Yoga slurping & keep fit POASticking - TTC unconventionally BUS 33

[Minster2012]

So our valentines treats did the trick & we’ve got some BFPs for February...HORRAY!! 🥳♥️😘

We’ve picked up some newbies who come armed with a flesh light for horses, 🐴a penchant for McSteamy & 2 extra Sausages 🐶🍆for us to add to our rowdy bus.

If all else fails we can send our dogs round the country...stud them to each other cos they don’t understand social distancing and get a hella cute bus loads of pups instead, they can then teach us how to do it!

Grab your popcorn for Married for at First Sight, your briefcase for the horse spunk & make your decision on whether you are McSteamy or McDreamy...🩺

We’ve got the fastest TTC 🚌in the UK & we talk like it’s a WhatsApp group so be prepared...but don’t worry cos long as you pop in and out & say hello once in a while you can sit on top, we’ve got room for you to chill out if TTC gets too much.

We are a rowdy bus of newbies, oldies with history, excited ladies going forwards for IVF & pregnant mates we can’t get rid of and we are now OWED BIG.

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

3 BFPs for February so far, plenty of time left 🤞🏻🤩

Haha I dont mind people seeing who I am on insta, think I figured out a couple of people...@Juno231 I thought I had found you based on the first 2 letters of your first and second name but now im not so sure 🤣 to be fair I had nothing on my profile that would give away who I am on here so I added a little bio to help haha!

Guess what.....30 days til ovulation (doing a little jiggly dance💃) wahoo! The pom juice starts today! I also saw a really good friend of mine yesterday who had her 2nd baby boy a few backs ago, (dont worry... had plenty of sanitiser and wore our face masks) lol. But oh my gosh he made my womb ache! His so gorgeous! And even better...she gave me back my doppler I had for my DD pregnancy lol! Wahooo! And also gave me some vests and babygrows that won't fit her little one....am I jinxing it? Lol then I couldn't sleep last night...tossing and turning thinking I'm so caught up on ovulation being in 30 days what if it doesn't come, or somehow taking all this supplements delays it 🤣 think I'm building myself up for a blow.

Well what a bloody morning!! Went to see my grandma this morning and she had a TIA (this will be her 3rd one and we are waiting for mri results) so I was on the phone to 111 then trying to get my sister to get round quick because all this happened as I was getting ready to set off to my appointment!! Ended up being 20 minutes late for my app but they were really understanding because it's actually my gp who are ringing my grandma back for a consultation!

So really positive news!!! My ovaries and womb looks absolutely fine!! I was so relieved!! They think it's to do with my bowel because thats around the same area I get pain and with my IBS too it would make sense, he's prescribed me mild laxatives that basically loosen up my shit😂 told me to carry on eating fibre and drinking lots, he said give it a month, make a note of my symptoms and what I'm eating and then we'll review! Asked him about Zika virus in Mexico and he didn't really know much about it to be honest but he did say I probably won't be going to Mexico anyway, and asked about my luteal phase and he said not to listen to Google and that it always says the average but it varies from woman to woman, he said if my luteal phase carries on getting shorter and shorter (it's 11 at the min) then to ring back and if it gets to 12 months TTC to ring back and they can do tests! He also said maybe don't have sex as much in FW🤔 said the sperm count will be lower, so maybe don't have sex for 5 days then have sex the day of peak...

Ahhhhh sorry about that ladies, no it was 6 vials if blood my bad. Bearing in mind it was 2.77 before & can't go up that would be a miracle 🤪

@Hopeful110 that doesn't seem long now! Do you then track it?? How can you be so precise already?

Someone asked if the stick combusted this morning, no Cos still in date I guess! No flaming fanny yet 😝😛

Dog accounts too linked to my other accounts so I've deactivated my dog account (sorry dawgs!) and made a new private account. Hint: 🌻

@Minster2012 those sticks were a lucky find, I don't dare doing opks, DH suggested it, but I think they'll get me obsessed and stressed pretty quick
@Vil10 don't have sex in fertile week? A what? Not a very day but surely mist, also I thought 5 days of swimmers built up wasn't a good thing....

@Minster2012 yeah its actually come around quite quickly to be fair! Mentally I built it up in my head like oh its ages away, plenty of time...which was quite relaxing...now its 30 days away and I'm panicking what if we aren't successful again, how much more can we do to 'do our bit?' And how quickly will i ovulate after this time? Even with taking clomid i assume it takes a while to get into the system and work Lol. Crazy huh! Gonna start tracking my bbt again and my opks. Then from 14th March il start my clearblue digi opks xx but who knows if ill actually ovulate on 20th...I could be completely wrong 😕

@Hopeful110 are you on clomid? Do you know why you have such a long cycle?

@Vil10 sorry about your grandma. Good news about your lady bits. My OH would prob combust tbf if I told him we couldn't have sex for 5 days lol.

