Thursday, September 26, 2013

BDing w/ DH for LO who I will EBF... OMGWTFBBQ

Hubs and I have decided to wait a cycle to start trying (This decision based solely on the fact that we are going to San Francisco next week and we want me to be able to go out and drink.  Responsible parenting right there!), so I thought I would write something on the ridiculous abbreviations I keep coming across in books and online that have to do with fertility and conception.

My husband is a gamer - WOW and Starcraft mostly - and he got me into WOW.  One thing most people know about nerdy online gamers is that there's a whole other language being used:

"Can't cast" - "I can't cast a spell and am probably going to die,"
"Sheep him!" - "Turn that bad guy into a sheep, rendering him defenseless"
"Lok'Tar!" - Orc for "victory!"
"pwning n00bs" - Killing players who are low level
"qq more n00b" - (sarcasm) "Go ahead and cry about that some more"
"L2P" -  "Learn to Play" which I've been told a few times :(

...are some that come to mind.

One that I've never quite understood was OMGWTFBBQ - OMG and WTF are self explanatory, but BBQ?  Idk.

When I started reading about conception and fertility, I learned that this world, not unlike the World of Warcraft, has its own language too (from The Leaky Boob and The Impatient Woman's Guide):

AF - Aunt Flo (period)
AP - Attachment Parenting
APNO - all purpose nipple ointment
BBT - Basal Body Temp
BC - Birth Control
BD - Baby Dance (sex)
BF - Breastfeeding
BFP - Big Fat Positive
BFN - Big Fat Negative
BM - breastmilk
CIO - cry it out
CLW -child led weaning
CM - cervical mucus
DD - Dear Daughter
DH - Dear Husband
DOC - date of conception
DS - Dear Son
DTD - Do the deed
EBF - Exclusively Breastfeeding/breastfed
EBM - expressed breastmilk
EGCW - eggwhite cervical mucus (means you're fertile)
FTT - failure to thrive
FT - full term
FX - Fingers Crossed
HCP - health care provider
HPT - home pregnancy test
LC - Lactation Consultant
LO - little one/loved one
MC - miscarriage
MW - midwife
NIP - nursing in public
OB - obstetrician
POAS - pee on a stick
SAHM - Stay At Home Mom
SAHD - Stay At Home Dad
SAHP - Stay At Home Parent
SO - significant other
STTN - Sleep through the night
TTC - trying to conceive
US - ultrasound
2WW - wait time from ovulation to using a pregnancy test

... And that's just a small sample! OMGWTFBBQ!!

Take a look at any message board about fertility, childbirth or parenting and you'll see whole paragraphs that look like:

"DH and I have been TTC, just got EGCW and BBT rose, so BD tonite! FX during 2WW to POAS on HPT and get BFP!!"



Whatever happened to, "I'm ovulating, so tonight's the night to get pregnant!" ????????

Honestly, I would never refer to Hubs as DH (gag!) and if the term BD ever came to mind while we were TTC I'd probably laugh too hard to DTD!  And I don't know why it's so hard to type things like "pregnancy test" or instead of BFP, just saying "I'm knocked up!"

Keep it simple, folks!

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