Making Friends Online With Women Who Are Trying to Get Pregnant

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). Read More