🎵 Anyone for a spot of Sunday Evening Xylophone? 🌈 TTC Bus 52 🚌

@lakejupiter i would get splash back on that 😂😂dont have a "full force" wee in it 🤪what's the spout for?!

@Franklydear yeah then you get a nice bit then teenagers 😬

My new pot to piss in (my hands are tiny and so is the pot)

@Minster2012 nobody has found a way to prevent the babies becoming toddlers ...

I liked your receptacle crystalllllll @pennysays but was a bit worried it looked like you'd drawn a straw in it??? Wouldn't that make for a very awkward PIAP experience with a straw where it shouldn't be 😂😂

Can't believe the strips even come with their own pot now!! FANCY!!

Omg the men are ridiculous.
CALL THE DOCTORS & SAY "can I book in a SA" why do women have to do all the boring bloody adulting life admin?! Do they think someone teaches us to do stuff like this? Why do we have to teach them??

Hope the illness passes for those struck down.
I'm in zombie ville after an eventful day starting pre 6am with a toddler in my face telling me LOUDLY he was hungry.

Babies are lovely (still hard work)
Toddlers 😬😬😬
Why do we do it??

Dh has announced that tomorrow I am not doing anything either...off to bed in a bit

A lil update from me. Coparent says he's going to look into booking a private SA but not until after this month's inseminations because there's no point. There is a point 😭 but trying not to be grumpy about it. It's hard because I think it's tempting to just focus on inseminations in the run up to them, so it's like "well no point in changing anything up right now", then the super long TWW where it's tempting to think "well we could already be pregnant so no point in booking anything" and then post BFN "well let's just focus on next week's inseminations for now". Agh. But happy it's on his mind at least. He also suggested doing one of those at home kits that are like £30 in boots but I'm not sure whether there's much point in that as they don't tell you much compared to SA.

I got Femometer OPK strips this month and they came with a fancy little reusable wee cup. Not quite Crystal @pennysays but excited for the upgrade.

Sorry to everyone who's poorly! 🤧

@Franklydear well I hope mine loses interest in every second day soon! During the week his opening line was "now let's see if we can't save ourselves a few grand" meaning let's get pregnant the old fashioned way rather than IVF. Romance is officially dead. I hope you feel better soon by the way.

@pennysays you hit the nail on the head 👏 I also feel like I deserve fun, between TTC, having Covid and just restrictions in general.

Another day ahead of visiting/minding other people's babies!

@pennysays we will find the right pot, we do enough research, is it bad that I am already sick of being in bed?, don’t worry, I’ll remain here, it does help

Hi everyone.

@lakejupiter I’m waiting for dp to book the SA. A week has passed. Every time I ask him he says “I don’t know what I am supposed to be doing? Who do I call? What sort of appointment is it.”

JUST.CALL.THE.FffffING.GP

@Franklydear ah no rubbish! I’ve just got over a cold too. Boo.

@Somatronic you make me laugh. I know exactly what is wrong with you. It’s what it wrong with all of us. We spend our whole TTC journeys trying to be “good” eat the right thing, take the right pills, be the right weight, the right age, get the right amount of sperm, piss on the sticks at the right time and sometimes you just need to say F*CK THIS SHT

I’m disappointed by all of your general response to my piss-crystal diagram and think you should have higher hopes for your wee receptacle. I have transitioned to a scoop with a handle, so I feel very superior, still managed to wee on my hand yesterday though. So not that superior.

Hi 👋🏻 just caught up on everyone's posts, sorry I've been absent again.

Just read the lady who spent 3k on baby clothes 😨 there was me feeling stupid for buying one baby grow (for use as an announcement.. if that comes)

@lakejupiter fingers crossed for you this month 🤞🏻

@Franklydear glad you got a negative lft, must be a worry for you. Must just be a cold, hopefully you'll feel better soon 💛

It's the time of year for all sorts of bugs @Franklydear - DS is a full on green snot machine and I've got a bit of it too. A day in bed sounds just what the dr ordered!

Ladies, I’ve been feeling tired all week, but I put it down to still recovering from covid, yes still, but yesterday I started having a runny nose and a sore throat, at 9 yesterday dh send me to bed, I have a terrible cold, lft negative thankfully, I predict a weekend in bed, thankfully dh is quite competent and will pick up the slack, just a pity party post

Hi all. Just catching up with everybody's posts. Ive got a lovely viral infection so been feeling sorry for myself all week! Hope everybody is ok :)

😂😂😂 @Franklydear

Me, me me me

@Somatronic mine also was insisting on every second day, but didn't have the energy levels,😂

@Bundaberg84 hahaha gross 😝

@larrythelizard you wouldn't be jealous if you saw me dragging my arse through through the day! I have to shape up now and wise up. Any day now. And boo about the McDonald's!

I'm trying to explain to my DH that we don't have to DTD today because I ovulated almost a week ago (and I'm hungover) and he just doesn't get it. He's insisting on this every second day thing for the whole month!

