All aboard Minster's Ovulation Tea Party Bus - TTC away from cat poo Bus 38

[Minster2012]

I hereby invite you all to Minster’s First ever Eggy Tea Party...🥖🍍🍔🍦🍰🍫🧁held to celebrate the even slightest whiff of an Easter Ovulatory event...

Don’t fear Boris, it will be outside, socially distanced at various points of the UK & Ireland (other parts of the globe may attend), whatever the 🌞❄️⛄️we are up for it & often the sperm & 🥚stay apart at our gatherings too, even though we don’t want them too 🤣.

It’s a bring your own event, private chefs & hello fresh/gousto boxes may attend, pics of your offerings encouraged...🥦🌽🌮🥘🍝🍻🍹🍸🧉🍾☕️🍵🧃🥤🧋

Get your glad rags on ladies Cos we are having a party 💃🏼👯‍♀️👫& we can go OUT now! (Well we are done with stopping in aren’t we?)

This bus is the one where TTC happens in many different forms, shagging conventionally, unconventionally, with the help of scientific intervention, IUI/ICSI/Clomid/IVF & even just watching from the top of the bus 👀. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been trying for days, weeks, months or like some of us we’ve been around each other for so long we can’t bear to leave, nothing is TMI and there’s never a silly question...

Hell we KNOW TTC is tough, lots of us have had heart ache & are chasing 🌈so we are there for each other, as well as trying to have laughs along the way 🥰☺️

Oh and we like an embarrassing story to get your ticket for entry please!

And if you see mention of my blog then blame these guys they made me do it...#shamelessplug

minstermusings.co.uk for the blog that’s where the full stuff happens too explain my weird story & minstermusings on insta - some of our ladies have made special anonymous accounts so we can link up via me 🥰
If you want to sign up & get updates please do, please note your username if you comment shows up to others so maybe make it anonymous I won’t be offended 😂🤣(unless you are mean)

Story so far...

June 24 BFPs
July 11 BFPs
August 18 BFPs
Sep 4 BFPs
Oct 7 BFPs
Nov 7 BFPs
Dec 14 BFPs
jan 7 BFPs
February 8 BFPs
March 5 BFPs

What will April bring? 🐣

@Crazydoglady123 hoping you get good news and it is just a collapsed follicle!

@Haiyaa not long to wait them!! You'll feel freshhh😂 I felt like a new woman!

@Minster2012 I hope so! I'm so bloody achy and sore this morning! It feels good but I can't walk😂 that's so annoying!! I really dislike receptionists at doctors surgeries!! And the woman could've also done with telling you thst before you made that appointment!! Very exciting on the house front too!! Keep us updated!

@Florence13 aww that's lovely!! How far along did you think you were?? You have an excuse though, you're allowed to just be dog walking😂

@larrythelizard that's what I keep telling myself, however I can't walk this morning😂

@Catherinettc im going to have to watch this video, sounds a good'un😂😂 people are fcking miserable these days, can't do anything without someone telling you you shouldn't be doing it!

@justwant2beamum hey, so sorry for your mc, sending hugs x

@Hopeful110 yasss to ovulating!!🥳

@Billythecat aww look at them!! Adorable!!

@notyetamumbuttrying hahaha why Thankyou! How're you feeling today? And when will you know any results? I mean it took me a while to get back into the zone but with only 10 weeks before a potential holiday I needed to give myself a kick up the arse!!x

@notyetamumbuttrying did you know you had endo? What were your symptoms?
@Franklydear would your neighbour really ask that?! I don't give my number out for neighbours to message me about ridiculous things. But I can honestly say I've no idea what the level of cleanliness of people's cars on my street is? How weird?!
@Minster2012 new house sounds exciting. I like house viewing. Mainly because I'm nosey.

Will do @Vil10, if you can't walk it's good right??

@Thinkingandblinking how you doing? 7 weeks yesterday right? 😘🙌🏻

@billythecat awwww kitties ❤️
@notyetamumbuttrying glad you are OK hope you're not feeling too rough this morning. Take it easy and rest up, the anesthetic will make you feel pretty rubbish for a couple of days. Did they find much endo and did they tell you how and where it was removed from? How do you feel about having a diagnosis now? Xx

@Hopeful110 yayy to ov, hope it's a good egg 🥚🤞🏼

@notyetamumbuttrying that's good news, hope you're feeling ok today 💕

@Catherinettc hahah love your daughters vid, perfectly acceptable IMO 😂. Me and my friend used to half drink our bottle of lucozade and top up with vodka for double IT lessons on a Friday afternoon 🙈 kind of like "prinks" for the weekend 😂 I'm glad I got that out my system young.

