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 🤞🏻🤩

@Vil10 yay for no problems with your lady bits but awful news about your gran,hope she is ok 💐

@DJmum83 also awful news about your Aunty, hope she will be ok after surgery! Didn't realise you are in Scotland also... that makes at least two of us 😊

@Minster2012 I'm a big believer in signs.... chase that rainbow my lovely 🌈 🌈🌈 bets on a 4 day bus anyone?

@Clairey844 never thought I would be a fan, as a kid I thought it was as boring as snooker but a fully signed up darts lover now 🎯🎯🎯 I mean who doesn't love a sport that you don't have to be in particularly good shape to play, spectators all have a pint and the equality of men playing women puts it streets ahead!

Can anyone tell that I can't sleep 🙈 combination of low blood sugar (post 🍆, I'm way too embarrassed to ask dr how to avoid this since it's kind of always spontaneous and it kinda kills the mood a bit to say hang on I'm just grabbing a snack give me 5 mins! In 5 mins oh would have fallen asleep 😂) and sheer panic/anxiety! I really need to stay off the pregnancy boards, see threads about mmc and with my scan getting closer terror is setting in. Any suggestions on how to just switch my brain off? Because sleep would be excellent about now 🙄

@gem176 I wish I'd known you were awake lol I was up at that time too!! Had a terrifying dream I had a csection with no stitches.... Weird. When's your next scan lovely? Xx

Morning lovelies
Yes @Gem176 I think a 4 day bus! On the sex and nibbles surely this is a very good sign that your bubs is growing nicely?! And I think it was actually a double 🌈🌈from the first pic I took without X in!! 😆 any advice from other preg ladies? What about having a packet of energy sweets around for those times like dextro energy??? So it's not 5 mins?? & a nice sweet hit for him if kissing too??

Let's allll show the love n support for @HollieL567 for early scan day after losses 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻♥️🌈♥️🌈♥️☺️

@DJmum83 love a Scottish contingent & your family look so beautiful

@Franklydear no wonder DS loves space, I'm going for Artemis as next DS name

@Kally9 err 7dpo is just for fun it's just to get it out of your system right @larrythelizard @Tornado2Inc 😄😝

@Dollybird89 im a bit gutted I missed mcfly tbh & save hedgehog for rainy days. Btw you've been quiet you said your were worried after work dried up on the contracting fir OH & the big contract didn't come through, how are you/him?

@Kirky658 the dreams are so vivid, sometimes it's quite nice but then others like yours are awful! First scan on Tuesday, thanks to none of the private clinics within 200 miles being open I've had to wait until now and the fear has just built and built! And I don't know if the anxiety is like a sixth sense about it or if it's just, you know, anxiety 🙈 xx

@HollieL567 good luck for your scan lovely! 🌈😘

@blackcurrantqueen haha ohh gosh I dont think I've worked @Juno231 out then 🤭🤣 haha!!

@Minster2012 double rainbow you say, even better 🌈🌈😊 Don't really know how to word this but modern medicine is actually amazing, seeing your insta story and seeing your gorgeous wee boy I'm actually in awe of what it can do and just know it will come through for you again and all the other ladies on here going down the iui and ivf route 🥰
Im trying (failing miserably last night) to be positive and I'd like to think so but it could also be from trying to maintain such tight blood glucose control that any physical activity is enough to drop me from that ideal level down to oh shit level but do you know what, can only take each day as it comes and deal with facts rather than what ifs.
P.s Artemis is a fab name, think if I get as far as naming a baby, my choices will be quite limited as oh has neither parent living so a boy would be after his dad and a girl after his mum. Thankfully both are names I quite like.

@Gem176 @Kirky658 I was also awake at that time 🤣 then again at 5am and woke OH up for sex 😂 I had such an awful dream last night pretty sure it was one of those where your OH cheats on you but by the time I'm awake I forget 🙈 the night before last was a horrendous one and I woke up struggling to breath and woke OH up then was finally going back to sleep and slipped straight back into the dream but managed to wake myself up.. that happened twice ! 🥱😴

@lucyrp @Kirky658 I've had a few where oh has done something bad but details are sketchy when I wake up so he's either cheated or left me and I have to remind myself not to be mad at him for it because it was only a dream even though I'm feeling ALL the emotions 🙈😂 my brothers girlfriend from years ago stopped talking to him one day because in the middle of the night he sat up in bed, told her she was hard work then went back to sleep 😂😂😂 he doesn't remember this at all but as a child he was so bad for talking in his sleep!

