The Bumsnet/Angry Pubes Bus

[Mummyofonesofar]

If you can keep up with a bus that fills up in one weekend and chat shit then jump aboard the bus you are never allowed to leave! Trying to set a target for most BFPs on one bus!

No LPBs allowed!

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Morning

Thanks Purdey. Haha at your hubby needing an early night Purdey, looks like you've had a bad night. How is Nancy this Morning?

Frog, we need a photo of your finished blanket

Sparkly, I wondered where you were, sounds like a busy day. And yay for being half way through the 2ww

Victoria, hope works not too awful. Ds and I are off to meet his cousins for an Easter egg hunt at the local
Farm and then we may have a wander along the beach if the rain stays away. Hope everyone has a good day

Just to show you how crap one step preggers tests are I accidently dipped one instead of an opk.

eskimo

Two random pieces of information today:

1. I too had an unbroken night's sleep Vic. I dreamt I got fingered by Liam Gallagher. Much as I love LG, I was woken by his surprisingly gentle digits and couldn't get back to sleep.

1. DH has just solved the world troubles by coming out with this little gem 'As soon as girls stop doing duck face selfies, the world will be a better place.'

Have a lovely day everyone

Lol at your dream Eskimo! I had a dream I was being chased through a shut down mental asylum by aliens shapeshifted into humans and had to take cover in a market where I evaded them by looking at some very nice handmade handbags!

Morning teabreak already! Woo! Shed loads to do at work, don't know where to start!

Very quiet in here, everyone else having a lie in?

purdey about 18 million posts ago or last night it when ever, you asked about our 'failure to launch' (thanks for the euphemism by the way). It only occurred when we have ttc sex which is the only sex we have. I think it doesn't help our tardiness to conceive but Im also thinking my pathetically short cycles and light AF is also not helping. Really hard to know what our problems are but having been around here a while it's obvious, and sad, to me that we have much less climactic sex than most other people.
DH read the thread title over my shoulder earlier and now wants me to explain bumsnet and angry pubes. At least that diverted him from realising I discuss our sex life on an open forum online.... I'd be divorced if he realised.

Sorry for posting only about me!

Morning everyone!! Quiet bus!! So, ff changed ov date back to CD16 again this morning..... We have just had a late breakfast and now having showers before walking down to supermarket to do a big shop.

Will catch up with you all later

Boris I'm sure it happens to us all sometimes. (Usually for us when we try and sneak one in before work and have one eye on the clock!)
CD7. So bored. at least in a few days I can start with the opks.

A quiet bus means I may actually be able to catch up. I feel terrible for dipping in and out. Hope you are all well.

Morning lovely ladies,

Vic I'm working today - boo!!

Spins promise I'll upload a pic when edging is finished.

Eskimo your dream sounds erm, well, erm, interesting strange ha ha!!

Boris we've all been there, don't worry x

I love this less hectic bus. Did we lose any non-preggo passengers when we had that brouhaha? Hope not.

Boris, hang on a fine minute...who the hell says you have to climax to conceive?? If that were the case hardly anyone would get pregnant. Can't you finish yourself off afterwards if you really believe that horse shit stuff about dipping cervix in pools of spunk leading to faster conception? I do think more sperm = more chance of pregnancy, I really do. If you're twenty-two and your bloke has good sperm you don't need much of it, but I feel us lot who have been trying for a while do need to keep the ante up. It's so hard, though, when the pressure's on. Thank goodness th'usband is happy to AI or I swear I would never have a chance.

I take it none of you appreciated my Gail-from-Corrie pic. Lobotomies all round, mefinks

purdey there's still no sign of wotsits, haven't seen her on April bus either

Actually I've been meaning to ask a question about babymaking and spunking.

So, the uterus supposedly swells and sticks out more during the fertile period. A bit like a bell end at the end of your vagina. There's often talk on here about legs in the air, bottom on pillow, upside down cycling etc.

Now I often think to myself, what's the point? Surely if the pelvis tilts then the spunk will just dribble to the sides of the uterus? Rather like lemon juice in a juicer?!!

Thoughts?

Loving the use of the word Brouhaha btw. Not used enough imo.

boris I geniunely think that everyone will have these issues at some point or another. Unless you're a luck lpb who doesn't reaalllly have an idea about what it's like to ttc.

I would also be in big trouble if DP found out about me posting here. He's very private.

eskimo loving your dh's opinion on selfies, lol!

