Some acronyms or jargon that you may come across when researching assisted reproduction include:
- TTC – trying to conceive
- EPU – egg pick up
- DI – Donor Insemination
- Stim Cycle – Stimulated Cycle of IVF, drugs are used to stimulate your ovaries
- FET- Frozen Embryo Transfer
- 2ww – 2 week wait, the time from ovulation to finding out if you are pregnant
- BFN – Big Fat Nothing (ie not pregnant)
- BFP- Big Fat Positive (ie pregnant)
- DPO – days past ovulation
- ET- Embryo transfer
- FS- Fertility specialist
- FSH – Folicle stimulating hormone
- AF – Aunty Flo – periods
- HPT – Home pregnancy test
- POAS – pee on a stick (do a home pregnancy test)
- ICSI – Intra Cytoplasmic sperm injection (like IVF but they take one sperm and inject it into the egg)
- IVF – In Vitro Fertilisation
- IUI – Interuterine insemination
- OHSS – Ovarian Hyper stimulation syndrome
- OI – Ovulation Induction
- PCOS – Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome
- PG – pregnant
- TMI – to much information
- U/S – ultrasound
- HCG – Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) the hormone produced in pregnancy that HTP’s test for. Also often given as an injection (pregnyl) for luteral phase support (ie after iui or embryo transfer)
- KD – Known Donor
- TB – Turkey Baster