@Minster2012 yayyy house viewings! How exciting, I spend my life on RightMove. Not moving but houses/renovation is my thing so always having a nosey. Are you putting yours on the market or just having a ponder viewing for now?

First month temping - thrown it in the bin 😂 don't understand my chart so having a wobble about it!

@bez91 my first month temping too, I feel that 😩 what point are you at in your cycle? I said to myself I would stop after it confirmed ovulation but here I am 😂 and it keeps trying to change ovulation, I'm not liking what it's trying to tell me!!

@bez91 @minthumbugs feel free to share your charts as some ladies here might be able to help you figure them out.

Thanks @2020mission!

This is mine... All the symptoms were there for ovulation for me (EWCM, cramps, positive LH) for ovulation to occur when the app said it did. Then I had a slight dip today in my temp and it moved it to Sunday?! I've taken my temp out because I did wake up in the middle of the night and also I refuse to accept what it's saying 🙈

(Sunday was CD27)

Thanks for all the support guys ur the best bunch ❤

Love a good house viewing @Minster2012 but don't be ending up on one of the aibu threads about getting screwed off the estate agent otherwise @Franklydear will have a field day 🤣🤣 and make sure u Wash ur car every 2 days 🤣🤣🤣 xx

@minthumbugs I'm CD17, supposedly 5dpo according to OPKs 🤷‍♀️ how about you? I'm not using it again, I'm throwing my toys out the pram. I think you can get a dip before rise can't you? I'll wait for the experts to analyse yours. Here's mine, like there is a slight rise but a shit rise so I don't think I've ovulated 🙈

@bez91 Yeah I'm supposed to be 5dpo as well! TWW twins! I'm on CD30 though. What's the orange and what's the blue? I can never understand these lol. How are you feeling in your TWW so far? X

@Minster2012 8 weeks yesterday! But feel like I’m still very down on it working...RMC really is the fun killer of being pregnant 🤪

I haven’t had a scan as too chicken....!

@bez91 by no means an expert as I didn't do temping - DH refused to let me do it as he knew it would stress me out. But I'm led to believe that there's a dip when you ovulate and a dip in RHR normally around the same time. And then sometimes an implantation dip as well!

Awww @Billythecat kittens are so cute!

@Minster2012 ooh exciting stuff about the house! And enjoy the sale 🎉🎉

@justwant2beamum sorry about your mc hun, I remember your username, sorry to see you back but we're here for you. I used to be Newbie0818 btw, changed my name

@bez91 temping can be stressful but just keep at it, takes a while. I've attached my last chart for you (stopped after bfp), by no means perfect because of pcos but you can see the rise etc. In theory like others have said you dip at ov and the rise is what you want to look out for.

@bez91 wish I could help but I have no idea about charts etc 🤦‍♀️ it all looks like gobbledegook to me lol xx

@Minster2012 haha sorry 🤭
Yeah went well thanks! Good ol clear out so hopefully all's good to go now!
Yep, and I prob will but not with Dh sadly as he's working. My mum will LOVE to go with me so will call her in a bit n check.
Wow sounds wonderful mate, hope you get it! Ah I see what you mean now. Exhausting I bet!
@Vil10 sore but ok thanks 😊
The endo was detected and removed. Tubes are clear also so it's all good! Just gotta recover and crack on now. Still pursuing ivf as well so if we can dtd in two weeks that'll be last natural try I reckon!
Holidays are always good for the kick up the butt aren't they! That'll be me in June if not preggars.
@paintfairy painful periods (on run up and once on), painful deep sex and pain afterwards. Pain at ovulation. So just constant pain practically 😂
@Kirky658 feel ok, just rough throat annoying me. Asked Dh to get me some throat spray so will try that in a bit. Thank you, yeah so 3 patches of it and 2 adhesions on one ovary 😱 sounds like chaos in there 😂 she didn't say where it was removed from but I asked the nurse or Hca to grab the notes once I was out of recovery and we couldn't read the writing 😩 but I recognised POD and then the other 2 were uterus something. They used heated scissors so a mix of ablate and excision. Feel fantastic that I was right, it's so horrible for making you feel crazy isn't it. I could tell friends etc were skeptical of what I was saying.
@bez91 thank you 😊 yeah i am! My thermometer is still in its packet 😂

@bez91 I suspect that everyone's rise in temp is different, and the key is that there was a rise. Do you do ov sticks too? I generally only use the temping to confirm what the ov sticks tell me - I don't think I'm precise enough about timing etc for anything else.

