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 🤞🏻🤩

@franklydear @lucyrp OK jealous of your boobs rn ladies. I'm an itty bitty 34B. But they're bigger now for sure, god knows what size, DH is going to measure me up at the weekend I think he's secretly excited haha

Those keeping note of how long you've been TTC (that's everyone surely?) do you all think of it as months? I think of it in cycles... but maybe it's because my cycles can be as short as 24 days so it's less than a month.

I'm on cycle 14 👎🏻 anyone else want to moan about how long it's been? 😂

@2020mission cycle 18 months 15, 1 miscarriage in the middle just over the year mark, I am 43, so not all the time in the world for the it will eventually happen

@minster2012 yeah the work situation is crap tbh. He's only done 2/3 days this month! Got enough for March rent n bills but after that f knows. Still waiting on the new contract to go on books. And no idea if theres any work before that. OH is suffering really bad. Low moods and no 🍆 at all. I'm hopeful but he always expects the worst to happen.
Then my dad calls and starts quizzing me when I'm gonna give him grandkids ?!?! He knows it's been hard ttc and that's last thing I'm trying to think of atm an OH blurted out 'when we can afford it' . I had to get out .. took the dog for a walk and balled my eyes out. What if by some miracle I got a bfp this month? Wtf would I do??? I still get like 60 a week for being a carer but been applying for allsorts of jobs (only have retail and care experience) really want something in laboratory work but anything wud do for now.. arrggghhhh

@Gem176 haha your DH and lady boats - fantastic 😂

I'm in the high sex drive club, DH not so much 🙈 I've found my hormones have also shot through the roof since coming off the pill a year ago, anyone else? The pill really seemed to really suppress my hormones and I feel so much better off it so I'm now even worse on the sex pest front.

@Gem176 @MartyMcShy @Minster2012 @InkyPaper @Franklydear @larrythelizard thanks ladies on the spare room front, you're all lovely ❤️ I've given my head a wobble and I'm back on it 😆

@2020mission good question... I've thought that myself at medical appointments, you've got a point if you have short cycles. I say months as I have been pregnant just had 2 losses so in cycles is a lot less time.

@Gem176 haha your DH and lady boats - fantastic 😂

I'm in the high sex drive club, DH not so much 🙈 I've found my hormones have also shot through the roof since coming off the pill a year ago, anyone else? The pill really seemed to really suppress my hormones and I feel so much better off it so I'm now even worse on the sex pest front.

@Gem176 @MartyMcShy @Minster2012 @InkyPaper @Franklydear @larrythelizard thanks ladies on the spare room front, you're all lovely ❤️ I've given my head a wobble and I'm back on it 😆

@2020mission good question... I've thought that myself at medical appointments, think it depends on your circs, you've got a point if you have short cycles. I say months as I have been pregnant just had 2 losses so in cycles is a lot less time.

@Gem176 hahaha I think I'd struggle with that myself, if there's a bag of sweets or chocolates I have to eat them all!

@Minster2012 hmm it does make sense doesn't it!! Maybe I look into it for next cycle!

@2020mission I usually say both because I took tablets to delay my period in august for a holiday so I got a late period meaning late ovulation which fell in the first week of September not in august, so I'm month 10 but cycle 9!

@2020mission, I'm starting to think of it in years now 😂 been trying for pretty much 2 years!

That's interesting about the month you got your bfp @missgoldilocks you started dtd earlier. Just shows how much ovulation can change every month...just to add to the mystery of ttc!!

@lucyrp, I really rate Freya bras. They're expensive but really good. I had massive boobs when pregnant and struggled to find maternity bras but got good ones from Debenhams too. I'm not sure if you can still buy from them online in the UK?

Arggh sorry double post, this app is on its backside today

@Kirky658 don't be jealous! I hate having massive boobs. Have some of mine if you want. Il happily share them out 😂

@MartyMcShy I actually think I had some from Debenhams last time but I had smaller boobs before pregnancy last time so my actual boobs now are probbalt bigger than my pregnancy bras were then 😭🤣

@Dollybird89 you seem like you have a lot on your plate at the minute, sorry! But going for a walk or taking the dog out really helps me to de stress so hopefully it'll be the same for you! And there's nothing worse than people asking when you're having children let alone family!! My OH's best friend, the one who we're breeding our dogs with, my OH is godfather to his 2 girls so we spend a lot of time with them, and we were messaging about the dogs the other day and he put "never mind dogs, when are you two have a baby, you're not getting any younger" I'm not even 24 yet!! Yes OH is 31 in June but that's still not old for a man TTC, and I tried diverting the convo but then he came round to drop our dog off the other night and mentioned it again, my OH just diverted it by saying oh we need to go mate teas ready, it's infuriating!!

