Understanding Infertility

AF – “Aunt Flow”, your period
ART – Assisted Reproductive Technology

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BBT - Body Basal Temperature
BCP – Birth Control Pills
BD – “Baby Dance”, intercourse
Beta – a blood test to confirm pregnancy
BFN – “Big Fat Negative”, negative pregnancy test
BFP – “Big Fat Positive”, positive pregnancy test

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CD – Cycle Day of your period
CM – cervical mucus
CP – chemical pregnancy

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D&C – Dilation and Curettage, a procedure to clear a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy
DE – Donor eggs
DOR – Diminished Ovarian Reserve
DPO – Days past ovlation
_DP3DT – “Days past 3 day transfer”
_DP5DT – “Days past 5 day transfer”

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E2 – Estradiol, natural estrogen
ER – Egg retrieval
ET – Embryo transfer

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FET – Frozen Embryo Transfer
FSH – Follicle-stimulating Hormone

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HCG – Human chorionic gonadotropin, the “pregnancy hormone”
HPT – Home pregnancy test
HSG – Hysterosalpingogram

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ICSI – Intracytoplasmic sperm injection
IF – Infertility
IUI – Intrauterine insemination
IVF – In vitro fertilization
IVF/ET – In vitro fertilization and embryo transfer

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LH – Luteinizing hormone

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MC or m/c – Miscarriage
MFI – Male factor Infertility

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NK Cells – Natural Killer Cells

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OB/GYN – Obstetrician-gynecologist or obstetrics and gynecology

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P4 – Progesterone
PCOS – Polycystic ovary syndrome
PG – Pregnant
PGD – Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
PGS – Preimplantation genetic screening
PIO – Progesterone in oil
POAS – “Pee on a stick”, take a pregnancy test
POF – Premature ovarian failure

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RE – Reproductive endocrinologist
RI – Reproductive immunologist
RPL – Recurrent pregnancy loss

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SA – Semen Analysis
SPA – Sperm penetration assay
SubQ – Subcutaneous injection

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TSH – Thyroid stimulating hormone
TTC – “Trying to conceive”

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UR – Urologist
US – Ultrasound