Spunk me up! - Bus 18

[Juno231]

Come join us on our TTC journeys - all you need is a sense of humour!

Bus history:
June - 24 BFPs
July - 11 BFPs
August - 18 BFPs
September - 4 BFPs

Testing dates:
@2020mission - October 6th
@notyetamumbuttrying - October 6th
@Katao - October 9th
@minster2012 - October 12th
@nestinginNL - October 14th
@Vil10 - October 16th
@Franklydear - October 25th
@Juno231 - October 26th
@clairey844 - October 30th

@Vil10 I think that's a great attitude for your OH on the SA! Do it.

@2020mission I know that's the funniest thing, most ppl wouldn't want to touch them anyway just use their phone! argh I sooooo want a drink go for it! Thursday is the new Friday 😋I'm ok, tried not to think too much bout it today but son been pretty demanding and just screamed and screamed when I tried to put him to bed cos daddy came home from work then got halfway through food with us & got called back out to work to sort out a mess, DS wanted daddy kisses 🙁

@Newbie0818 im sure your OH will be fine with the tests but yeah, def has the same thoughts & male emotions

@Katao you ok? Quiet today, have you tested again or left it now xx

@Newbie0818 I always get pain in one side, went for a scan and they said I was actually ovulating from the other side and sometimes the pain isn't felt where its actually coming from!
I think I read that ppl with PCOS shouldn't take soy isoflavones but you'll need to check x

@Minster2012 I'll sit uncomfortably, with everything crossed x

I need to start up tennis, or exercise. I bet I've put 2 stone on in lockdown!

@2alreadywantanother here's hoping it's your pre-ov warning!

@Vil10 just need AF to stop and I am on it 😂

@2020mission I'm with you, I wouldn't touch the mags 🤢

@Missgoldilocks interesting about the ov! I'll have to ask the doc about it when I next speak to her

Hello. Not too late to jump on this bus I hope! I'm only 4DPO (if I'm correct), so not much going on here right now.

@Newbie0818 I only feel the ov cramps on the left, not a clue if it means anything
I am nearly at my prelockdown weight and lose clothes to prove it! Thanks to my exhausting job and relantless boy boss
@Mosherchick welcome, tell us about you
My ewcm Is definitely gone, so just to wait now....

@BellsB1 Being both American (so starting younger) and older than me my OH has nearly 20 years more driving experience than me, so I may be doing a lot of driving until the anxiety levels get too high and then passing over until I've calmed down again 😂I need the experience as I'm hoping camper van life can become a regular thing for us!

@Newbie0818 I definitely don't pay that much for my inositol! I got a massive thing of 1000 caps and have OH taking it too for his swimmers (not that he's been tested yet, just in case though). It was one recommended on the sperm meets egg website, she's got a UK supps list. I notice a huge difference with it an my PCOS if that's at all comforting/helpful!

@Minster2012 yeah, I've stopped 99% of caffeine while ttc and only have occasional matcha lattes now and it gives me a huge buzz, so it might come down to that to get us to the pup. Come hell or high water! Also tennis... I keep talking about joining the tennis club here and being warned off by friends, apparently the clubs here in this area are very mean girls clique of millionaire judgey housewives. Are they better where you are? 😫😂😂

Something's going on with me. I only managed a little dinner and then felt super nauseous and had to sit very still for an hour sipping tea. That and I'm shattered with no brain. Found my phone in the freezer where I put it while trying to put something else there, earlier. I feel like the days right before AF is due are the worst. Too soon to test, but major symptom spotting territory.

I'm now torn between wanting a BFP and not wanting too weeks in a van puking if I do get one.

Does anyone else think of that old sitcom Coupling when they think of sperm samples? Where he brings his pillow? Tried to find it on YouTube but couldn't so now I'm just hoping someone else knows the reference 😂

@franklydear Thank you! Fingers crossed for you.

I've been TTC on and off since January. Our first attempt ended as a phantom pregnancy a few months later. If that taught me anything, it's that my mind has crazy power over my body! So I've learnt not to symptom spot, and I don't take tests until I'm 5 days late. I'm hoping that chatting with you ladies will help me take my mind off things while we wait, again!

Oh, and I'm pretty sure I've ovulated twice this month.

