labor & Delivery
LD&R Labor, Delivery, and Recovery
LGA Large for Gestational Age
LMP Last Menstrual Period (first day of)
LP Luteal Phase
LPD Luteal Phase Defect
M/C Miscarriage
MM Mother’s Milk
MS Morning Sickness or Multiple Sclerosis
O Ovulation
O’d Ovulated
OCP Oral Contraceptive Pill
OGTT Oral Glucose Tolerance Test
PG Pregnant or Pregnancy
POAS Pee on a Stick (pregnancy test)
PPD Postpartum Depression
RE Reproductive Endocrinologist
SD Sperm Donor
SGA Small for Gestational Age
SO Significant Other
TCOYF Taking Charge of Your Fertility book
TTC Trying to Conceive
US Ultrasound
VBAC Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Section
