Meaty periods, ivf roadmaps & announcing BFPS on tannoy 📢TTC Bus 31

[Minster2012]

We’ve got the fastest TTC 🚌in the UK & we aren’t afraid of a modification or 2 as we have a bus with a beautiful panoramic roof seat where there is wine & snacks a plenty for those that need a bit of a breather from our race car but still hang on to our ride! 🌞

We thought we might make it to Valentine’s Day ♥️💓 but oh no we talk too much! If you want to talk most things other than TTC we are the right bus, tv, (married at first sight what the hell?!), pets, annoying DHs, good food & exactly how many orgasms should we be having?

We’ve got a rowdy bus of newbies, oldies with history, excited ladies going forwards for IVF & pregnant mates we can’t get rid of...& February is gonna be BIG!

So grab your crotchless panties and not much else for Valentine’s Day 💓and invite your men (or women folk) to dinner cos they are being treated like a REAL LADY. Forget January blues. February is where it’s at and we say UP YOURS TTC, we are cumming to get you 🙌🏻🥰

And if you see mention of my blog then blame these guys they made me do it...#shamelessplug

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Story so far...

June 24 BFPs
July 11 BFPs
August 18 BFPs
Sep 4 BFPs
Oct 7 BFPs
Nov 7 BFPs
Dec 14 BFPs
7 BFPs for jan

@HollieL567 taken the last slot in jan!

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I'm with @Franklydear on @lucyrp here! Oh god

@Sausage1990 they look fab!!

@DJmum83 hope you feel better!

@Sausage1990 aww they do look fab! And yay to being a mcfly fan I know the tour dates keep getting changed!!

@Dollybird89 aww super jealous you got to meet Dougie, although I’m also a Busted fan and got to meet Charlie and that definitely gave me all the feels 😂

@lucyrp oh bless you! I feel you I was the same when I had my retainers in but once I got used to them they stopped giving me ulcers. I had a super vivid dream last night, I was at the market trying to sell a calf and got attacked by a bull. All very scary.

@Florence13 I've got to wear them during the day and night all week for the first week then just at night but the top one was more comfortable than the bottom one yesterday but now that's given me ulcers 😭 they're not that bad but the bottom one doesn't fit great. I also thought I had gum disease which is what @Minster2012 was talking about flappy bits for because I had really flappy gums at the bottom but the Ortho said it's just my gums going down from having my braces off and showed me the mould of my teeth from the day she took them off and my gums were huge there😱 oh no that sounds scary, I literally have a vivid dream every night ay the moment 😴

@holliel567 thanks hun! I'm actually 8 weeks today 😊

@lucyrp with you on the weird dreams, last night I dreamt I punched a woman who was annoying the hell out of me 🤣

@lucyrp aww hun yes I was exactly the same had to wear them pretty constantly the first week. But you do adapt to them I promise it does get easier I don’t even notice mine at night anymore. But my bottom ones have always been worse than the top. Oh bless you.

@Kirky658 mine are awful. I've been dreaming about people I went to school with and people I wasn't even friends with as such 😅🤣

@Florence13 they're not too bad but when she took the moulds I was gagging quite a bit so that probably didn't help with the movement. The back teeth on the retainers are wider then my actual teeth so they don't click on that side but do the other side 🙄 and one side is shorter than the other because I had a tooth out so she just clipped it there instead of having a bridge in the retainer 😂

Ahhhhh yes @lucyrp's flappy bits might get in the way of steak & BJ Valentine's night for OH!

@Florence13 you were selling a calf and got attacked by a bull?! 😱

Remind me not to get on the wrong side of @Kirky658 🤣she punches women!

@lucyrp aww hun that doesn’t sound great at all especially if you already feel sick as well that must make it even worse!!

@Minster2012 I know it was so vivid to! I have no idea where it came from although my grandad did have a dairy farm so maybe it’s that 🤔

@Florence13 yeah the bottom one kept making me gag during the day yesterday because of where my tongue was sitting in my mouth 🤢

@Sausage1990 even when we went out for a meal for it, it didn't feel that romantic. Maybe because it was a pub? I dunno it just felt forced. I've had far more romantic meals tasty were random, if that makes sense? And certainly we are never romantic in the house. 🤣
@Minster2012 my DH has questionable motility. The percentage is low (not dire but lower than the range). But because his actual overall count is high the dr didn't seem that concerned. Whether it really is an issue, I'm not sure. But they seemed to think it shouldn't be impossible. I'm interested to see what the next one shows up though and what the fertility people say.
I have a friend having private ivf though, and their issue is definitely him. They couldn't decide if she was a problem also but it was irrelevant because no way was anything going to happen from his end.

@Minster2012 I've just had a look
Ours is 25% and it should be at least 32%.

@lucyrp haha what are you like 🤣

@Sausage1990 OH doesn't know when valentines is! Never has lol. I reckon we'll just get takeaway and wine, so definitely nothing fancy

Morning everyone

Feeling a bit more normal today. I haven't had one like that in years, had to take imagran seemed to help and I got a bit of sleep.

