TTC 15 months or longer. Bring your protein bars and all your supplements this way! Bus 3

[notyetamumbuttrying]

We're a mixed bunch of ladies ttc with all sorts of issues, mainly of the male factor kind! 😏 Though there's a range of reasons over here, come join if you've been in the ttc game for a long time and had nearly every test under the sun ☀️ and heading for interventions. There's ivf chat as well as natural. Buckling up for the ride of their lives are our usual riders: 😎

@Annny27 29, ttc #1 since June 2019, 1 miscarriage in nov 19 👼🏻
@RobinRose 27, ttc #1 since Oct 2019
@kerrym87 34, ttc #1 since sept 2019
@Motherofkittens28 39, #1 since aug 2019
@Yutes 34, #1 since Aug 2019
@Crazydoglady123 32, #2 since jan 2019
@Marvellouslymadmum 41, #3 since April 2019
@Tofu35 35, #1 since sept 2019
@Hayley19835 38, #1 since Oct 2018
@Narwhal88 32, #1 since June 2019
@Dogmum13 29, #1 since dec 2019
@SlothMamaToBe
@Theawkwardblonde
And me 34 (for a few more weeks) ttc #1 since sept 2019
(Sorry if I've missed anyone off the old bus, please jump bk on!)

@crazycatlady1981 I know, we're moving fast now and gaining more passengers. At least we're all around the same stage and won't get any fertile unicorns jumping on an announcing bfp's after one cycle 🙄 right @Juno231 😂 in fact, I'm thinking fertile unicorns might have to go in the new title!! 🦄

Yep none of us are fertile unicorns- more like infertile donkeys 😂😂😂😂

@Annny27 haha 😆 no donkey emoji so warthog it is 😂 🐗🐗🐗

I like the warthog as I can't shift my last bit of flab lately, struggling not to stick my nose in the trough! Think I'd be worried about announcing a bfp on here but to be fair, it doesn't hurt like others on here as we've all struggled. Bit holding my breath mind! I'm now 34, ttc #1 since sept 2019

@kerrym87 hear hear, I'm the heaviest I've ever been and kicking myself for it as I've had such a long time to basically be in the shape of my life by the time a pregnancy comes round. I'd hate to think I'd have been waiting for it for so long only to feel like I wouldn't want any pics to commemorate it because of feeling like a heffalump...

Infertile donkeys lol! On reddit they call one cycle bfps unicorns, that's where I got it from. They also call the fertile ladies "fertiles" with much bitterness and venom and it makes me laugh. I wouldn't begrudge anyone on here a BFP though, it would only serve to bring me hope!

@kerrym87 bfps on here are the light in the darkness! It's so nice to see :D gives me hope anyway

Yep 🐗🐗🐗🐗

@kerrym87 I have a stone and half left to shift to be in a healthy weight range 😬 managed half a stone the past few months so it's coming off but ever so slowly! Wfh is not helping maters at all!
You defo shouldn't be worried about announcing a bfp on here, it's what we want to see, but from ppl who have taken longer than one cycle to get it 😂 it's nice that we're all in the same boat and have gone through hellish cycles month after month. So to finally get a bfp will be lovely to see! I'm rooting for all you ladies! 👏🏾
@Juno231 exactly that, it would bring hope and it does for me when I see it! I love it 🥰
@Annny27 we love a bit of hope! It goes so frequently when you've been beaten with the infertility stick for so long, so it's very much needed I agree! X

@notyetamumbuttrying well done! I have half a stone to be in the healthy range too. I've never been able to lose more than 1lb a week though so even just that would take another two months... So painfully slow!

Hi everyone, sorry been quiet, so busy on this chat that find it hard to keep up. Hope every body ok? I’m back onto another cycle as AF showed early. So gutted, it gets harder and harder every time. I build my hopes and think, maybe this time is the one but then such a kick when it doesn’t happen. Got my blood test at GP tomorrow. Going to keep trying the ferti-lily and temping and trying to get DP to take his vits (he’s not taken them all week!! ☹️) 🙏🤞 for everyone.

@notyetamumbuttrying well done on weight loss - how did you do it? I’ve got about 2 stone to lose and completely lacking in motivation. I feel like everything I eat I put on weight now!

@Annny27 @notyetamumbuttrying yay, I love donkeys!! 😍 I’d happily be an infertile donkey! 🤣
Would definitely welcome BFPs from any of the ladies on our bus! Gotta keep that hope going! 🤞🏻💕

@Motherofkittens28 sending lots of love today! Hope you are ok! 💕

@notyetamumbuttrying it's as plastic tasting as Sunny D but nowhere near as much sugar loaded (thankfully) 😂

@Narwhal88 I just told him and he seems happy about that so thank you!