@Newbie0818 I’m pretty sure soy isn’t recommended for PCOS but definitely ask your GP before taking any

@notyetamumbuttrying yeah good point but to be honest my OH is pretty healthy, drinks about 6 litres of water a day, gym 6 days a week, eats healthy, walks all day everyday, rarely smokes only sometimes socially, doesn't go out drinking every weekend so if something did come back it would be like, well what does he have to change😩 I'm so glad your OH is helping too!! I bet it makes it so much easier now he's on board too, probably the kick up the arse all men need!! Ohh really?? Do you not think his sperm can be changed if he changes certain things?? Yeahhh bonkfest 2020 is back on, we have a cosy night in planned on Saturday too, thai green curry then cheeseboard and red wine afterwards with a film, so hopefully get up to a lot of bonking then too!!

@Newbie0818 I'm slowly starting to love the word spunk😂 yeah we're all good now Thankyou for asking!!x

@Minster2012 I'm honestly quite surprised that he actually suggested it!! I think he thought as well like me that as soon as I came off the pill I'd fall pregnant, how naive of us😂

@BellsB1 maybe a cheeky spoon shag when af is a bit lighter??🍆🍆

@Mosherchick welcome!!

@clolo definitely be more selfish, you oh enough money into the nhs!

@Franklydear well done! Job stress has also helped with my waistline which is nice.

@NestinginNL yeah I've tried a couple of brands now, cheaper, expensive, high dose, low dose. I think it's helped shorted the cycles a bit but not much else :/ just want some proper medical intervention now 😫

Thanks for the soy comments, maybe I'll stay away from it in that case!

@BellsB1 with you on the not touching the scales though I was doing OK til a few weeks ago then they tell you to ease off at IVF. They don't tell you to eat these party rings though 😬

@clolo definitely push push push go on. Put you first.

@Mosherchick hey! Welcome to the crazy bunch. Take a biscuit & settle in! When's your test date for @Juno231and don't mind @Franklydear's welcome there straight into "so tell us about yourself, my ewcm is gone" I believe the last bit is not linked to the first, more a passing comment on her vaginal innards such as we are! What's a phantom pregnancy?

@NestinginNL I worry that our local tennis club is very cliquey 50/60 year old middle class women so similar just bit more downmarket. Errrr think you need a test lady. It's a good thing we didn't send @Franklydear out to Netherlands to confiscate them though only just in time, she's packing her bag now ewcm has packed hers

@Minster2012 @NestinginNL in our village the tennis club is well known for people having affairs with each other!! I like to think of it as a middle class swingers club 🤣 I’m not a member just to clarify

@minster2012 omg I've a pack in the press. Didnt want to.open cause I mind kids and they would have ate then all. I'll ate over the wkend on peace lol

@Minster2012 Phantom pregnancy is when the body acts and grows as though it's pregnant, but there is nothing inside. It started as a chemical pregnancy, but when that positive disappeared, I clung to it too hard and made myself ill. I continued to have symptoms for three months while my belly grew, and no GP would see me in the middle of Covid. So we rented an ultrasound machine that showed us that my uterus was a big empty cave. Lesson learnt the hard way!

@mosherchick oh god. That's hard to get your head around. I've heard of them b4 but didnt actually know they happened for real.

@Mosherchick my cm is definitely separate from your info
@Minster2012 ds saves the party rings from the variety pack for me, not sure if he just doesn’t like them though
@Newbie0818 thanks but I still have a long way to go to last year, hopefully we’ll have to stop dieting soon

@Mosherchick oh dear! I think you are fit right in with us

Not had chance to read through the thread yet but I'd love to join. Testing around the 17th so officially in the TWW now. I'm feeling hopeful for this month as AF was the first more normal one after coming off the coil in July.

Not had chance to read through the thread yet but I'd love to join. Testing around the 17th so officially in the TWW now. I'm feeling hopeful for this month as AF was the first more normal one after coming off the coil in July.

Not had chance to read through the thread yet but I'd love to join. Testing around the 17th so officially in the TWW now. I'm feeling hopeful for this month as AF was the first more normal one after coming off the coil in July.

Aw @Minster2012 thanks for thinking of me. Just caught up now. Was quietly sulking today. No need to test again. Af showed up a day early. The bitch! Gutted. How are you? Are you testing again at the weekend?