Are you TTC (trying to conceive) with your DH (dear husband), but your DD (dear daughter) keeps interrupting your BD (baby dance, i.e., sex)? Welcome to the world of online reproductive acronyms.
During the nerve-racking, heartbreaking process of waiting for positive results from my HPTs (home pregnancy tests), I found some of my best buddies online. While it’s not cool to natter about your cycle to passersby in real life (IRL), you can find loads of women online who are also up at 3 a.m. wondering if their EWCM (egg white cervical mucus) means it’s time to do the BD, or if their CD (cycle day) is off, regardless of what it says in TCOYF (Taking Charge of Your Fertility).
No, my husband would not like me to refer to sex as the “baby dance” or know every phantom symptom I experience in the DPO (days past ovulation), but when I’m chatting with my comrades in stirrups and friends in fertility, there is no such thing as TMI (too much information).
The greatest specter dreaded by the online TTC community is the arrival of AF (Aunt Flo)—the sign of a failed cycle. Your TTC friend may report a BFN (big fat negative) on an HPT, but the writing isn’t on the wall until dumb old AF shows up.
When she rears her ugly head, I’m off to the computer for sympathetic responses—::hugs::—and encouragement.
There are some great guides to all known TTC acronyms posted at Pregnancy.org and PregnancyandBaby.com, so you can get online and send FTTA (fertile thoughts to all) or find a CB (cycle buddy).
I’ve found my best TTC friends by blogging about my own experiences trying to get PG (pregnant). They started washing up on the shores of my personal blog, and I started reading theirs. And before long, we had a circle of people battling various kinds of IF (infertility), weathering miscarriages, and coming up with solutions together—from in vitro fertilization (IVF) to adoption.
Next page: The three big PG/IF blogs I read
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Haha. Love the acronym use;>
I love when women share their experiences with such personal parts of reproductive life. It helps so many other women going through their own tough, often unfairly tragic times.
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