@Gem176 @Kirky658 yeah I've had a few of those. I think my imagination runs away with me or if we've been watching some on the tv before bed it influences what my dreams are about😂 I normally wake him up now and I'm like how rude you've just cheated on me in my dream and I make him cuddle me then so I can't be mad when we wake up 🤣 omg that's hilarious! I talk in my sleep sometimes but most of the time it's jibberish and OH likes to record it and show me in the morning 😳

@Gem176 @Kirky658 yeah I've had a few of those. I think my imagination runs away with me or if we've been watching some on the tv before bed it influences what my dreams are about😂 I normally wake him up now and I'm like how rude you've just cheated on me in my dream and I make him cuddle me then so I can't be mad when we wake up 🤣 omg that's hilarious! I talk in my sleep sometimes but most of the time it's jibberish and OH likes to record it and show me in the morning 😳

@bez91 Thankyou!! Yeah me either, strange!!x

@Minster2012 the dr basically said abstain from sex for 5 days and then have sex close to ovulation because if you're having it a lot it lowers the sperm, so I was a bit like hmm, very confusing

@larrythelizard nooo the witch!!

@blackcurrantqueen Thankyou lovely x

@Gem176 Thankyou!! You could always have a little bag of snacks at the side of the bed so you can quickly have something before DTD??

@lucyrp my DH would be delighted if I woke him for sex - he is under strict instructions never to wake me up 😅
I have an appt with my consultant at fertility clinic on Monday at 3pm, hoping he will green light my next transfer in March. Maybe he will have some ideas of what I can do to increase chances too.
I also have an appt with fertility acupuncture, and have ordered a shit load of supplements 😂

@gem176 @lucyrp these dreams are freeeeeeaky ladies. Last night's was so vivid then the dog barked to go for a wee at 2:30am, whyyyyyy! Also so jealous of your sex drives, mine is none existent xx

@Gensola I'd be lucky if mine ever woke me up🤣🤣

@Kirky658 @Gem176 don't worry this was probably the once a week bonk! The last time we did it was Saturday 😂

@lucyrp hehe that does make me feel better we are about once a week now our last was Sunday - valentines day. We tend to go for the weekends as we are both a bit more chilled and I'm too knackered in the week x

I'm still here @Minster2012. Didn't get to check in yesterday. I'm not on insta or any social media, been thinking maybe I should set up an insta just for ttc.

@Gensola, I'm sorrt about your bfn. I hope you'll be able to get to the next round of ivf soon.

So I decided to do the clearblue advanced ovulation tests this cycle coz IUI won't be happening for a while-have to get my tubes checked first. Today is cycle day 8 and I got a static smiley this morning after a blank circle yesterday. Wtf?! 😭 I have no other signs of ovulation so I'm wondering what is going on (other than my body being a fuck boy!). Did anybody else get this and get another peak later on?! I am so confused now.

@Kirky658 I try to do it on my terms more now because then I get to do a comfortable position e.g I was on top this morning. Doggy style is an absolutely big no at the moment but it's OH favourite and I'm just like nope soz not happening 😂🤣

@gem176 @Clairey844 ahhha darts, I can’t say I’m an avid darts fan but we watched the event that’s on over Christmas/New Year on Sky Sports at the Ally Pally a few years ago and have watched the same competition since. Me and DH just plan a session to get drunk along with the crowd once DDs in bed and shout and sing at the TV. Wasn't the same this year!

@HollieL567 all the best for your scan today :)

I’m on a complete irrational downer today which is not me at all. We finished our house extension late last year so we’ve been working on it and decorating etc since. They last room is what would be any potential baby’s room which we have deliberately left just a bare plastered room. Now has come the point we’ve got to do something with it as we have chosen a carpet for the office and if we do them both in the same carpet it’ll up saving is about £400 in waste so DH just said yes to the carpet guy. Weekend plans and for next couple of weeks, need to get a wiggle on and get it all prepped, mist coated and colours chosen and I feel really deflated about it, what the efff is wrong with me!

@MartyMcShy that's interesting you've got a static on cd8, I didn't use them the month I fell however I did get ewcm and bad ovulation pains on cd14 so was expecting my dates to be pretty textbook bang on yet at my dating scan I was moved a whole week forward...we'd also done the deed on cd8,10 and 11 so wish I had been using the sticks to see if I did possibly ovulate earlier and the ewcm and pains actually came after ovulation. No way of knowing but when you said about getting a static early it did make me wonder.
No harm in 🍆 for breakfast lunch and dinner today just incase 😜

@bez91 it's totally the atmosphere that I love about darts, I have no time for most sports like football etc but for some reason darts just hits the spot for me 😂

