Bus 35- where womb spring cleaning is not allowed & TTC recycling is aired on the street

[Minster2012]

No mean girls reports to MN last time ladies 😆🙌🏻I don’t know whether that’s a result or not, but seeing as it was the Spring Zen bus I think that was good 🦋🌸🌷🌻

So it’s back to the usual routine & realising men know NOTHING about ovulation, but then again, do our bodies?? Except for the science teachers that is 😉

We are still working on our spring challenges alongside trying to get pregnant and we’ve had great results so far.

Our bus is helping each other get fitter, more positive through sharing small changes we are making in our lives and trying to inspire & support each other with these too...as well as of course being there for each other during the sad times.

Have a look at the small changes beside the names and see if you want to try them yourself or add in your own!

Last month we had some fab BFPs including an OG 🥰♥️🙌🏻💪🏻so bring on March for more of the same please as well as investigations IVF fun for some others...
Spring is coming, and so are we 😘🦄🍀🌸🌷🌻🌼

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
8 BFPs for February

Let’s go go go for March!

Guess who's the fucker that's at work 😠

@notyetamumbuttrying Yeah I don’t know if the covid vaccine is the cause or just stupid post MC cycles but it does correlate and it’ll be interested to see if the next cycle is shorter without my covid vaccine. I’m still glad I’ve had the vaccine, I don’t think there is an actual link between the 2 but I know I’ve always been sensitive to stress & illness upsetting my cycles.

@paintfairy yeah it’s definitely not ideal when ttc but I’m kinda hoping it is the vaccine that’s causing the long cycles because at least that will hopefully be resolved sooner. If its long cycles because my hormones are still out of whack then I foresee a longer battle. Sounds like quite the day yesterday – hope your anxiety is feeling better today.

@Hopeful110 I hope it is ovulation for you – the signs you had yesterday seemed like good ones. Hope your scan goes well today.

@minster2012 – you don’t need to delay TTC after the 2nd vaccine. They changed the advice as there’s no logical reason why it should cause any issues due to the type of vaccine it is. They say to avoid the vaccine if you’re in the tww if possible (in case you are pregnant) because a high temp (which is a side effect) can increase risk of miscarriage but otherwise there’s no need to delay. @larrythelizard shared an Instagram post about it today from a Gynae Dr 

@blackcurrantqueen Yeah @inkypaper is right, there’s a few of us on the roof or sitting right at the back on the bus right now. We can’t pour from an empty cup, so don’t worry if your cup runs a bit dry right now, take some time and when you have more to give you will. The same goes for everyone! Hope you’re okay xx

@minster2012 its lovely & sunny here in south wales today which makes the 1st day back in work that little bit easier to manage 

@juno231 ohhh hun I’m sorry you’re feeling so low about ttc right now. It’s so hard (especially when friends get knocked up so bloody easily!!!) There’s not a lot to say when you’re’ feeling so flat but know we’re here for you always. X

@haiyaa Yes I love the Hummingbird cookbooks… and look at your making the hot cross buns. That’s something I’ve never tried. I always think dough & breads are really hard but I’ve actually never tried. I have always been confident if I was to ever go on bake off, I would 100% get sent home on bread week (or pastry week actually because I can’t seem to get pastry right either no matter how much I try) haha . Oh that it interesting about your covid/vaccine experience with cycles too. It would be interesting to see how your cycles settle. When you say they were long cycles, how much longer were they to usual?
Mine are usually 32-36days long and my last cycle was 45days with ovulation roughly around CD 36 (short LP too annoyingly) and im currently on CD 25 so looks to be similar.

@notyetamumbuttrying I did Thankyou! Went for a walk with my friends Saturday then me and OH had drinks at home and I was so rough yesterday, got a Chinese for tea but I feel so tired and groggy today, not good when all the children are back too😂 how're you??

