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 🍀🌈💕

@MrsD... Im so sorry, I missed your update in the messages since I last logged in. Really sorry to hear AF arriving 🥺 here's to the next cycle 🤞 lots of baby dust coming your way xx

@Juno231 I put my last period data in but that’s it! I’ll test everyday for now anyway.

@Skip86 I was better than I’d ever been during pregnancy. Consultant said it was because DPs DNA was in my body and was fighting the disease to protect the baby. All came crashing down when she was 8 weeks, and I ended up in high dependency for 3 weeks, hence the bag.

@OnNaturesCourse @Juno231 I'm also trying to lose weight, I normally do slimming world and have lost nearly 2 stone since last January but keep wavering up and down and I haven't been doing it at all since lockdown and exercise has been non existent where as normally I go to the gym 3/4 times a week and walk and run in between. My weight has crept up by a few pounds according to my scales at home but how in sync with the slimming world ones I have no idea so I could have put on a stone for all I know. I've been for a 5k run this morning tho and now walking in the sunshine

@MrsDh2019 Baby dust for this cycle ✨

Mind if I join the June bus ladies?
AF just arrived today and feeling a little deflated tbh.. I just had a feeling that I was but not to be..
I've just ordered opks for the first time in my life so this is all new to me.. I used to be very regular (28days) before DD and DS but since coming off the coil there in January my cycles have been so long (36days or so). Not even confident I'm even ovulating.. So worth a try with opks. TTC number 3 but feel like it's a whole new world this time.
Been noseying/lurking on here for a while but figured I'd join in today :)

@MrsDh2019 hugs for u and best of luck for next cycle

I am back in the office today after 9 weeks at home (social distancing, only 2 of us here) but I have to say trying to sneak to the toilet with a cup to do OPK testing is very difficult 😂

Hi ladies,

I'm heading over here from the May Bus after taking a few days off to just stop thinking about TTC. My cycles have been all over since my molar pregnancy which ended back on October. I've been under monitoring for months and I'm finally cleared to try again and last month was cycle one. I was bummed when AF showed up 4 days early but I'm taking it as a positive sign my cycles are actually returning to their normal length after having much longer cycles since my MC.

Nice to see some familiar names!

@SmileyT
@Ltay2
@MrsDh2019

How you all doing ladies?

AF has been vicious for me this time, I've had more bleeding each day than I usually have in my whole cycle but I'm guessing that's just my body regulating and getting back no normal now there's no HCG flying around my system screwing things up!

CD4 for me today. Glow is predicting ovulation on CD 16 same as last month. Flo seems to still be using a 33 day cycle so expect that will be way out but we shall see!

Baby dust to all!

@Skip86 So weird, as if it's my first month doing them & there liking confusing me like that. Its day 2 & I'm coming to the conclusion theres something wrong with me 😂 I done my CB this morning at 8 was a big fat ⭕ (I sort of expected atleast a flashing smiley after 2 of yesterday's IC being pretty dark) why isnt anything simple 🙄 feel like I need give up the IC until I get a flashing smiley or I'm gonna stress myself out & its day 2 😂 congrats on the static smiley for u 🥳

@TTCgee This is my first month doing BBT too & mines all over the place, hoping by the end of the cycle though that it all makes sense 😂

@Katao Yay to the flashing smiley!! Out of the nothing zone, hope it's not too long to your static.

@MrsDh2019 Sorry it came on heavier for u, it sucks when the body plays tricks! Fresh start for a new cycle now 🤞🏻

@SmileyT Pretty much same as me then (although I'm not taking any supplements) I use Femometer for it & I only just realised when u go on the chart & look at it on landscape it looks all nice, I was looking at it without landscape & was convinced theres something wrong just looked so up & down daily 😂

@Maybe333 Sorry AF got u & sending hugs! It will be good to see when u ovulate especially with longer cycles atm with your OPKs. Sending u lots of baby dust for this cycle 🙏🏼

@Noble89 Ah I'm sorry AF got u & especially early, its nice to see u being positive though & definitely take it as a good thing of first cycle since you've been cleared from the hospital so u know your body is doing its thing 🙏🏼 time to spoil yourself while on AF, raid those snacks 🥰 sending u lots of baby dust for this cycle!

Thanks everyone so much for being so lovely 💖 it’s great to have you all to talk to! I’m sorry I can’t reply to you all individually I’m at work and so only get to check my phone very briefly during my shift. but wishing you all baby dust and thanks again for your lovely encouragement 😊💖 xx

@juno231. "better to be a gas bomb during AF than FW"
funniest thing i heard in weeks

Thanks @KRK05 I'd keep testing with the ics if I was you, at least youwillhave the information. Also I could be wrong but I think you are pretty likely to get a blank on the CB when you first use it because it has to build a baseline hormone level for you. Open to correctionon that though

@Katao Yeah your definitely right it does need a baseline, I've used it twice now. Il test with IC again about tea time & if it's still the same il use my CB again so it's getting more a baseline & then hope for a flashy atleast over the next couple days 🤞🏻

@ltay2 my ICs came with a tiny little plastic cup that easily fits in my palm and wouldn't be spotted by anyone I don't think. Maybe something to locate for next cycle?

