Pitos pequeños en sandwiches & STILL hunting for the damn eggs - TTC Bus 37

[Minster2012]

Bing Bing the BFP bus is back!

Last bus we got some great results and now it’s a REAL Easter 🐣hunt so let’s make like 🐰s and jump on the 🍆

Oh but we’ve packed up the 🥪🌭🌮Cos we can do that soon! A picnic, and in our sandwiches we’ve got some weird things...little 🍆conchions, pickles, crisps, KETCHUP?? Say what?? Whatever you want in your bread bring it to the bus!

March and April we’ve got a lot of exciting times ahead with people going for Clomid & IVF as well as a lot of straight up sex for the “normal” TTC gang so let’s get shagging & FIND THOSE 🐣🌈.

Hop on the bus, give us your best embarrassing story and grab a ticket, we are TTC in very weird ways and usually talking about most other things 🍞🥨🥞🍔

And we are still 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.

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

4 for March
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Let’s go go go!

@franklydear love the bossboy update! You go girl!!! Miaoooww! 🤣🤗

I think you should @notyetamumbuttrying will keep fingers crossed 🤞🏻

@Franklydear ha ha love the boss boy update, he's a tool! And ok but great if you get to go to the school, would you pick that or the appeal one?

The rich school is the appeal one, it's not worth the risk of ending up in shitty school, we'll pick the good school in a modest budget, we are very lucky that that is a possibility at all

Thank you ladies, I don’t get many chances to kick him, but when I do, I do it hard, also I am on leave next week so won’t see him for nearly two weeks, enough time to lick his wounds?

Well I finished watching 22 kids and counting, bloody hell how annoying that there kids are fertile myrtles too 🙄

@Minster2012 I've seen odd bits of that. I honestly have no idea how they cope with it. Just the shopping and washing would do me. Never mind the looking after.

@Minster2012 ahhh I love it, but agree with paint fairy so stressful! Can't even cope with the dog most days 😂

Thanks hun @Minster2012 I'm gonna go ahead with both and see what happens! I get my Covid test couriered to me and they wait for me to do it and then whisk it away 😂 I didn't know there was such a service out there!
Gosh I couldn't sit through all of that show, too rage inducing when we can't even manage one 🤪

Evening beautiful ladies!
Long work days finished

@Franklydear bossboy update made me laugh 😂

@notyetamumbuttrying I work in a hospital and honestly we use a computer system so they'd be able to see you'd been in somewhere else, but I think for shielding they maybe exclude medical appts so just double check!

@DKDK123 sorry about the BFN 💕

@Dollybird89 sorry you're feeling a bit crap; just look how well you are doing and trust the process. You will get there 💕💜

I'm all good, hysteroscopy booked for 14th, so a month off TTC for me too!

@blackcurrantqueen I wasn’t impressed, last thing I need from him is a ring (metaphorically, I am allergic to metals)🤦🏼‍♀️

@blackcurrantqueen thanks. I should highlight it then shouldn't I. Or just play dumb considering they didn't say to me, oh you have an appointment here a week before.
What's your hysteroscopy for? Hope all goes well!

Hey all,just checking in and saying hi. Not been on much the last few days because there is nothing much happening ! I'm joining the 'taking next cycle off' crew , I know beggars can't be choosers but the due date would be a bit of a nightmare for various reasons and to be honest we could do with a month off from ttc! Hope everyone is ok. @Dollybird89 honestly don't blame you for being disheartened. Cd140something is just cruel and I'm sure not a nice af after all that time. Hopefully it is the start of a more regular cycle 🤞
@HollieL567 so glad your scan went well. A relief after all you have been through . I hope you are feeling more at ease now x

Thanks ladies .. it's weird still af comes normal for a few hours then back to spotting... my periods are usual really heavy so it's odd.. not sure how a light /normal cycle should be lol 🤷‍♀️ Drs having me going for more blood tests so maybe they can figure something out. Am I doing the right thing applying for this awesome job when my body is going AWOL on me?

On the bright side going to see my dad tomorrow and a real life friend! Soo excited lol

I think it seems a flat month for many of us on here? I've struggled today. I randomly cried this morning and it was over nothing much. 🙄🤣 But I'm fed up. With many things. And friends kind of annoyed me too. I've not really seen anyone in ages to talk to, friend or not, as I have worked from home a year now. Sick of everyone banging on about covid too. A work friend was going to organise an outdoor meet up for this weekend and didn't. And then my friend (lives about an hour away) originally said she would meet me this week as she's been off (always with her other half mind, I never get to see her alone) and hasn't, and then today asked what my plans were for this weekend, to which I said nothing, and then she reeled off what she was doing. I last saw her in October, never get to see her often, as they are always busy, but I think it just bothered me extra today.
So I'm in a fuck everyone mood. Which isn't helpful as I feel I just need to get out and talk to someone, but no one is interested? A bloke at work said I was welcome for a coffee any time when I was messing him earlier about things (sounds weird, but we are friends and he's much older, it's not like that, he's married) and I might at some point to get out. But obviously I can't really talk about girly stuff with him. 🤣 And DH is randomly pissing me off, purely because we are just both here all the bloody time and do nothing or see no one. I went up to mums for an hour earlier, just to get out of the way!

@paintfairy sending you hugs! That sucks about your friend! I have no friends where I live as I moved just as lockdown started so if I wanna see my only friend I have to drive 3 hours! It gets lonely and I love OH to bits but like you say you can't do girly chat with a guy. Keep your chin up! Maybe we should have a mumsnet coffee day lol

@Katao glad I'm not the only one being a bit fussy with a Christmas/new year due date 😅 although knowing our luck this is the month it would happen when not trying?

