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? 🐣

@paintfairy I'm sure you will ❤️ Everything crossed for you!

@Franklydear omg that'd be me 🙋🏽‍♀️ My head was a scram at the time trying to process the thought of having 5 babies. I hate being suffocated by family but I'd have needed family to help and the car situation...we'd have needed a people carrier as that'd have been 8 of us without kids having friends over 😭 It was a bitter sweet BFN that month.

@Hopeful110 oh it's really early then!! Keeping everything crossed for you🤞🏼 I'm good Thankyou! No nothing else booked still Mexico and Greece, we haven't actually booked the Philippines yet because it's on the red list and we won't be going until December anyway, so just waiting for Mexico to be cancelled then we'll probably book it once covid improves over there! Still holding out for at least one holiday though!! Have you got anything booked??

@Missgoldilocks hi lovely!! I'm doing well Thankyou, taking a long well needed break from TTC until about December/January time, how're you??

@Somatronic sorry about the SA results! I think someone on here's OH had some tablets/vitamins and they improved his sperm!! He definitely needs to cut our the bad habits though!! Drinking??

@paintfairy thanks for that - knowing that it can be improved makes me feel a lot better.

@Vil10 He doesn't drink much but he has another vice along those lines which I have now banned. His father died not too long ago in very difficult circumstances and he's been working from home exclusively for over a year in an area where we've been under severe lockdowns since last October so I let him have his vice because I didn't want to be a cruel witch, but he'll have to stop now.

@Crazydoglady123 I'm not sure why, but whenever I'm told people have too many kids, my first thought is always- how do you get them in a car? 🤣
@Somatronic nothing really even changed between our first and second that I can say helped. But the second was done over the road from the hospital (cough) and the first was done at home. Its really annoying turn not having a room to do it because of covid. But if it gets cold even, the motility will drop. But there are things you can do to improve yes. Supplements. But also no phones in pockets, laptops on knees, tight underwear, alcohol, caffeine etc. Unless it's really really low then normal IVF is fine too. And ours is borderline and ok for IUI.

@paintfairy ah one day you'll need to drive through the jewish parts of London - everyone has what we call a jew mobile lol - a massive car for the 6-10 kids they've got. I wish I had their fertility!

@Minster2012 YOUR TOE wth - maybe you should put nail varnish on your toes to match it? Make that bruise an accessory

@dob78 @franklydear I'm the same. Feel like just jacking it in. It's so hard on your mental head. That's why I've stopped tracking and charting. I've my bloods with gp fri. If alls looking ok I'd consider a clinic for clomid for a few cycles then that's me. I keep telling myself, ur 40, some continue to have babies at 45 and I suppose that whats keeping me going. See how the bloods go 1st

Hey I'm reading along but not much time atm! Keeping an eye for new bus

But @paintfairy how the hell can they tell ovulation with the extra progesterone?

@Juno231 I'm actually limping on the dog walk earlier it hurts so much, silly little things are the worst like paper cuts!

@paintfairy thanks so much for your insight.

I haven't talked to my friends or family about TTC so I really appreciate the chats here. The support is great. I started therapy yesterday too so I can unload on that poor woman too rather than internalising it all and feeling like shit about myself.

Poor husband asked me a few times if I'm alright. He must be worried that I'm mad at him and his slow sperm.

@Somatronic I have pcos and hubby had 0% normal shaped sperm and we did it, please don't lose hope 💕 Impryl really helped.

@Minster2012 I did wonder the same? Unless it shows differently? I have no idea. I will do as I'm told, but it sounded odd to me!

It must do @paintfairy but a bit bizarre I guess?!

Right I've gotta head off so here's the new bus!

The nurse impregnated me when DH wasn’t there 🤞🏻😱TTC bus 39 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/conception/4225165-the-nurse-impregnated-me-when-dh-wasn-t-there-ttc-bus-39

Need to finish this thread off though!

Have we not finished this yet?!

@Juno231 I'm shocked you've never had any operations!! The medical history boxes are usually too small for me on ANY form!

@paintfairy why was the SA done across the road from the hospital?? Did he wank in a car park 🤔

@Somatronic good on you did starting therapy & it's not ideal about the SA but others have had results before going down the ivf route...is no one else wondering what the bad habit is?? Is he secretly wanking a lot to porn?!

Oooooo the porn thing that brought out some discussion in the summer!! Me I like a bit of porn, it just gets a bit repetitive, but maybe when I'm laid here talking to myself at the end of a bus 🚌🚎

@Minster2012 erm, more like on a road. 🤣

@paintfairy ha ha ha god he's totally right though, babies shouldn't be conceived like that but it might not be the only one conceived from a car fumble! Well done DH, he deserves a treat for that effort

@Minster2012 I did say- I bet some babies are. He replied not like this. And yeah, maybe not quite. 🤣 None of it was ideal at all from start to finish. Let's hope the stress was worth it!

If I test tomorrow sneakily, what do I do if it was bfp, tell DH or pretend to be surprised on Saturday when I do test, 🤔if is a big if though

On the road... now I'm picturing a guy standing on the road going at it with no car 🤣 fingers crossed it was worth it!

@Minster2012 nothing at all! No tonsillectomy, no appendectomy no nothing. I've never even broken a bone!

They asked me if any family members have had any operation related problem but neither of my parents have had anything done since they were kids lol!

@Franklydear tell OH - definitely!!