Same-Sex Households
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
What do all the acronyms stand for? Is there a legend somewhere?
TTC - Trying TO Conceive
But all the others...
Re: Because I'm a Newbie...
If you scroll down the left-hand side of this page, under "my boards" click on "Bump Board Glossary" that has alllllllll the TTC acronyms ever thought of by a human being listed, haha. We don't use a lot of them on the regular here, but these are real common in our chats:
TWW - 2 week wait (before you test to see if you're preggo)
RE - reproductive endocrinologist
AF - Aunt Flo aka period
IUI - intrauterine insemination (they way many of us are TTC)
BOTB - babies on the brain
BRU - Babies R Us store
BBT - basal body temp (some people use temperature as an ovulation tracking tool)
CD# - cycle day 1, 2, 3, etc
AI - artificial insemination
Some non-TTC ones that we use here are:
HTH - hope that helps
PITA - pain in the @ss
ITA - I totally agree
GTG - get together
FWIW - for what it's worth
DW/DP - dear wife/dear partner
HTH!
p.s. Can you tell Cecilia's out tonight, and I'm home alone and bored?
sahm ~ toddler breastfeeder ~ cloth diaperer ~ baby wearer
Ditto Mrs._F.
Also....do you want to introduce yourself? Tell us a little about you. You don't have to share your full name or anything too personal, but help us get to know you. We're a really friendly group and we like newbies. :-)
Haha! Sorry about that... I'm so used to posting on TK that I didn't think to introduce myself.
My name is Shannon, DW is Jessie. We live in Southern California and just got our DP last month. We had our reception this past weekend. I have a 5 year old daughter (Lou/Alila) from a previous relationship. DW and I are ready to have our first child together. We love going out to the desert to ride our quads...
Anything else you can think to ask, go ahead, I'm pretty much an open book.
Two Mommies Healing Hearts
Welcome Shannon! I'm J, my wife is K. K hates her life being on 'the web' but if you get know me, you'll learn our names ;-) We are originially from NorCal. I miss California A LOT! I grew up just south of San Jose, and then moved to Sacramento as an adult. K is from Sacto. We're in NY now. We're legally married, we were married in Provincetown, MA in 2007. Welcome to the boards!
I'll introduce myself.
My name is Rikki. My wifes name is Julie. We grew up in Iowa, met while I was in highschool, I moved to CA (Sacramento) when I was 17, she followed we lived together in CA, then we moved up to Oregon, so I could go the Art Institute of Portland. Julie works in technical project managment, and is working towards a BA. I'm working on my AA. We were married in August, and are no where near TTC. Um anything else just ask, I'm a pretty open book, but I talk about Iowa and CA as 'home' so I thought I'd clarify so you didn't get confused. We have an Oregon DP, and are getting married in Iowa later this summer. :-)
Welcome!
I'm Joy and my wife is Christine, or C. We've been together for four years this summer and live in Seattle. I'm working on my MA right now and work as a teaching assistant and doula. We're planning on moving to a bigger place this summer and starting ttc this fall.
Hi! I am Alison and my partner is L (although if you ever find a link to our blog, you'll find out her name!)
We've been together almost nine years and have been married 6 years (not legally, though.) We live in Maryland - near DC. I am a medical social worker and L is a government contractor. We have twin boys who will turn 3 years old in 3 weeks - Grayson and Carter. I carried the boys and got pregnant after 9 tries over 19 months. We aren't having any more kids! 
Welcome!
Blogs: Our Growing Family - CT Working Moms



sahm ~ toddler breastfeeder ~ cloth diaperer ~ baby wearer
gah! stupid nest. duplicate. you can't see me...
Hi! I'm Nicole nad my partner is Jen. We live in Nor. Cal. Just outside of Sacramento and were both born and raised here. We own a condo and have a 2 year old yellow lab "puppy" who runs our life! (Don't get me wrong, we love it LOL) We are having a ceremony in Aug. 2010 and who knows if it will be legal or not but we are still having it!
We are goofy busy girls and always have friends and family around us and are ALWAYS having fun! We would LOVe to have kids right now but we are going to wait until I am done with school, I am studing to be a certified nurse wid-wife.
I think thats it!
Married my best friend 5*15*2008 Trying to start our family 8*2011
unmedicated iui#3= bfp 10/20/11! beta#1=11, beta#2=85, beta#3=741,beta#4=1000,beta#5=2146,beta#6=7454 *please keep doubling*