Hope everyone else is ok! I'm midway through my depressing Easter weekend of night shifts. DP is off out enjoying himself somewhere and I've only just got out of bed . Was paid £200 quid double time for last nights shift though so should stop complaining really.

dizzy I always imagine tiny sperm commando crawling towards and through the cervix. The evidence is it doesn't matter at all whether you are legs up or not as the velocity of ejaculate propels semen through the open cervix BUT those crawling tadpoles who missed the surf in my head at least might make it back to the cervix more easily if they didn't have to shuffle upwards against gravity. In reality you can cover your bases if your worried by just not getting up for a while after sex. Get your DP to bring you a glass of thirst quenching nutritional milk.

I usually lie for half an hour using my iPad while DP has a nap lol. In my head I imagine that if DP is pushing in deep when he ejaculates then he will be perfectly aligned with my opening anyway and the swimmers will pass seamlessly through into my cervix?! Lol.

Can I join

Sulking as just started C4. Have PCOS. Being honest DH and I normally only DTD once a month, we both have low sex drives. Neither of us are enjoying TTC. We have been DTD every other day and on OPK +ve, but had 3 LH surges last cycle, which meant a lot of DTD. We only DTD day before last surge +ve, DH refused on surge day and next 2 days as he had had enough. Apparently 7 times in 10 days is his limit.

He actually wailed "I'm not a machine"

So we have had the 2ww off and now the week I'm on but are both dreading starting again. It would be ok if my surges were on weekends but they seem to be mid week when DH doesn't get home till past 10pm from work and is too tired and grumpy. We are both ok when we get going, it is just neither of us can be bothered to start in the 1st place. Just resigned to the fact that we have to, to make a baby. Worst being I don't know if I actually ovulated as PCOS gives false +ve LH surges and I can't temp as I have a sleep disorder and spend large amounts of the night awake and fidgeting.

I'm seeing Dr on 7th, who is hopefully going to give me clomid, she did say last year when she checked my fertility she would only leave me 3 natural cycles and then would help.

Thank you for letting me vent.

rufus welcome, if you need to vent this is certainly the place to do it!

What a difficult situation you're in. I just wanted to say, please don't resent your DH when he's less than enthusiastic. This isn't going to help either of you get your baby. 7 times in 10 days is a pretty good effort, I struggle to get my DP to dtd any more than 2 times during my fertile window and he always without fail comes up with an excuse on my peak day! Hes also moaned about not being a machine!

I can't imagine what it must be like to have to go through this several times in one cycle. Stay positive, the 7th is only a few days away now and then it's onwards and upwards for you both.

Also have you considered AI? There's a few ladies on here doing it who could give you advice, it might ease the burden for you both on those late weekday evenings.....

Another thing that is making me cross at the moment is I've been taking 5 tablets a day prenatal vits and sups (3 are huge). DH whinges and wines and complains and forgets to take his, he probably only takes them twice a week. He didn't like swallowing tablets so we got him gummies when we were in the US, even bought a small bottle so he could try the taste (taste like haribo star mix). Now he says they taste disgusting and I'm so mean and evil making him eat them! I want to wring his bloody neck at times! (I do love him really) He also takes a drug (proscar) for his hair loss that decreases male fertility and sex drive but he forgets to take it most days and I wouldn't ask him to stop it because if there was a magic pill I could take to stop my thin hair I would in a heart beat.

I'm putting my body through all this hell. I have really bad PCOS symptoms, my body hair that I had lasered off 10 years ago has all started to regrow since coming off the pill. I'm covered in spots, my hair is a constant grease pit, with spots all over my scalp. What if he doesn't have any swimmers anyway?

I have asked him to AI but he refused, he said we have to have sex to make a baby and that was the end of it. I'm not sure if he even masturbates at all, I tried to ask but he just got too uncomfortable.

rufus is he due to have any tests? Maybe these would be a reality check for him.

Maybe he geniunely is crap at remembering to take his meds. Especially as he's forgetting to take his hair loss medication, you would think this would be top on his list of priorities!

Your pcos symptoms sound terrible. from what I've seen on ff plenty of people do get preggo though with this illness? Stay strong, you will get your baby. We all have our bad days and we deserve a mopey day once in a while too to let all the emotions out! But try not to stress too much as its really not going to help. Hopefully you'll feel better after your appointment

rufus you need a sparkly pep talk! sparkly where are you?!

I've just been bastard well baby bombed. In my own house. On my own settee. By my 40 year-old childless best friend (one of two I hold dear) who is marrying her 25-year-old lover in June and who has only just had a lap & dye followed by corrective surgery as parts of her bowel were fused to one ovary, ditto her bladder and fallopian tube (which was irreparably blocked); had endometriosis scraped away from numerous sites and who stopped temp charting recently as she 'clearly isn't ovulating'. I'll be back when I have finished punching soft furnishings and uttering unconscionable things about 'jammy twats'

..and yes, I know I am ingrate and a horrid friend.