Trying to Conceive Lingo
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.
To understand fertility, let’s dive in to how the body gets pregnant:
Once each cycle, about halfway between two menstrual periods, one egg matures and is released to reach a sperm within the female reproductive organs. If the egg is fertilized, it can implant and develop over the next 38 weeks into a full-term baby.
That’s a simplified view of the process, but let’s look at the words you might hear or see in a doctor’s office or online forum.
CATHERINE NEEDHAM is from Chattanooga and joined the Designer Drug team in 2013 after earning her PharmD at Samford University in Birmingham, AL. Catherine consults with patients regarding their hormone levels and makes recommendations to providers for bio-identical hormone replacement therapy. She is also interested in functional/anti-aging medicine, infertility, and dermatology. In addition to serving as a Samford University preceptor to teach 4th-year pharmacy students, Catherine is a worship leader at her church. She and her husband have 3 young boys and a dog.