@Bundaberg84 I mean......what he does in the privacy of his own home is none of my business 😂😂😂 but jk I think it's just walnuts and supplements

@larrythelizard he seems fine under the performance pressure so far but can imagine it gets quite intense to have to keep "delivering". Maybe it's easier that we each do our thing alone - less performance anxiety!

[quote lakejupiter]@Somatronic thanks - it's taken a lot not to just scream DO ITTTTT this last week. He's on some supplements and a special sperm diet so that's good 😊 I think he's scared but I've been v patient. And it's not like we're shagging anyway so it's sort of good for us to know what we are working with otherwise we are potentially just fapping and syringing in the wind so to speak

I quit smoking pre TTC but smoked three of my friend's Marlboro lights the day I got my AF 😬 - hope the hangover isn't too bad! [/quote]
"He's on a special sperm diet" - if you take that out of context, it made me giggle. Sorry, I have an inner 10 year old boy.

Depends how many times the co-parent can deliver @lakejupiter - DH often struggled...! Also I bet he's not Rod Stewart's age so he shouldn't feel embarrassed! One of my friends swears by 4 x walnuts a day for sperm health, no idea if it's based in science or not...?

Whoop got a static @BellatrixK!

I read that one and was wtf @Franklydear...why is she still with him?!

😂😂😂 @Somatronic im a bit jel of a school night out, I long for those energy levels!

I was going to get a MacDonalds for lunch and got properly gee'd up for it but the bloody drive through is closed and the car park was rammed so I couldn't be arsed to park up and go in. Humph.

Oh gosh, @Somatronic I hope that you’re feeling better now. No way I could handle drinking on a school night now! I’ve gone soft! Love that you got fully into the spirit though, sometimes it’s necessary.

@lakejupiter men are just so frustrating. Their TTC job is so easy in comparison, yet we have to gently manoeuvre them into even simple tasks. I have to remind my DH to take a vitamin supplement then he looks ask wounded when I snap at him for it! To be fair, I think he’s finishing putting undercoat on our new fitted wardrobes now after he finished early today. So maybe I can forgive him (a little!).

Thanks @Minster2012. Tonight will be the real test. I’m getting my hair done straight after school then we’re out for tea with DH’s family. We’ll see how much energy we have after that!

@Somatronic thanks - it's taken a lot not to just scream DO ITTTTT this last week. He's on some supplements and a special sperm diet so that's good 😊 I think he's scared but I've been v patient. And it's not like we're shagging anyway so it's sort of good for us to know what we are working with otherwise we are potentially just fapping and syringing in the wind so to speak

I quit smoking pre TTC but smoked three of my friend's Marlboro lights the day I got my AF 😬 - hope the hangover isn't too bad!

@lakejupiter tell him you wouldn't be so worried if you had more information about what you're working with- just do the bloody semen analysis. It's not a lot to ask. Might be no harm for him to take a supplement too. My DH's semen is fine but the fertility doctor told him to take one anyway.

Why did I go out drinking on a school night? And I smoked 2 cigarettes and I don't even smoke! What's wrong with me 😅

Had a chat w him last night @Minster2012 and was a lot more honest w him about how I felt during TWW and he was very empathetic but also very heavy on the old "don't overthink it/try not to worry". Which is a) good advice and b) impossible 😂 but as has been said here I don't think anyone can know how weird it is to be waiting for something your body either is or isn't doing and you have very little control over until they experience it. And he did say he knows he should go for SA but he's worried about results I think, and is sort of preoccupied with the idea they will judge him for his age (he's very much a late in life potential dad with grown up nieces and nephews and a lot of friends with adult kids). I told him they definitely won't care and that it will just be useful to know what his sperm is like so that we can take the best approach for us and adjust timings, supplements etc if necessary. I'm also trying to remind myself that he does want this to happen - why else would we be doing this whole thing - and that it's early days. I will def let him know about sperm dying off after a few days and may suggest a three/four day hold before first insemination and then also between the weekend and Wednesday. That way we will have a variety of shorter and longer periods of abstinence during insemination week and hopefully at least one of the "deposits" will be brimming with swimmers lol.

I was just looking at the prices for private fertility checks and wondering if we might benefit from a couples package - £500 for SA plus an ultrasound and blood work for me. I've already had some blood work but this might give me more insight into PCOS, thyroid etc.

@Franklydear that's so fucked up!! Hope she leaves the bastard!

Yeah that's a tough one @lakejupiter cos you want to track so you know when it is but frustrating if you then can't change insem or get him over for a quick fap 😂but I'd def still want to track to know, and also I guess if you miss your peak then least you know why it didn't work that month IYSWIM? Have you lined up the SA & chat with him?

@BellatrixK I think you've done brilliantly to cover that static 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

@Franklydear oh god I'm cringing at that thread. She needs to sort her will out put the house in lifetime trust for her kids if she won't kick him out