Wait…What Does That Mean? Your Fertility Acronym Survival Guide AMH. AFC. FSH. IUI. IVF. ICSI. PGT-A. FET.

Welcome to fertility treatment—where sometimes it feels like everyone suddenly starts speaking in alphabet soup.

You walk into your fertility appointment hoping to get answers. Then you hear something like:

“Your AMH looks good, but we’ll check your AFC and FSH, and depending on those results, we can talk about IUI versus IVF, possibly with ICSI and PGT-A.”

And you’re sitting there thinking…

Wait. What does all of that actually mean?

If you’ve ever left a fertility appointment nodding like you completely understood everything—and then immediately started Googling the minute you got to your car—you’re definitely not alone.

Fertility has its own language. And when you’re already dealing with appointments, medications, test results and big decisions, trying to decode dozens of acronyms shouldn’t be one more thing on your plate.

So let’s make it simple.

Here are the fertility terms and acronyms you’re most likely to hear—and what they actually mean in normal, everyday language.