It’s that time again!

Here is current situation:

Past week I have had low LH scores (according to Premom) on my cheapie OPK tests - variable lines, some quite strong.

Yesterday I did a Clear Blue and a cheapie and I had nothing, nada, zero reading on anything - the cheapie didn’t even have a faint line

Today I did a cheapie and Clear Blue. Premom says cheapie is low LH (though the is strongish) Clear Blue is FLASHING MF SMILEY FACE.

1. So what the actual F is happening? IS ClearBlue the ultimate authority?

Currently have no symptoms including no CM (unsurprisingly) and average horn.

1. How many flashing smiley days have you had before it went static
?

1. Have you ever had flasihing smiley days which did not lead to a static day?

Also:

It is completely hilarious that ClearBlue advises you to “make love” on your smiley face day. What they really mean is “GET THAT SPERM INSIDE YOU IN THE MOT EFFICIENT WAY POSSIBLE!!”

While we’re on this subject, the sperminator and I were discussing whether it was possible to incorporate the baby making process into dirty chat. We didn’t get very far. He said ruefully, I’m finding it hard to sex up the reality that we’re about to ruin our lives…again… Anyone got any hot tips on baby making sex chat? Last night I tried “GIVE ME YOUR BOYS” as a sexy command but that appeared to have the opposite effect.

@notyetamumbuttrying absolutely, I was devastated to know I had endo but like you say it validates that you knew things weren't right! OK so pouch of douglas & uterosacral ligaments by the sound of it, same as me! Be interested to see how yours settles down and I hope you have a better success than me ❤️ oh the sore throat is vile, ice cream for the win. I had a bad chest for 4 weeks after my last one it was vile. Xx

@pennysays I love your posts 🤣 they make me chuckle. Sperminator!!! No advice on the dirty talk really, we tried to keep the sex about sex, keep it away from the getting pregnant side of things as I found it stressed me out. DH wasn't fussed he was dead excited about it haha.

@pennysays you aren't doing the cheapie first thing, are you? I find they work best in the afternoon. I only tried both at the same time once (to check my cheap ones were correct) and it did match up.
@notyetamumbuttrying jeez, sounds awful! I hope you get less pain now it's sorted. That doesn't sound fun at all!

@Justanothercyster that's really helpful sharing your BFP chart 👍 did you notice much different with your temperature that cycle or just that it stayed high and didn't drop as it usually would?

I recommend @Juno231 for chart questions! I'm pretty clueless having only recorded it for a few cycles.

@minthumbugs yes cycle twins. Blue is BBT and orange RHR. Tbf I'm good as I'm not counting it as the TWW after some crappy blood results and this chart 😆 so I'm deffo not symptom spotting this month, how about you?

Thanks @Kirky658 @Justanothercyster @Catherinettc I'm still binning it 😂 (after this cycle)

@larrythelizard I do use OPKs, you can kinda see on chart. Use CB up until peak then some ICs after that peak which were all negative

@pennysays I also have that problem with CBs and ICs saying different fucking things. I'm done with them 🙈

Fucking TTC 🤦🏼‍♀️🤯 anyway, does anyone UK based have any exciting plans with slightly eased restrictions? We're going to the farm Saturday, I'm so exciting. Actually, really I am! Then friend over for a curry Saturday night in the garden, we have blankets, new garden furniture, mood lighting, very romantic 😆

@bez91 ahhhh ok I see, I am so bad with all the different tracking things! Trying not to really symptom spot either, my LPs have been 8/9 days the last few cycles after MC and this cycle is longer already! So if anything I'm just feeling relief that everything is going back to normal, we will see what happens. Fingers crossed for you. X

lol @pennysays - I try to keep my OH out of it as much as poss! Haha. I get conflicting results between cheapies and CB too, it's a nightmare. I had 5 flashing this month before static (all very very negative cheapies) if that helps.