Hope everyone else is okay❤️

@notyetamumbuttrying thanks lovely ❤️

@Juno231 I was actually able to get through this morning, and by some miracle they were able to offer me an appointment next Monday morning, so only a week to wait, I suppose. Glad your neighbours were quick off the mark in sending back their signed agreement

@Crazydoglady123 ❤️

@bez91 thanks ❤️ I (by some miracle) managed to get an appointment for next Monday morning

@blackcurrantqueen not gonna lie, had a cry this morning. I really thought I was this time and I just feel broken and useless. I did get through to the GP though, so that's something at least ❤️

@paintfairy I know right?! Bloody AF. And to add insult to injury I've got terrible cramps too 😩 sucks being a woman

@Haiyaa those hot cross buns look amazing!

Morning everyone

I'm so sorry I have not been contributing but I am feeling terrible. I don't want to moan as I feel guilty I should be over the moon I'm pregnant but I have never been this ill in any of my pregnancies. The nausea is all day I have to force myself to eat. I have her for number 2 in nearly a week doctors are phoning today.
I'm just fed up of feeling so sick and yuck.
Really sorry for moaning.
I have my scan on Sunday I'm excited about that but dreading the journey.

Hope everybody is doing ok and as soon as I'm better I will catch up properly xx

Sorry xxx

@DJmum83 🤣 Yes, how dare you moan! That must be rubbish. I can't imagine feeling so sick you can't eat anything. I hope it doesn't last too long! Definitely not much fun at all.
@InkyPaper awww I think having a cry is good sometimes. But yes bloody bodies! Coming back as a man.
@Sausage1990 yeah it's better if it's vaccine related than just your cycle. Honestly. Why can't things just do as they should? Fingers crossed.
@Haiyaa mum hummingbird. Never made anything but I've been to the bakery!
@Franklydear nooooo 😡

Has anyone watched mafs season 5? I've started watching that as its on e4. It's the one before the one we just all watched. I've never seen any of the others. DH never saw the weddings or early stuff (I started forcing him to watch later) and I've had him watch these. So cringy some of it!

@DJmum83 you poor thing, that sounds awful! Fingers crossed the doctors can do something to help you ♥️

@paintfairy no I recently binged season 6 and now watching Love Island Australia!

I've just remembered that the spiritual reading she said someone had crocheted me a baby blanket. Just spoke to OH mum and she's made this 😱

@Sausage1990 yeah I'm similar with stress and illness having an effect on cycle length. Where are you in your cycle now?
@Vil10 sounds fun though! Are you a teacher? I'm ok thanks 😊
@InkyPaper yay to the appointment next week that's great!
@DJmum83 ah sorry about the sickness sounds rough and great you've got a scan soon! Don't worry about sharing how you're feeling. There's no need to apologise for it. I hope it passes soon!
@paintfairy I caught a glimpse of it the other day and saw the wedding of the buxom blonde lady who had her son there and was quite loud and in your face. Her new husband did not seem one bit impressed 😂
@Crazydoglady123 omg how spooky!! There was no way she could have known what you were told?!

@paintfairy could there be birds on top of your chimney maybe? Dropping bits down it perhaps.
@haiyaa thanks beaut I am so looking forward to being able to see people again. Hoping that in September I can have a relatively normal birth!
@djmum83 so sorry to hear you're feeling so rubbish lovely. Hopefully the docs can give you something to help you go! If you feel up to it, I have found that a brisk walk held to, ahem, shift it for me along with a large glass of OJ! Xx

Hi you wonderful bunch how are you all?
My foots 90% better with the support etc so I'm attempting a hiit later.. gonna be crawling to bed tonight lol!

Cd119 now.. getting to be a joke.. did both an lh test and hcg... and only got control lines on both! Whoever at Drs said my hormone levels were fine are deffo wrong!! Roll on may.. hopefully I might get some answers by then.

Did I miss any bfps? I've been binge watching desperate housewives up on the top deck and starting the process of live streaming my gaming to get a bit £££ but a long way off yet lol.

@DJmum83 ohh hun that's really rubbish. I had 24/7 nausea too and it really was a struggle. I personally found pretty much constant grazing on the most plain things the only way to keep the nausea at bay. Rich tea biscuits, tuc crackers and cold grapes was the way for me. I hope you feel better soon lovely 💕

@notyetamumbuttrying well. I'm currently on cd25 but I've not had a peak on my opk yet, I use femometer so I've had highs like 20-35% but that's not much. I have noticed a small amount of ewcm today but forgot to bring an opk test to work & I can't hold that long to wait until after work... So I'll do one later but we'll see. Im not optimistic tbh. X

Oh lush @Haiyaa I love a hot cross bun! BFN expected a week on sat/sun ish - I have no hope of it happening with luteal phase as it is but blood tests this week and an appt to review the week after which gives me hope I'll know what's going on.