@Meredithgrey1 just think when you get BFP you won't have periods for ages (THAT I cannot wait for!) and childbirth well that thankfully has lots of lovely drugs for and you forget the pain soon after anyway

@Crazydoglady123 heyy, not yet...I have pcos and it seems my cycle is 146 days, so been waiting since October to ovulate lol! Got my first gynae appt on 8th March so assume they will put me on clomid to regulate my cycles more

@vil10 glad to hear things look good huh. That must be a big relief! Weird on the advice on not having sex as much.. Does your DH have a low sperm count? If he does it's advised to do less regularly I think other than that i would say every other day would be fine... Hmmm! Sorry about your Nan as well, what a nightmare, I hope you get some answers soon 😭❤️

@Hopeful110 that must be sooo frustrating! Have you tried any myo-inositol? I've been on and off diagnosed with PCOS but my fertility consultant things I just have PCO and put me on Letrozole first (was a high dose one where I had to take 8 tablets on one day of my cycle) but after 3 cycles still had low PG so he put me on Clomid. I have a few girls on another thread and two of them have got their BFPs on first cycle

Sorry about your grandma @Vil10 but great news that your womb and ovaries are looking good.

Not sure I agree not having sex for 5 days but from what I've read short luteal phase on its own isn't a problem...(I think really they don't know!)

@Crazydoglady123 yeah I've been taking earths nature myo inositol; and vit c and D, daily but I do think it may have helped me ovulate in Oct. But dont know for sure. Its just a waiting game... frustrating though, but nothing i can do to make it any quicker at the moment x

@Hopeful110 oh hey your appointment will be on international women's day

@Juno231 ohhhh my gosh is it?? Haha let's hope it brings good luck!! Ohhh I think I found you! I hope so anyway otherwise I just followed another friend of minsters who's wondering who we all are 🤣

@Juno231 🤣 I think I've found you.
@Vil10 sperm builds up. So theoretically if you did it on the right day then there would be more correctly timed useful sperm there to fertilise, if you have abstained (5 days is max, I'd maybe try a bit less). If you dtd every day for example over 5 days, the earlier sperm is likely not realistically useful so only days 4 and 5 (assuming a pinpointed ovulation here though) would be any use to you. Therefore - one hit at the right time is a stronger hit.
There's an argument for that method (certainly if there's male factor issues). They do say 48 hours for proper sperm recovery/production too, so dtd every day is potentially damaging, and every other day is better. But a bloke with brilliant sperm- i wonder if any of applies or not. There's just no data really and so some people go with that theory and some the opposite. Likely you'll get a different answer from every dr! Also if your timing isn't good, doing it once - you could miss it altogether.
I've tried both ways. But mostly we probably do it too much. 🙄

@Hopeful110 ha well I just got a request so must've been you!

Oh I see @Minster2012's recent Instagram followers have used MN usernames in their profile name or username... nice idea 👍🏼 no more guessing haha.

@Vil10 that all sounds great 🙌 also I'm with your doctor on the less sex... I've tried so many months covering every day of the fertile window with nothing but BFN and the 2 chemicals I had we had sex during the fertile week with a day or 2 days gap between each. Definitely worth trying cutting it down incase it's low sperm count. It's hard when you're programmed to cover the days and you feel like you might be missing it though, I know!

@Vil10 that's really good on your scan but not so good on your gran though, sending big hugs on that for you lovely

@Hopeful110 that's crazy, so why is it you think OV is that day atm anyway? Like how do you know so far in advance?!

@Franklydear they were a lucky find but I guess if I don't ovulate it means nothing and the ICs stressed me out loads so least this way it's easy!

@Crazydoglady123 hey to the 🌻🌻🌻

@paintfairy I'm guessing you have experience in equine reproduction? This is something I keep wondering and talking about how often to DTD with humans around ovulation and achieving the best sperm always makes me think of it again. Some mares being covered too often sometimes build up a lot of uterine fluid I've always wondered if women would get that and if that would implicate fertilisation? 🤷🏽‍♀️ Sorry...weird stuff goes on in my head 😂

@Juno231 yay must have definitely been you then lol.

@Minster2012 I mean its a long story but basically I looked at the first day of my mc last June and counted down the days until I had my next AF visit which was 9th nov. So confirmed ovulation was on (25/26th oct) remember I had watery cm and loads of it for 3 days on those days and my temp shifted ALOT so defo ovulated. So it was 146 days from 16th June until 9th nov. Making it 132 days between first day of bleeding to ovulation. So I'm going on that, but I could be wrong and it could be longer in a normal cycle but thats all I have to go on haha

The month I got my BFP my ovulation was on the 28th and we did it 25th, 26th, 28th(ov day), 29th, 30th and 1st 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

@Crazydoglady123 🤣 not specifically no. I did have a foal once though (and also bought many, the latest being over a year ago, so he's almost 2). But it is logical. And yes you are right about the fluid. Not sure if that happens in people or not? But sometimes less is more, so to speak?

So basically 146 days from 9th nov (first day of my last AF) makes it 3rd April for my next AF visit..14 days prior is 20th march 🤞

Loving the Instagram idea, I must say. I always wanted to make one baby/ttc/parenting related. All my accounts are for quite specific topics (food, crafts, work etc) and didn't want viagra adds spamming all over! Also I get to post anonymous gross stuff 🤣

@Tornado2Inc ha got your request - love your insta name!!