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!

@Minster2012 ahh yeah I watched The Nest. It was filmed around here where I live so was drawn in just from that haha. I'll look for bump, birth and baby first 👍 still hurts hearing anyone say they weren't trying though 😅 thanks for the heads up!

@DKDK123 I will never pee into anything again and not think of TTC 😑 So sorry you've had 5 early losses, that's tough. I thought my 2 CPs were bad.
On the Fitbit... if you're averaging 10k steps a day I've already lost 😅 with the rain, cold weather and full time work I'm not doing well with steps during the week. I can easily do more than 10k at weekends though so I'm not all bad heh

@lucyrp never got to ask... has your morning sickness eased off yet?

@lucyrp glad to hear the hot water bottle is working. Sorry to hear about your OH's Grandad, I hope he is OK! My dad has had two heart attacks and it is awful seeing them in the hospital. Thankfully he is now absolutely fine!

@bez91 it was either Calpol applicator or a turkey baster 🤣

Happy to report that DTD, lubrication and slurp have all been successfully accomplished! Now we wait! 🤞

@2020mission yes it went as soon as I hit 12 weeks funnily enough! Been sick a couple of times since but from hormonal headaches 🙁

@Kirky658 this is his second heart attack now the last one was two years ago and had a pacemaker fitted I think. This time they want to have aho at doing the stents again or something. Bless him. We video called him after we dropped the clothes off as we obvs weren't allowed to see him and he seems okay so fingers crossed. He gets very irate about the smallest things tho so we've told him he needs to calm down or he won't get to meet his great grandchild and he's really excited about them so hopefully will make him think xx

I just can’t keep up! Hectic week at work plus toddler and start of fertile week so getting busy...

Love the make do applicator @Tornado2Inc! Will never look at a calpol syringe in the same way again 🤣🤣🤣🤣 my conceive plus came in little applicators and even though I usually get EWCM I want to keep it sperm friendly for as long as possible, even tried the famous yoga slurp but to be honest I just ended up doing a queef... not very romantic 😂

Sorry about the BFNs ladies and the bad news on the house @Minster2012 did one of the developers get it? Booooooo!

@2alreadywantanother house looking great, on the one hand the tenant has been outrageously cheeky but on the other hand.... I would probably do the same 🤭 but more because of the CF landlord.

Hope you FIL feels better soon @lucyrp

@DKDK123 what an absolute mind fuck, especially when you had just made your decision. Hope you can come to a decision that you are happy with.

Vent away @Justanothercyster, completely get why you would feel so anxious after waiting so long for your BFP, but as others have said, just take it day by day. Sometimes I think MN isn’t terribly helpful if you have anxiety as you see the worst that can happen and it seems like it is everywhere but we are only a tiny cross section of the women currently TTC/pregnant.

@lucyrp that the best brive 💖
Sorry life is giving you lemons @Minster2012
I am in a rut, I want to seat in the sunshine with bestie watching our children play, with a bump, and a decaf coffee, due to bump ...
I want to get on a plane and argue with my brothers about how difficult parents can be, I want to know when I'll be able to see my nephew, due mid April, I flied with ds when my niece was a week old....
I don't want any more lemons, I can't make any more lemonade

@Haiyaa I gave up on keeping up, so I just show up with something random 😂 If you queefed, you're definitely doing it right 😂 I try to minimise them (by making them as slow as possible) so stuff doesn't come out, though. If my OH ever saw this, I'd shoot myself 🤣

@lucyrp yeah hopefully it will be a bit of a wake up call for him. Hope he's allowed home soon though. My dad had the stents in a few years ago as well after his second one.

@franklydear sending hugs, things will get better, I promise 😘

@Haiyaa no idea who bought it, and prob won't find out for a while, the house will still be for sale in the future but it's a huge house with a tiny garden, no land & no outbuildings/garage. So it doesn't make sense for us, we kind of needed the whole thing plus we had already discussed with a guy across the road selling one plot to him, they've carved it up wrong the village thinks, the poor main house will be screwed now. Get on that dick girl!!! 🍆🍆🍆🍆

@2020mission ah yes of course I often forget you are in Scotland too! I'm so jealous of the Scottish baby boxes btw. I want one if I ever get pregnant can you find me one off a resale site 😝but yes the birth one Scottish too but yessss lots of oh yeah surprise FFS.

