June Bus - who's on board?

[MrsLBear]

Hi ladies 💕

13dpo today and af is imminent as temp dropped to cover line plus a bfn. So who's joining me?
TTC #1
This will be cycle 13 since mmc (Feb 19) but been TTC since June 2018 so a horribly momentous month for me.

Bought some vitamins recommended by it starts with the egg for this month and also male conception tablets for DH. So we shall see 🤞🏼

Lots of luck and baby dust to everyone 🍀🌈💕

@SmileyT what do you guys do? My ndn is a nurse, him and his wife just got married last year and she found out she was pregnant just before lockdown 🙁 she’s had to go live with her parents because of his work. It’s horrible for them.

I was going to kill DP last night in bed. We had spag bol for dinner and he put extra garlic powder in his 🙄 full room stunk of garlic all night and it kept waking me up. Boys stink.

I love the bed to myself too! He has a few drinks on a Friday and stays up all night on the PS4 with his friends since lockdown and I actually get a full nights sleep. He goes to bed when I get up so I get a half day without him too. It’s brilliant 😂

@Ltay2 I would keep going with the OPKs & yes hope it’s towards the end of the week 🤞🏻

@BumDiggyDiggyDiggyBumDiggyBum I’m totally with you on the work thing, I have been shielding too since March since MC & I’m so bored & get frustrated with an active toddler I’m now potty training my DH been working entire time & yet keeps making comments “this isolation is so dull” yet he’s only doing it at weekends like I remind him 😖I think we’d divorce if he had to be at home ALL the time with us!

@SmileyT fingers crossed it will change if I get a positive OPK then, though I’m rubbish at doing them & drink a lot of water so I hope it’s picked up

Welcome aboard newcomers!

Someone asked what OPK means & yes it’s the ovulation predictor strips, if we say CB then that’s Clear Blue (I’m using both to try pinpoint when ovulation is) & IC is internet cheapies

Are you all using the CB ones that link to your phone (I believe)? I’m using the CB little computer one where you buy the sticks separate and put them into it. I used it last time but maybe it’s a bit outdated now? Still works so I’m using it. Still using an old box of sticks too which have passed expiry but still seem to work! My OH doesn’t believe in expiry dates and at £30 a box we thought we might as well use these up first!

@BumDiggyDiggyDiggyBumDiggyBum 😂😂😂😂 I feel for you regarding smelly nights after garlic! My DP is the exact same and bloody loves the stuff! He does most of the cooking and I've asked more than once if we are having anything with our garlic for a change!

I have to say we have been very fortunate so far. DP is able to work from home full time (although he hates it) and I work in Cardiology so it had been a bit quieter but it's very much business as always. My family live quite far from us though and not being able to spend time with and my brothers is horrible; especially after a loss.

What's everyone day looking like so far? My AF is drying up already so into phase 2 I guess!!

@Cocoblue22 I’m using the CB advanced digital not the ones with the computer, on my last month I used the non digital ones & the sticks were out of date (Sep 19) & they worked ok so I tend to agree with your DH

@BumDiggyDiggyDiggyBumDiggyBum omg since lockdown my OH has done the same he stays up late on the Xbox with his mates so once 10pm comes I'm off to bed and leave him downstairs and he doesn't come up until like maybe 2am sometimes so is nice to have the bed to myself for a bit 😂

@Minster2012 i read that as your potty training DH for a minute 😂😂has to take a second look😂

Sorry I meant to @BumDiggyDiggyDiggyBumDiggyBum 😂 it was clearly so funny I @ the wrong person

@Cocoblue22 I am using the CB digital ones also the purple sticks

@Minster2012 yes! We’re getting married next year and I might cancel if he doesn’t stop being so stinking and annoying. I obviously don’t fart and DD is only 5 so hers aren’t bad, his are absolutely vomit inducing. DD game downstairs last night and told him to go for a shower cos he smells like shit 😂

I just did my daily exercise so feeling buzzing now, although that might be the pre workout 😂 suppose I should knock that on the head really. Although I was in tramadol and 5 or 6 cans of red bull a day when we conceived DD. That explains her personality actually 😂

@lucyrp it’s fab isn’t it I look forward to Friday nights all week 😂

I bought the wee cheapo amazon ov sticks are they any good?