@Annny27 omg that's the best...infertile donkeys 🤣🤣🤣 @notyetamumbuttrying deffo got to be in the new thread title like "No fertile unicorns, just infertile donkeys" 😂😂😂😭

So everything's moving fast with the IVF...have our planning appointment now this afternoon and hopefully screening tomorrow 🤞

@Juno231 I have a stone and a half though so a lot more than you cos I'm a fatty 😆 you can do it girlie!!
@SlothMamaToBe sorry AF showed! I think cutting out booze has helped as I've not done much exercise and still eating crisps, chocolate, bread etc. Occasionally I'll have a lighter dinner, like fruit as I think I overload on carbs most nights as it's always pasta or rice usually.
@crazycatlady1981 all about the hope!!
@Crazydoglady123 ha yes, thankfully eh! And that's exactly what I was thinking for the title 😆 ooh that is fast, so exciting mate!!

Hey ladies, just back from the doctors, I had a chemical pregnancy, my levels are dropping back down to normal ranges but she'll know for certain tomorrow after my second bloods 😭 not looking good

I'm 28 ttc #1, 4 years NTNP, 22 months ttc
Still ongoing investigations with my gynaecologist but haven't heard back from my consultant in 6 months so going to a private clinic in a few months now when we gather enough money for it 😭
Feeling very down today, don't even know what day I am at in my cycle as she doesn't believe that 2 day bleed was a period, she said i have to wait to my next actual period which could be a painful one and start again then, be no harm to take a break this cycle it's really consuming me at the moment
She said I should ring my consultant today and ask to be put on clomid 🤔

@notyetamumbuttrying 😂😂 to the fertile unicorns and infertile warthogs! I definitely have weight to get rid of 😕 my ttc stats for the new bus - 41 (just) ttc no 3 for me 1st with oh since April 2018 😫

@SlothMamaToBe good luck with the go tomorrow, my oh is a nightmare for remembering his vits too!

@Crazydoglady123 im so excited for you, good luck for this afternoon 😁

On a side note I think I need to slow down my adding new things for ttc each month! I'm tracking bbt and opk, trying to eat healthily, added protein, exercise (that's not going great 🤦🏼‍♀️) cut out caffeine, not been drinking anyway, don't smoke and now taking 5000 supplements a day - I think I need help! 😂 taken a pic of my daily supps and am also having to gulp down 6 x 500mg antibiotics a day and 6 steroid tablets and yes I do rattle wherever I go

@Marvellouslymadmum oh my god I'm the exact same, I've about 20 supplements a day 😂 now eating Brazilian nuts and pineapple like it's going out of fashion,
We started preseed & fertilily cup last month, I duno what else to do,

What do you all normally do each cycle to try aid ttc? Be nice to hear if there's anything else we could try?

@Aimzie omg I forgot the nuts pineapple and Pom juice 😂 I also have conception gel (Tesco version of preseed) and fertility-lily 🤦🏼‍♀️ I don't think there's anything else left to try lol

@Marvellouslymadmum hahah 5000 supplements sounds about right! I think I can spot ubiquinol, pregnacare and... maca root in there? I've taken 8 pills today so I'm not yet at your level but give me time!

@Aimzie I'm so sorry to hear about your CP :( Must be devastating - is it your first or are you having recurrent losses?

@notyetamumbuttrying oops I misread! Tbf I've got half a stone to creep back under the overweight BMI category but for me to be healthy I'd need another stone off after that.

@Juno231 no I've never ever got a even a faint positive in the last 4 years 😭 really had my hopes up this month, I don't even know how your supposed to feel about it

@Juno231 ding ding ding yes correct on all three counts - maca root has been added from today lol

AF arrived today, no cramps or massive mood swings to help me predict she was on her way. Like the worst surprise guest at a party. Unannounced and won't leave for a few days.

Do we have to send away for infertility warthog membership cards and t-shirts, or are they just automatically being sent out? 😂

@Aimzie so sorry hun! What have the clinics told you about what's happening with your fertility?
@Marvellouslymadmum 🦄 🐗
Wow that's a lot of drugs you're carrying there!!
@Juno231 losing weight is the pits! I did it for my wedding in 2019 (and times before) but I just went wild on honeymoon and have continued in the same vane until jan 2020 😂
@Tofu35 booooo sorry hun!
Automatically sent out when you join the bus 😉 check the post next week 😜

@notyetamumbuttrying hold on, I'll get some change out my purse for the bus fare!
35, TTC#1 since Sept 2019

I was only referred to the hospital a year ago, and 6 months ago they did an internal and external scan, just said I still have pcos, but I never got a phone call back i was supposed to get my progesterone checked in the doctors and they cancelled it and said they were only taking covid patients atm.
So after today my doctor just said to ring the consultant back up and get my follow up appointment that I was supposed to get 6 months ago and ask them to put me on clomid 🤔 so I'm still really still in limbo, I've had no other tests done yet so I'm just thinking of going private, it's just taking way to long public 😕

@Tofu35 🤣🤣🤣 we only take card payments now, sorry 😜

@Aimzie what shit service, so sorry! Defo go private if you can afford it! I had my afc scan with care London and they were fab!