@blackcurrantqueen you are too kind. And moist clearly. Some of us need to insert lube with applicators, bloody canons some of us need we are drier than the Sahara 🤪😜I said to DH last night god we've gone through a tube of preseed in ONE MONTH. That £18.50 per month 😝bloody TTC let alone ivf expensive

@lucyrp is OH grandad ok? Is OH ok? Are you ok? Sending big hugs xxxx

@Tornado2Inc yayyyy 🤞🏼 Turkey baster... 😂 at Christmas I complained to my dad that I didn't own a turkey baster, he said he'd get me one for my birthday (in January) which he did 😂 he also knows about our MCs etc so knows we're TTC so it did feel a bit awkward receiving a turkey baster as a present 🙈

@Minster2012 ahhhh crap news on the house, are you actively looking at other stuff or was it just that it came up?

@Haiyaa whooops yoga slurp fail 😂

After committing to the whole DTD every other day all cycle DH is behaving like a grumpy teenager. He's has a busy day at work and he's on edge because he's on call but he appears to be sulking watching the football so probably no 🍆 tonight 😒

@Franklydear I know it's crap isn't it 😖

@bez91 I cringe for you 🤣

@Haiyaa thank you x

@Franklydear think it should help him calm down a little

@Kirky658 yeah hopefully he will be able too🥰

@Minster2012 yeah I think he's okay, seems his usual self. I think OH nan enjoying the peace and quiet as awful as that sounds 🤣🙈 OH is okay just waiting to be told he can go collect him. Thanks. I think Everutning is okay for now xxx

@bez91 we are actively looking at stuff always in our area as we can only look in a certain area due to the business & family, we know we got a good deal on our house so we kinda think we should use that when we know we would get a good price for it as market is really buoyant round here for ones like ours & we REALLY want a bigger garden/a bit of land (we have no garage, land, and a small garden and I FIGHT DS nearly every day to get him to go "walk the dogs") whereas if we had a garden they could roam we wouldn't need that. Also often DH brings diggers home on a trailer that we have to park outside. BUT we ADORE our house and we haven't outgrown it so we would only move for the right thing. But whilst interest rates are low on mortgages too it's appealing. There's even been leaflet drops on our village for houses 🤣. But we designed the interior of our house as a conversion from the barn from scratch so we love it so everything has a high bar to meet to us anyway. Maybe not to everyone else 😋

Hey girls!
Hope everyone is well. So sorry I haven't caught up for about 3 days now other than seeing the odd bits.
Just wanted to let you know I'm still here! It's been a really sad time this end, one of my friends passed away this afternoon 😭💔 absolutely heartbreaking. She was diagnosed with breast cancer about 18 months ago then last year got the all clear but very shortly after it came back and spread & not long before Christmas was told it was terminal 🥺 these past few days it spread even more and she was classed as end of life..so we knew it was coming but does not make it any easier at all especially so young, leaving 2 girls behind a teenager and 5 yr old 😭
Bloody covid means not even sure we will be able to attend the funeral with so few amount allowed! Sorry for the sad post but just wanted to let you know I'm still here and why I've been quiet and not caught up.
Hope everyone is okay & have I missed anything major?! Xxxx

@holliel567 oh I'm so sorry hun what sad news. Hope you're OK xx

Thank you for all the responses about cramps and anxiety, I will just try to power through.

@Minster2012 their loss with the buy, sucks though :/

@HollieL567 that's such sad news! So sorry 💔

@lucyrp oh no! Hope you're all ok!

@larrythelizard just saw your story on insta, are you ok?? X

OMG @larrythelizard I hope you are ok all the love to you make sure you are safe

@HollieL567 too goodness lots of love and how are you feeling did you have another scan?

@lucyrp I'm pleased OH's Ganesh dad is ok big live to you too and you rest up after being driver 😘

Gosh what a morning to wake up too!