@Missgoldilocks I think I probably wasted some of the early months trusting apps ovulation and fertile window info. When I started tracking BBT I've seen I tend to ovulate CD 11. Definitely best to make a start as early as possible each month. We try to start DTD every second day as soon as AF is gone now. Did you go every day the month you caught?

Was it on here we was talking about warm food? My acupuncture just told me no cold food for the rest of this cycle, only warm/hot meals. I bloody love natural yoghurt too 😭 but I'm up for trying annnnnyyyyything!

@Missgoldilocks never trust the app guessing, the month we caught, we dtd only at the beginning of fw, and a couple of days after, I try DTD whenever excm is there and whenever you fancy, I know for statistics that my ovulation has to be around day 10-13 so try to cover around that, this month we've done cd 7,8,10 and 12, that's today, planning to do tomorrow night and then whenever and fingers crossed
@Dollybird89 try not to stress about it, if you get a bfp this month you have 9 months to plan, it's hard for guys when they think they are not providing enough, mine is all for equality and there's been times when I had a better job and bigger pay, but if he feels he's not earning enough, he puts a lot of pressure on himself, on the any job front, have you looked at home based jobs, like transcript audio or spellchecking, or stuff like that, just an idea

I'm with you @lucyrp, I'd gladly give away some of my boobs. I'm a 30f now and short so always think I look top heavy. I did boob or bust last year and had been wearing the wrong size completely.

@Vil10, that's very annoying to hear from your OH's friends. Ye are so young! I cannot understand how so many people think it's ok to ask/comment etc on anyone else having kids. It's so personal. And so many people struggle which we're hearing about more and more these days. You'd think people would have more awareness.

That's interesting @crazydoglady123! Did she say why?

For big boob girls I'd recommend panache! Pricey but they often have big sales on brandalley

Oh and @Kirky658 try www.abrathatfits.org/calculator.php once OH takes the measurements - most women wear the wrong size apparently!

@Missgoldilocks ah I've got some more time to go then! We start DTD CD10/11 onwards but sometimes I worry we stop too soon.

@2020mission I definitely think in cycles as everyone's is different. One of my ex colleagues who has a 2 year old asked me how long I've been trying and when I mentioned cycles she said "what's that" and "do you mean months?"

@MartyMcShy not 100% sure. I'm quite a cold person normally so I'm not sure if it's to do with my body having to do a lot of work keeping warm so maybe hot food reduces my body's work load so to speak? I wish I'd asked now 🤦🏽‍♀️

@Juno231 oooh I want to watch them all!

@2020mission I've lost count of cycles as they're irregular but I believe I'm on month 18 now 😭

@juno231 oooo thanks very handy!
@lucyrp haha I'd have some any day DH is loving the bigger boobs not that I'll let him near them mind they're too sodding sore

@MartyMcShy I was last measured about 2 years ago in Victoria's Secret but no idea since.

@Kirky658 mine were so sore to start with. Now they're just sensitive, OH had them in his mouth this morning and it was quite enjoyable and not painful so 🤪

Sorry ladies just a pop on from me to say I'm in middle of work stuff so need to take a few hours to focus on that today

Oh and the builder of our house (who is also a farmer of v posh cattle) has phoned about our proposed shed & had a lovely chat with him (he's kind of a mate too) where his wife has spotted my online IVF admission & so he was like "I've just been artificially impregnating cattle this week & I tell you it's awful pumping em full of artificial hormones so I don't envy you or DH"

Errrrrrrrrrrrr yeah well we might do it or surrogacy again so you wanna build our shed cheaper than the other guy???? So he might come round to quote us

It's allllll fun and games here in the countryside ladies
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Rant alert!!!!!
Very hard job to find slippers for ds, bought them in Asda collection and when we got home and open the package they gave the baby size not junior so tiny! Fucking return policy, store only or pay postage, fuck off, Asda!

Hey ladies! I did manage to find you in the end but my app has been playing up no end and when I finally got on I tried to catch up but half way through I ended up falling to sleep lol 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Thankyou all for the well wishes!! and @Minster2012 that made me well up!!
I've already cried to my team leader today 😭 I just find them so overwhelming after everything that I am so so scared I feel really sick but I think it's a mixture of everything and when I'm in that waiting room in pretty sure I will actually shit myself lol. 🤭
I'm meant to be 7 wks today and I know I can't change the outcome but I'm terrified non the less. It just always gets me how in an instant things can be great or so so bad. 🥺 Keeping everything crossed.
Il try and catch up properly tonight and il keep you all up dated as soon as I can Love you all 😘😘 xxxx

It's at 3.30 I forgot to say! Xx