We have decided to try DTD every day from tomorrow until Sunday to make up for lost opportunities in the last couple of days. Even if we skip a day it shouldn't be too bad. Not had any EWCM yet and going to OPK test twice today so hoping for at least Friday ovulation if not Saturday 🤞🏼

Hello, ladies
Cd3 and ready to get back on the horse, I haven't read in the last couple of days, I'll catch up

@BumDiggyDiggyDiggyBumDiggyBum oh I miss having the bed to myself! My OH was in the army for 6 years and that is the one thing I miss about it lol.

As for lockdown - we're both in financial services so can wfh which we've been doing this whole time. I can't stand it though - our flat is too small for it and the lack of proper set up makes my whole body ache. Not to mention it's sooo hard to keep motivated when wfh. I know we're lucky though so I shouldn't complain too much. We're in the process of buying a house and I can't wait for it to have an office 🙊

Ltay - I use "my calendar" it's more of a period and symptom tracker but I swear it's the most spot on for ovulation. I've used it for 3+ years and I think it's been wrong 3 times and that's including after birth.

Morning ladies. Cd1 here so hoping to join you, jumping on the June bus.

Wishing lots of baby dust on everyone x

@BumDiggyDiggyDiggyBumDiggyBum we are both fake key workers, i'm a mortgage advisor for a high street bank and he is a signaller for a national rail company. I had a MC 2 days after the announcement that pregnant people should shield so I'd mentally prepared to be at home for 12 weeks then I had the bad news of MC and the fact I had to go back into the office 😩 Glad you are feeling good after a workout, I need to get myself motivated for home workouts x

@Minster2012 here's hoping it updates itself, I also realised last month that if you put in EWCM it will automatically update it as your ovulation day.

@33Carr interesting you say about work, I had a client last week who is a nurse and I assumed she would be mad busy and she said she was actually quieter as she works with works on a ward that deals with abnormal smear investigations and she said she is quieter as less referrals and she is just catching up on admin. Hope you are keeping safe xx

Cd11 nothing on CB yet. Running out of dticks and patience 😂
Hi to all who have joined.
@SmileyT I'm a bit unsure about when to use the opks too. When i Google it says its best to test in the afternoon as the surge usually starts in the morning and fmu might not have enough in it to be detected but then CB instructions say use fmu. I wonder is that because that brand checks 2 different hormones? Anyway i have only 3 more CB sticks so going to use them with fmu and an ic in afternoon to cover all bases.

@SmileyT I’m trying to keep an eye out for ewcm but never really paid attention before so fingers crossed that changes OV day on femometer

@lucyrp often feels I’m trying to potty train DH, both not great so far!

@Franklydear morning & welcome

@SmileyT & @33Carr most of my nurse/doctor friends are very much less busy

CD10 - AM - negative ovulation test.

So I'm guessing I just had a dodgy IC test the other day. Very odd, unless I've just ovulated super early and missed it.

I'm a SAHP. DP works in construction. He's home all the time just now, and as much as I prefer it to him working, it's doing my head in now lol DD and I had such a good little routine before all this madness.

@Katao def use the CB in the morning with fmu, then yeah most ppl do an IC in afternoon or if more frequently then maybe 12, 4, 8pm when you get a high, that’s what I’m hoping to do, dashing smile on CB yesterday & today but nothing on IC

Suddenly feeling very deflated today, I woke up in such a good mood and after having a chat with a "friend" feeling not so optimistic anymore ☹️

Thanks @Minster2012 yes i think i will order more ic opks and use them fairly regularly as i missed confirming O last month. I got a darkish opk cd14 but never a full postive so not sure if hormones were on the way up or down at that stage. Only have enough CB sticks to take me to cd 14.

What did your 'friend' say to you @lucyrp? I hope nothing negative about ttc?!

@notyetamumbuttrying yes it was very negative about TTC! She's a funny friend I never understand her really we've been friends for years but she's hard to place. She's currently pregnant for the first time they've been TTC for 3 years and had 3 MC and she was pregnant just before I found out I was and then I had a CP and she wasn't very happy about me being pregnant at the same time and was very negative about the whole thing and I almost felt like when I found out I had a CP she was happy about it. I was just telling her that me and OH we're DTD every day this cycle and sometimes more than once a day and she was saying that's bad and I could be drowning the sperm etc etc and everything I'm doing is wrong 😢