When you are experiencing infertility, it can seem like everyone around you has a rosy, fairy-tale ending with their healthy pregnancy and baby—even if they had difficulty conceiving at first. You wonder, “how will my story end? How will I recount this chapter of my life?”

Navigating the “trying-to-conceive” (aka TTC) world can be a crash-course in foreign-sounding words and a litany of abbreviations. We’re here to help break it down and make it understandable.