@HollieL567 good luck today! 😊

I only got on and off sleep, the dog decided to join us. He isn't allowed upstairs but he's got an ear infection/allergies playing up, and when he's ill he wants to be with us. So I just let him. He walked me up though every time he moves because the floor is laminate. Frigging nightmare animal. Costs me a fortune. 🙈

@lucyrp I must admit I do that to oh as he talks complete nonsense in his sleep.... Nearly got him in trouble when we first got together as he kept on saying these two girls names and about going to meet them.... wasn't impressed so next day I was like eh who's xxxxx and xxxxx and he looked really confused and was like where did those names come from so I explained and he was like "fml I don't even get away from work in my dreams" a lot of boats are named after women and this was the name of the boat he'd been tracking to check it was going to get to his site on time 😂😂😂 bless him he even showed me the online tracker thing in case I didn't believe him! It's now our in joke about his hot and steamy threesome with xxxx and xxxxx 😂
Funny we were talking about doggy the other night and I said we hadn't done it that way for ages and he was just like need to save it for when you are huge and I was just like you'll be lucky 🙈

@Kirky658 I'd cry if the dog woke me at that time, also we aren't actually sure if he can bark seeing as he's never done it!! Twat cat on the other hand loves parading and meowing through the night for NO REASON! He has food, water and an open window but just likes to be a twat 🙄
I've always had quite a high sex drive, think the hormones make it worse 😂 oh likes to complain that I'm always horny so just tell him there is no pleasing men because he'd be annoyed if I didn't want to have sex 🙃 definitely not getting any tonight though, late night and a pre alarm quickie this morning means he'll be sound asleep on the couch by 7pm 🙄

@Vil10 think I'll just have to stick a bag of sweeties beside the bed and resist the urge to devour them for no reason 🙈

@bez91 absolutely, it really wasn't the same this year! Sorry you are feeling down. Could you pick completely neutral colours and then add cute bits when you need it as a nursery. Plain walls for now but a border and pics when it's time to be a nursery? DDs walls were magnolia until last year (now pink 😂) and I just had canvasses and curtains from mamas and papas when she was tiny then I changed them as she got older and was into different things.

Thanks @Clairey844! I can't believe I got the static smiley so soon, never happened before. I wasn't expecting to see it grinning back at me! I couldn't get back to sleep! My DH is working a long shift today which isn't ideal but we got the conceive plus lube so will try that out tonight. He's supposed to work all weekend too, ah such rubbish timing!!

That sounds tough @bez91. I always think it's the having plans that leads to disappointment. Like I always thought we'd have another baby by now...if not 2! I told DH we should put away our DD's buggy now coz she won't really get into it anymore and it made me so sad. I thought we'd have another smallie in it now. But I know we are very lucky with our DD so I try and concentrate on that...some days are better than others! I hope you'll be ok.

Good luck today @HollieL567!

@Kirky658, I had zero sex drive when I was pregnant. Zero. I hoped I'd be one of those women whose sex drives went through the roof but it went the opposite way. My poor DH.

OMG ladies those dreams are hilarious!! I've also accused DH of cheating on me in my dreams and got in a right grump for the full day after! @lucyrp your OH films you?? That reminds me of MAFS a few days ago, deano & the other one where he recorded her phone call???

@MartyMcShy hey!!! And yes make a ttc insta account a few of the ladies here have & then followed me with names similar to their MN name & posted like @Tornado2Inc it's you who has put your POAS & knitting isn't it? So it's pretty amusing actually, I've just raised my CB low fertility stick so your fuck boy high fertility one could have joined the party but just get on that dick girl then we'll try fathom it!

@Gensola I'm the same, my DH would get a kick to the nuts if he woke me for sex! And it's good you've got your appointment quickly, they may say you have to have a cycle in between but let's hope not 🤞🏻

@Vil10 hmmm though it kind of links to what IVF clinic say for when DH does his bit, @Gensola when your OH did his sperm for fertilisation when did he have to unload before then go in for his pot? I'm sure fir ours it was no sex for a week then 3 days before he had to unload or something similar for optimum Sperm?

@bez91 yeah that's really annoying I agree, but a carpet is just a base, we have the same carpet all through the top of our house so can you leave it at that?? Sending big hugs xxx

@gem176 your DH is lucky man! Mine is none existent like yours was by the sound of it @martymcshy. We did it doggy on valentine's and to be fair it was pretty amazing but I could take it or leave it right now tbh 😂

@holliel567 I have everything crossed for you today I am sure it will all be amazing news ❤️❤️❤️🤞🤞😘😘

@Minster2012 yep, I'm the knitting/peeing lady 😂