@InkyPaper sorry to hear about AF

@blackcurrantqueen hope your acupuncture goes well today, mine was quite foot related this week...she was of course adamant that the spotting was her work and also that it meant ovulation even though nothing on an ovulation sticks until a flashing smiley today?!

@Crazydoglady123 😯
@notyetamumbuttrying god yeah! I felt sorry for him. She's a bit full on and won't be everyone's cup of tea.
@Kirky658 I keep going out and looking! Because it's getting daft now!

@Sausage1990 ah well I hope it says something later! 🤞🏾
@paintfairy yeah she was and no she won't lol! I'll try and watch more of it on catch up if I can get away with it. Dh was very pleased when the last series ended 😂
@larrythelizard I'm glad you're being seen to soon. Hope you get answers x

Hello sorry absent after that first post, wish I was snoozing but no luck!
@clolo glad you are good and yay to scan something happening! Hope it goes /gone well when do you think you get the results?🤞🏻

@larrythelizard sunny?! God it's awful cold again here!! I'm eyeing up a bath 😂yesss for exercise! And how was the acupuncture?

Schoooools back @Franklydear and catching up with mates 🙌🏻🥰

Why have you resigned yourself to AF @Juno231 oh god, just read your next post. Bitch. 😂🤣but just think of alllll the great sex you've had over her compared to what she WON't when baby arrives.

@InkyPaper bugger. Damn jinxing. Shitters. Sorry shouldn't have opened my big gob.

@paintfairy oooooo tell me about your potential is it progesterone or pregnancy??!!! And could it be a bird nesting at the top of your chimney?? We had that. I felt cruel getting it swept 😬🙄

@bez91 "I got my brood on!" I get that too. Damn it

Argh freezing hands walking

@blackcurrantqueen to @Juno231 "sorry for the pregnant virgin" please tell me she's called Mary now @Juno231 🤣😂then we can call the next bus "where the Virgin Mary gets pregnant but not us" 😂damn it @paintfairy beat me. Bitch

@Haiyaa lovely buns you got there 😝🤗

@Dollybird89 ooh what kind of gaming?? I've spent my whole weekend playing RDR2 essentially...

@blackcurrantqueen good luck with acupuncture today!

@Haiyaa wow those buns look amazing

@bez91 thank you and yes definitely in waves. November cycle was awful for me, Dec not good, then Jan/Feb okay and now worse again.

@DJmum83 ha I'm not gonna lie your sad post made me giggle a little as the last one I saw from you, you said you were gaining weight really quickly and how upsetting that was - and now it seems your body has twisted that wish into something evil. A bit like the film Bedazzled? Where you get what you wish for but with a wicked twist.

@Minster2012 not Mary I'm afraid, but that would have been brilliant! Just resigned myself as I'm just convinced it won't be happening this time either. How are you feeling after your 3.45am start?

@Minster2012 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I think that's a great bus name!
Likely its just the progesterone i would have thought.

We have a cage thing on the top of the chimney so birds can't get down. But I kept hearing things and on the last drop I went outside and there were birds (3 no less) sat on it! What the hell they are dropping down I've no idea. But I'm thankful my house isn't falling down. We've had many issues since being here and I really can't cope with another. 🤣 Panic over!

@juno231 just a bit of warface/gta5 and tomclancy lol I've played rdr2 but don't play online anymore

Thanks for checking in @larrythelizard sorry I've been quiet, just been in a muddled headspace since the fertility clinic unexpectedly phoned the other day saying they now want to run more tests. We were so happy felt like a weight had been lifted with our decision to adopt but now that they've phoned to say they want to run more tests its cast doubt over whether we give ttc another go or not, we just don't know if we have it left in us to keep going but also don't know if we can adopt with 'what ifs' in our head. So we're just in a muddled headspace at the moment. 🤯

Seems like there's a lot of people a bit down in the dumps at the moment, maybe its something in the air. Big hugs to all that need it 💐

@Dollybird89 hmmmm that's really not right is it?!! So weird! But glad the foot is on the mend 🙌🏻you gotta ease yourself back into the fitness girl you are doing so well!