@paintfairy yeah absolutely has been a rubbish month for me too. We seem to have a lot of fertility testing/IVF progress going on here which is good but otherwise it feels a bit downbeat. Hopefully a bit of lockdown easing happening later this month and more better weather will help lift everyone's spirits. That and some more BFPs 🤞 one of my friends messaged me on Monday moaning that she was having a bad Monday as she was sore with AF cramps and AF had also just arrived for me... I was so close to saying "yeah tell me about it double whammy when TTC too" she has no idea I'm trying.

@Dollybird89 haha we just all make a coffee and post a photo ☕️ ? It does suck not being able to meet up with friends more often. I have a couple of guy friends and they're definitely not good for this chat. One told me his wife and him don't want kids, his kids are his dogs so if I told him what's going on he'd probably just recommend a dog 🙄 😆

@2020mission yea something like that lol get some hot chocolate and snacks and bitch about all that's wrong in the world haha

@Dollybird89 @2020mission @paintfairy
I would very much be up with a coffee and chat with you girlies! Perhaps we should do a zoom chat one day soon? We can post the link on your DM's.

@paintfairy definitely a flat feeling and not just here, in RL too.I think since it's come up to tge year mark with lockdowns everyone is just fed up! Then for all of us who have spent that year ttc as well its double fed up! Sorry you are feeling let down by friends so annoying when it feels like they can't be bothered and hate it it when a friend can't separate from her OH for 5 minutes! It's just not the same catching up with acouple asa mate. Meet your man friend, even if you can't fo girly talk it will do you good.

@2020mission well we are going to use condoms to be sure. Looking forward to a tww without symptom spotting but I bet I'll do it out of habit 🤣 we gave ut some serious thought but I'd have to have a c section and really would gate to leave my other dc at Christmas for an extended hospital stay so skipping a month it is. There were a couple of other smaller reason to avoid as well so think ot is the right choice for us but still a bit sad to miss an opportunity.

@paintfairy we've all been in lockdown for 12 weeks (minimum) which is a long time, I think that's playing on everyone. Also covid has made some people weird I think - I'm a bit worried about my BF and how risky she still thinks everything is (not that I want to break the rules at all). My other theory is that March was the last chance to have a baby in 2021 so it feels a bit shit not to be pregnant. Or does to me anyway!

@Dollybird89 I'm pleased your drs are taking you seriously now and trying to get to the bottom of stuff. And yes, go for the awesome job, your body will get sorted.

I should be seeing one of my closest friends on Monday and I'm so excited!!

Today I'm making this...going to enjoy this weekend then get back on the diet next week as I've put loads of weight on recently!

Oh ladies, I am so fed up of being fed up too, hang in there, not much longer hopefully, you guys are what kept me sane...

@HollieL567 awww that's such a lovely scan pic! You must be feeling much more reassured now x

@Dollybird89 ahhh we are almost cycle buddies... im cd145 today, its so draining isn't it. I'm still waiting for AF to show her ugly mush! But no sign either. Hopefully she shows up for both of us soon!

@DKDK123 sorry about the bfn lovely :( doesn't get any easier :(

It seems quite a few of us are steaming ahead with tests and investigations! Which is great news that they all seem quite soon! OH done is SA sample and the lady said results will take 7-10 days to get back to the gyne nurse. Also GP called and my HCG bloods came back normal, she did say it had been 5 days when I had the bloods done since my last positive test so should of been done alot sooner. But she's told me a CP so it'll mean next time I get a positive hpt to call her and she will order bloods right away to check my levels. (Seperate to what the gyne will do/monitor) so I guess that's a relief. :)

Sorry I haven't been on much, been taking a bit of time away from ttc atleast until AF arrives, im not temping or tracking opks and tbh it feels good! I don't think I realised how stressed out the opks and temps were making me, but yeah...just taking things day by day. I hope you all have a lovely Easter weekend! Il be busy with the kids doing Easter egg hunts and stuffing my face with chocolate haha xx

@Franklydear yes me too. You all just 'get it'

@Dollybird89 oh no, that must be hard. 3 hours is a long way! My 1 hour away friend used to be further, this is the nearest she's ever been. But since she met her bloke we just never get to do things together without men. And it's only like twice a year anyway. 🤣 The rest of my friends fizzled out. Most had kids and then they don't want to know you. I have one nearby i sometimes see but not often. And a neighbour I got friendly with after moving here (but again, she's got a 2 year old, so she's busy) that i used to have a cuppa with sometimes before lockdown.
@2020mission do any of your friends know about ttc? Only one of mine does. Literally no one else does at all. So it's hard not to be able to talk about that. And I would recommend a dog too. 🤣
@notyetamumbuttrying it would be lovely, would it?
@Katao yeah I've never been attached to my DH (or anyone else) and I enjoy me time (in the old world!) so I just don't get it. It really annoys me to be honest. We've a shared hobby, but now he's involved in that too, so we can't even do that together without him! 🙄
@larrythelizard yes it is a long time. And I'm not sure it'll ever be normal. And yes it has made people weird. There was a AIBU post the other day of a woman with a baby and a 5 year old wanting her own (vaccinated) mother to take a covid test before meeting her in a garden. If you'd have told me this 14 months ago, I would have laughed at you. What I find somewhat baffling is - babies are at risk of a billion things with no immune system. And over the last how many years we've had them passed around family when born and no one has given a thought about it! They could have caught much worse things than covid yet no one worried. I haven't broken rules either really but I do think the whole thing is insanity. We might be alive but we aren't living. And there's more than a 3% chance I'll get mowed down by a car crossing the road! I don't never cross though? There comes a point when you either get on with it, or you give up life.