@Juno231 so fertility friend have put me at 4dpo so we will go with that.
How's you feeling?

@Minster2012 hope you enjoyed drinks with your friend.

We are going to do a special meal on Valentine's make it romantic as we can.
I'll probably have AF so won't be anything sexy for us 😂

Sorry not properly caught up, heading to work but will have a good read through on my break.

@Kirky658 any news on the job? Xx

@djmum83 glad you're feeling better! No news yet. X

@DJmum83 glad you're feeling better today! Your chart is looking good and 4DPO looks more accurate than what it was showing before. (if I remember correctly?)

@clolo ahhh maybe I was thinking wrong then and it's @notyetamumbuttrying not @Justanothercyster, @clolo has your DH/OH been told to take supplements by the fertility clinic? That's it @notyetamumbuttrying your fella is taking supplements right? Then it's clomid? I was talking to my friend about it last night that's all, @paintfairy that's interesting it's part of the business she's in & she was asking me what the first step for her would be to find out her fertility as she's 35 & single because I put our journey out there

@DJmum83 I used to get horrendous migraines but thank goodness haven't had one in a while

@lucyrp oh bless you.

@DJmum83 aww glad you are feeling better I suffer with migraines to and they are horrendous. Your chart is looking good.

Sorry to ask on here but don’t know who else to ask, for anyone that has had a loss at 5-6 weeks when did you get your first period after? Did it really mess with your cycle?

I do wonder if the supplements work. I actually read (on the site for a more expensive one mind) that some actually hinder because they aren't really balanced right. How true that is I've no idea. My DH is on wellman conception but was before the SA. So I don't have a before and after comparison. The cynical side of me wonders if all these supplements actually do the opposite to what we want. Or is it just the only people using them have issues anyway? But we used them before trying. And maybe we should have tried without? Dunno.

@Juno231 a nightmare at the moment clearly!🤣

@Florence13 I'll be alright 😂 how're you ?

@justanothercyster hope you can get the happiness back around moving house, take some time to chill and look after yourself this weekend.

@DJmum83 hope your migraines clear up soon, nothing worse.

@Sausage1990 we don't do anything for valentines day either. I told my OH when we first got together that I dont do valentines day, I want him to be spontaneously romantic throughout the year because he feels it not because a shop tells him it's time to be. Love your organisation skills I have loads of photos waiting to be printed but haven't gotten round to doing anything.

@florence13 my losses have been around the 4 1/2 - 5 1/2 week marks and I've been lucky so far that they didn't majorly disrupt my cycles, ovulated a few days late in come cycles which pushed my overall cycle to be a few days longer than usual but nothing major. This latest ones however has messed with my cycle as I'm now cycle day 20 and still haven't ovulated (usually ovulate around CD 13) so have no idea when my period (or withdrawal bleed if I dont ovulate at all) will come this cycle. 🤷‍♀️ Reading up tho while most go back to normal after a cycle or two it can take up to 6months for your cycles to regulate.

On the crazy dream front I had a bad but good dream last night. I dreamt I had an affair with my ex 😱 Despite it being bad that I was having an affair (which I would never do IRL), I felt so happy and carefree in the dream it was actually an amazing dream. So I think its given me the wake up call that our relationship just now is too strained between lockdown and ttc, we're not unhappy but we're just ticking along with no excitement right now even when we're trying not to think about ttc it's still there in the back of our minds. I want another baby but not at the cost of marriage so I'm going to put it to him tonight about just stopping ttc for 6 months and solely focusing on us and bringing a spark back to our marriage.

@lucyrp I’m a bit anxious as I don’t know if I’m going to get a period or whether I might be lucky enough to have gotten pregnant straight away. I just feel a like a bag of mixed emotions right now.

@DKDK123 thanks for sharing your experience I really appreciate it. I haven’t tracked ovulation so just really not sure but feel like I had symptoms of ovulation. Should be nearing the end of the TWW but just not sure for definite. Sorry to hear your feeling that way but you need to do what’s right for you and your relationship.

@blackcurrantqueen hahaha glad it's not just me! Okay happy days!

@Florence13 absolutely!! I can't wait for mine to arrive! But the matching stockings were out of stock so I need to find some others that will match

@Minster2012 hahaha love a good bonk!!

@Sausage1990 as for Valentine's we've never really celebrated it properly, get each other a funny card, mine to OH this year says "your knob still does the job", and a few years ago he got me a vibrator, but other than that we've never done anything for it, this year we said we're going to get a meal from the local pub, and have a games night and a few drinks, then I'll strut off upstairs to get my outfit on🍆

@DKDK123 so sorry you're feeling like that but I definitely think it's a good decision if you feel like TTC is putting a strain on your relationship, and a break could be exactly what you need! Sending hugs x

We've decided to have a chilled valentines this year. We were going to get a takeaway but then we decided we would re-live our honeymoon in Greece and make some Greek food so Halloumi, kpftas, tzatziki, tomato fritters etc! Looking forward to it xx