@lucyrp well done on losing 2 stone! That's ideally what I'd like to lose as well but if I'm lucky pregnancy will get in the way of that. Managed to lose 3kg since the 20th last month (not counting the 1kg I've somehow gained over the weekend whilst still at a calorie deficit??) and when AF showed I was at least happy I could perhaps squeeze in another 3kg this cycle. Am so bloated right now though, I reckon I could pass for someone 5 months pregnant easily!

@Juno231 I fell off the wagon a bit mainly because I thought I was pregnant and I was eating everything in sight and I thought oh well no point dieting now because I'm pregnant and then I had the CP so I was like right you've got to carry on now no excuses, I think at the moment my total loss is only 1 stone 4 pounds. I get really frustrated because I lose like 5 pounds to start with and then it goes down to 2 W every week then sometimes il stay the same and sometimes il put on 2 pound but I'm still doing the same amount of exercise. Being a woman is hard work!

@lucyrp ok so you wanted to know how it went today... DH was struggling a bit with getting the job done this afternoon (the pressure of TTC and the fact he had a meeting in 10 minutes 😂), so I started talking to him about porn! Just asking what he likes and to describe scenes 🙈🙈 - it worked like a charm!! 😆 Next step is to actually watch some together, hahaha.

@Juno231 and @Minster2012 thank you 🥰 I'm often a bit apprehensive to talk about my illness in real life because it's not the most high brow table talk, but it's lovely to have people on here supporting and encouraging the conversation 💗

@BumDiggy aah I'm sorry that happened to you and with an 8 week old too 😢 you're one tough mumma!

@Maybe333 we're similar, ttc #3 and first time opks. Good luck x

@Noble89 sorry AF is being such a bitch. Hopefully giving your body a cleanse and fresh start 😊

@Juno231 Oh that is a good idea! Mine didn't come with anything. It's especially difficult as I work with family and my mum in particular would be asking why I'm taking a cup to the toilet and I wouldn't be able to come up with any kind of alternative excuse 😂

@Juno231 I've just thought - I have loads of plastic shot glasses at home I can just use them instead, not like I'll be using them for anything else any time soon 🙈

@Ltay2 I was going to say I started weeing in a shot glass if I’m doing it on the move! Takes a bit of aim & a lot of hand washing but does the job 😂

@Skip86 next step you are a porn star! 🤩happy we’ve helped the process! & totally agree on the open talk as well it’s not like much is TMI on Mumsnet!

@Katao i started on day 10 this time with the CB & I got 2 days of O Before it changed so hang on in there, So I got my smiley on CD12 still waiting for static 😣

@Noble89 I was kinda like you having had a number of bleeds after medicated MC & last one was heavy bleed so hoping it’s a “factory reset” I’m hoping yours is the same

Welcome @Maybe333!

@Skip86 Went from yesterday no porn, to today il talk porn, next youl be watching it, I love it 😂 anything for TTC 🙌🏼 Il be keeping this in mind for if OH struggles by the end 😜

@Ltay2 shot glass will def do the trick!! Yeah I can imagine it's hard to come up with an excuse and I'm sooo bad at lying full stop, never mind on the spot. You'd see it on my face it was a lie from a mile away.

@lucyrp pfft I've fallen off the wagon so many times! I started putting weight on when I left uni and spent all day sat on my arse in an office working super long hours. That was 9 years ago and since then I've been gaining and losing the same 2 stone every couple of years. I'm so sick and tired of feeling chubby, being embarrassed about being in bikinis or having my arms out - and the fact that 85% of my wardrobe doesn't fit as I don't want to buy things size 12 as I insist one day I'll get back into my size 8/10... ridiculous!

@Juno231 I'm exactly the same 😂😂 my drawers are full to the brim with clothes but most of them don't fit 😂😂 I am mostly size 10 now but my wardrobe is all size 8 jeans and some crop tips which I can't wear as I have a belly 😂

@Skip86 ooooo success! I will have to try talk my OH into watching it with me. The other day I started watching it sat next to him and thought he might join in but the look on his face said different 😂

Hi guys,

@KRK05 how are you getting on with your CB tests and the other ones? Are you doing both?

I've been using the CB tests since Sunday and still ⭕️ this morning which I was expecting but both of my apps are predicting OV on the 22nd which I thought would have meant at least a flashy smile by now? I think I must OV later than I thought.

Feeling less stressed about it all this month, but I guess that'll end as soon as I hit the TWW 🤣

@lucyrp just seen you're a fellow slimming world follower! Well done on the 2 stone weight loss. I've been struggling with it since lockdown too! I think I need some new meal inspo. X

I love catching up with this chat! 😂

@skip86 Glad the porn did the job! I've suggested it before but for my own fun rather than DPs and he wasn't quite so keen 🤔 😂

@lucyrp @juno321 What you both have said about weight loss and clothes, I could have written it myself!! Lost loads of weight last year and bought a new wardrobe to match my bangin' body, then this year has all gone to pot and I've put a stone back on and barley anything fits 😭 slowly getting back into it though and have lost half a stone... just need to keep going!

Just got back from a lovely walk, sometimes I can drive myself up the wall thinking things over and over but it was great to get some nice headspace. How's everyone else's day going?

Using a shot glass is such a good idea! Certainly going to keep one handy in my bag for work! Having to wash my hands a million times as it is so that shouldn't be much issue 😂😂