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Acronyms You Refuse to Use Because They Are Weird and You Would Not Normally Say Them Out Loud
duh
Anyway, here is my list and explanations if I feel they are warranted. Feel free to post your own list. I am amusing myself during lunch.
AF - do you guys really say "Aunt Flow" out loud? Who came up with this expression? Did someone have a particularly nasty aunt named Florence and one day they decided, "You know what? I'll teach her. To thousands of women, her name will be synonymous with menstruation. HA HA HA ha HA haH hahahahahaha" while also curling up into a ball and rocking in the corner of a room somewhere?
BD - Bed dancing or baby dancing. Either way it's silly. I don't do anything that even remotely resembles dancing during sex. Maybe it's just me. Baby dancing reminds me of those creepy videos from a few years back.
DTD - Same number of letters as sex, so what are we saving here, really? Also, it sounds like June Cleaver is trying to talk about sex but afraid to actually say the word.
EWCM - Never ever ever would I say this out loud. Nor would I ever talk to someone about the state of the fluids in that area of my body. It's just not right.
DH/DS/D? - I never call my husband darling or dear, even though he is both of those things. Same thing for my son. I literally read "Darling Husband" every time I see "DH" in a post. DF and DB always throw me off track because I have to stop and think about it, "Wait, is she saying Darling Friend...what starts with F that applies here? F-ff-f-f--f-f-fffffff...oh fiance!" Yeah, it's like that.
That's my list for now. I know there are more, but I can't think of them right now.
This is a fun post I have nothing to contribute, just wanted to say that "my husband Zach" and I both say "Baby dance" to each other. We think that one is really cute... When I'm waiting to ovulate, he'll snuggle up to my neck sometimes and ask if it's time to baby dance yet
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With us on earth for five short days, with us in our hearts forever.
(Thank you Natasha for this beautiful graphic of Andrew, and to the ladies of the Nov 10 PR who help me in carrying on his memory.)
Jan. 2009: Came off years of BCP and started TTC
March 2010: BFP -- finally!
Oct. 22, 2010: Drew is born, but has to stay in the NICU because of cord complications resulting in oxygen deprivation and brain problems =(
Oct. 27, 2010: I held him in my arms while Daddy, Grandma, Great-Uncle and I sang him to sleep =( Hardest thing I've ever done...
June 14, 2011: Drew's baby brother or sister waved hi to us with a BFP!
June 25, 2011: Natural miscarriage... Can we please catch a break here?
Nov. 2011: 100mg Clomid followed by 2mg Estrogen, Ovidrel trigger, and 200mg progesterone suppositories 2x/day 14 days. BFN.
Dec. 2011: 2nd medicated cycle. BFN.
Jan. 2012: Took a month off to breathe...
Feb. 2012: Same regimen of Clomid and other meds, add IUI. 2 eggs and 8.5 million swimmers. BFN.
March 2012: 75 IU Follistim CD 3-11, follie scan CD 8 showed 6 follies likely to mature. Triggered, IUI on CD 14, 4 million swimmers. BFN.
April 2012: 75 IU Follistim CD 3-10. Scan showed 2 mature follies, 2 almost certain to mature, and two not likely but possible. (All 6 evenly and perfectly spaced out between the left and the right.) Triggered, IUI CD 13 with 5 million swimmers. BFN.
May 2012: 75 IU Follistim starting CD 3. Waiting to O. Timed intercourse. Likely 5 follies to mature.
Actually, I do have a friend I talk about my cm to. We're very open with each other. The only thing that we really hold back are the details of sex with our husbands.
DTD -- my 12 year old cousin refers to going poop as "doing the deed" ("Ugh! It stinks in the bathroom! Did somebody do the deed?!!") so this one definitely throws me off a bit
Also on other boards here on JM when ladies refer to either "breast milk" or a "birth mother" as BM it just kills me. I used to work in healthcare and BM stands for one thing...BOWEL MOVEMENT!
I did used to discuss my CM in graphic detail with a friend who was also TTC for a long time (she is now pregnant so those discussions have ceased).
this totally cracked me up.
i just say hubby lol
i do use AF but only because i am lazy and it is quicker to type lol
and ewcm when talking to my ttc girlfriend.
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Pregnancy Loss April 2009, September 2010 CP 10/2008, 1/3/11 {missing my babies every single day}Mommy to 4 Children - 3 boys ages 21, 20 and 17 & baby Scarlett
After 2.5 years TTC with 4 losses our Family was given the gift of Miss Scarlett.
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I feel the same about BM -- bowel movement! We talk about BM a lot in my anatomy class, where it stands for "Basement membrane," which has to do with cells and crap.
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With us on earth for five short days, with us in our hearts forever.
(Thank you Natasha for this beautiful graphic of Andrew, and to the ladies of the Nov 10 PR who help me in carrying on his memory.)
Jan. 2009: Came off years of BCP and started TTC
March 2010: BFP -- finally!
Oct. 22, 2010: Drew is born, but has to stay in the NICU because of cord complications resulting in oxygen deprivation and brain problems =(
Oct. 27, 2010: I held him in my arms while Daddy, Grandma, Great-Uncle and I sang him to sleep =( Hardest thing I've ever done...
June 14, 2011: Drew's baby brother or sister waved hi to us with a BFP!
June 25, 2011: Natural miscarriage... Can we please catch a break here?
Nov. 2011: 100mg Clomid followed by 2mg Estrogen, Ovidrel trigger, and 200mg progesterone suppositories 2x/day 14 days. BFN.
Dec. 2011: 2nd medicated cycle. BFN.
Jan. 2012: Took a month off to breathe...
Feb. 2012: Same regimen of Clomid and other meds, add IUI. 2 eggs and 8.5 million swimmers. BFN.
March 2012: 75 IU Follistim CD 3-11, follie scan CD 8 showed 6 follies likely to mature. Triggered, IUI on CD 14, 4 million swimmers. BFN.
April 2012: 75 IU Follistim CD 3-10. Scan showed 2 mature follies, 2 almost certain to mature, and two not likely but possible. (All 6 evenly and perfectly spaced out between the left and the right.) Triggered, IUI CD 13 with 5 million swimmers. BFN.
May 2012: 75 IU Follistim starting CD 3. Waiting to O. Timed intercourse. Likely 5 follies to mature.
This is hilarious! Thanks for bringing this back up! I can definitely agree that BM should never be used in polite conversation.
I do use DH myself because it's shorter, but I never say it out loud.
I have had the pleasure of discussing CM with a girl friend of mine...we're both TTC so....lol. Other than that, um, nope! "AF" is preferable to "menstruation", but heck, just say period. Then everyone will know what you're talking about. My DH is funny, he'll even get AF wrong when he says it and uses a different female name...I guess Aunt "anything" stands for your period now?? lol.
Lol I actually have talked about EWCM with my doctor and with another person who is TTC. AF... well most of the time DH says "do you have your friend" or "is it that time of the month". I don't really call it Aunt Flow but say it's my period. DH is shorter than husband on here but I don't call him that. Now I do say "do the deed"
And btw Courtney I laughed just as hard re-reading this as I did the first time I read it
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