Big hurricane here last night
Blow the cobwebs away

@Minster2012 sorry to hear you didn’t get the development opportunity but it just means something even better will hopefully come along!!

@HollieL567 oh my goodness so so sorry about your friend

@bez91 sounds like you have been covering yourself dtd every other day hope OH is more on board today and not so grumpy. I want to dtd every other day at least this cycle but don’t want to put to much pressure on OH so he struggles to perform either.

@lucyrp this video popped up on my tik tok feed this morning! It's talking about the round ligament you mentioned and how to help ease the pain and aching.... heres the link for it :)

vm.tiktok.com/ZMehqC4dY/

@Minster2012 ahhhh I can see why you're in a tricky situation with the house. We've very much ripped ours out and started again since we bought it 3 years ago, we designed every part of it and it would be disheartening for someone else to enjoy all our hard work so I get that! Hopefully something comes up just perfect and you get what you want for yours.

@HollieL567 so sorry to hear about your friends that's awful. Hope you are ok? Been that child myself, absolutely awful. If you can make sure you're there for the family as best you can. It can be hard to know how to act/what to say but simply just little gestures like helping out with errands, bringing food will mean more than you'll ever know and for those girls to have some of mummy's awesome friends to look up to 💕

@Florence13 I know where you're coming from. We had a chat last night and then got a bloody flashing smiley this morning, only on CD8 so seems set for another early ov that doesn't usually bode well for me 🤦🏼‍♀️ he saw the test as I left it in the bedroom and I think he felt a little guilty. We have slightly differing sex drives anyway so TTC is bad ground sometimes 🙈

@HollieL567 hugs, is so hard!
@Minster2012 arrrgh, it would have been a good project
Who are all the newborns in my insta? Have a few now
We have clear skies but gales, I have the morning off so probably a bit of exercise and self-care is due

Weather is awful here, took the dog for a walk during a break in the rain. His lead slipped out of my hand and he was scared of the lead and he fell into the canal! Had to drag him out by his lead and then bring him home for a bath. He's looking very sheepish now! So that's been my morning, need a nap now 😂

Oops @minster2012 it would help if I remembered to attach the pic 🙈 you do it twice a week and obviously hope on these you don't get 2 lines 😂 It's getting easier as we're doing more of them but the first week or two of using something that reminds you of a pregnancy test and having colleagues shout woo hoo I'm not pregnant was quite a head fuck, two or three knew of our ttc troubles so they were obviously more sensitive but it's not something I wanted to share with all 20odd in the department so they weren't to know how much it constantly hurt to hear.

Crossing fingers, toes, eyes, even ovaries that this time everything goes smoothly for your IVF and you finally get that long deserved bfp 🤞🤞🤞

Glad to hear your sex drive is on the up again @lucyrp 😉 I remember the 2nd trimester horniness. Tho at 24 weeks I started having problems and they said I couldn't have sex, or even foreplay I wasn't allowed to orgasm at all for for duration of my pregnancy 😱 definitely hoping it doesn't come to that with you but make the most of all the good sex just now just incase it is taken away from you 🍆
Oh no just scrolled down to read about your Grandad 😢 hope he's OK what a worrying time for you all and extra frustrating that you can't go give him a hug.

@2020mission 10k is what I aim for when I can but there's days like yesterday where I was stuck behind a laptop for most of the day and DS spent the evening clinging to me that 4k was all I managed. I try go for walks on my lunchbreak (when I get it) and park the car furthest away in the car park just little bits that add up. When stuck indoors on a rainy day Leslie sanson youtube videos for walking at home are good. @Dollybird89 thats another one I forgot to suggest to you yesterday.

@Franklydear sorry to hear your sounding so fed up with lockdown. Tho I suggest stop using those lemons for lemonade and start using them for tequila shots instead, much more fun 😉

So sorry to hear about your friend @hollieL567 so heartbreaking 💔

Thank goodness the dog is ok after his canal dip this morn @Kirky658! Hope you're both snuggled up by the fire getting toasty and warm now.

And I still didn't attach the pic 😂🤦‍♀️ one of them days already