@DKDK123 sorry to hear about the additional fertility tests, what other tests do they want to do? Did you get any further with the adoption bits? Big hugs 🤗

@DJmum83 noooo for sickness that sucks big hairy balls, have your other kids gone back to school now or is it different with you guys?

@Juno231 knackered and run down tbh. Really wanted her to be Mary. Damn it. That would have been comedy gold 😂🤣

@Sausage1990 thankyou lovely!
I'm sorry for my rant but I feel so frustrated and upset! Had my appt with gynecologist nurse...the only action I got down there today was to swab for sti! She said oh needs to make an appt for a seven analysis...then once that's done I need to call for a blood test, then it'll be a hycosy, then we can discuss treatment with clomid. I feel fobbed off! I explained well clearly nothing wrong with oh seven...his got me pregnant twice! The issue is I'm not ovulating enough! She said they still need it done and have my tubes checked... but I said well I had an internal scan last month and that came back clear...and I ovulated in Oct so obviously nothing wrong with my tubes. My hormones are the issue. She didn't even ask how much we dtd or anything. Just said I need to stop taking my supplements as need to be off them 3 months before I can start any hormone treatment.
I said I think I could potentially be ovulating now or atleast by end of march based off my last cycle, and once I confirm ovulation shall I call to do blood test 7dpo to check my progesterone level? She said no. Just if I ovulate then do a hcg test 14dpo and if positive then to call them and let them know. I feel like I'm on my own and they arent actually wanting to help me...just to fob me off... I got home and told oh he needs to make the appt for semen analysis and he said he isn't doing that again...same frustration as me that his sperm are fine its me that's the problem. So now he said well long all this hospital stuff off and just see what happens... so I said well that means dtd every other day until i eventually ovulate and then he said well no because now your putting my under pressure. 😪 honestly I feel like I'm hitting a brick wall! I have clomid left over but it's out of date by like 4 years but I'm tempted to take it seeing as no body is helping me ovulate 😔😒 sorry for the rant girls but your the only ones who will get it xx

@DKDK123 i guess tests don't hurt to do? Doesn't mean you have to go down the ttc route but then at least you can make your decision based on more complete information? If they cost loads though then that's a different matter!

Omg spell check 🤣🤣just realised every time I wrote semen it came out as seven 🤣

@larrythelizard - will be really interested to hear how your acupuncture goes! I’m CD20 and just got a positive OPK so I think this will be a CD21 ovulation month for me too. Also interested to hear about your progesterone blood test, I’d really like to have one of those done.

@Juno231 - sorry you’re feeling down, it’s such a rollercoaster. I don’t understand how some people can get pregnant so quickly yet it takes others such a long time. At least now the ball is rolling with investigations for you so I really hope BFP soon!

@Haiyaa your buns look amazing! I love hot cross buns but don’t buy them until Easter as I could easily go through 3 packs a week.

@DJmum83 sorry you’re feeling so ill. My friend is pregnant atm and she’s got awful sickness and is just knackered all the time, it doesn’t look like a bundle of fun to be honest. Hopefully the nausea doesn’t last much longer

@paintfairy I have some serious MAFS catching up to do. Haven’t watched in a couple of weeks. I’m on the series with Elizabeth and Ines but finding some of the storylines so OTT even thkhhh I love the drama

@Hopeful110 that’s so annoying and sounds like QA waste of time. I get they have boxes to tick and research to do but I think they need to trust women a bit with our own bodies. I really hope they get to the bottom of it.

My cousin told us she was pregnant over the weekend which made me feel a bit weird but mostly I’m just envious! She was only trying three months but said that she ate pineapple core and she’s convinced that’s what did it this month. Probably a coincidence but I’m defo tempted to go out and buy a pineapple just in case!

@Asthenia haha you saying "your buns look amazing!" made me laugh. Agree with you on the buns though, my co-op started selling them first week of jan and I quickly had to stop buying them before ballooning.

@vil10 hooooow do you do 12k steps before noon every day?!