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? 🐣

@Franklydear one of the best I'd say 😜
@Kirky658 sweetie aren't ya 😘 ah ok so I'm not going mad then lol! They don't usually linger this long but I'm sooooo uncomfortable still 😩 ahh 17 weeks is ace! You finding out sex at next scan then?
@larrythelizard yay to early ov!! 🥳 I'm bk in the tww 🥱

@notyetamumbuttrying anything I can do to make anyone else's lap easier! Oh another thing, remember to ask for some lactulose if they prescribe you codeine for pain as otherwise you won't be going to the loo for a long time and it is awful. Yep we will be, 2 weeks on Wednesday, will be happy once the 20 week scan is done tbh, been causing me a lot of stress and worry x

Thank you all - you're amazing ❤️ too many of you to tag, I really appreciate the support!
Managed to get hold of my results so consulted Doctor Google 🙄. Looks to be my serum oestradiol which is exceptionally low, still not very clear what that means exactly but got 21 day bloods coming next and a 'vag scan' so I suppose I can review all with the GP then. Supposedly ov day today but don't think I've ovulated judging by conflicting OPKs 🙈

@Juno231 that's good being first thing, I hate waiting around and you too @notyetamumbuttrying hope everything goes well for you both😊

@Kirky658 😚 ooh great tip, thank you! I go twice a day normally so will defo need help if there's chance i can't go on my own! 😂 Ahh I bet! The anxiety must never go I guess. I'm sure it'll go smoothly ♥️

Thank you @bez91 get dtd anyway so that all bases are covered!!

@Kirky658 all of this is brilliant info! Loving the pillow under seat belt in particular. But erm... Gas trapped in my SHOULDER? Of all places 🤣. What's wrong with our bodies, seriously.

@notyetamumbuttrying yep it never ends. Good luck for Tuesday ♥️
@juno231 it's dead weird honestly, they pump you full of CO2 to get a better view of your bits and bobs inside so they can manoeuvre better with the tools and that. It has nowhere to escape to so it gets trapped and the pain refers to your shoulder for some bizarre reason. It is sore though. Really not pleasant. The peppermint tea etc helps as well as a hot water bottle. & see above re lactulose 😅X

Thank you!! @Kirky658 have heard about the shoulder pain as I'm on that endo group on fb that you recommended. You've prob seen my posts if you're still on it?!

@Kirky658 must be the same mechanism as in ectopics where it causes shoulder pain as well 🤔

Just ordered the new fitbit charge 4... gonna be obsessing soon 🤣🤣🤣 can't believe I've been up since 5 an and no nap!

@bez91 I'm going to have to Google that! But they didn't even test that on me as far as I know? What's your FSH? They seem to take a lot of notice of that.

Hi gang!!

Work done for the week so just flying through the old thread, did I miss anything exciting?
Been doing the Clearblue ov tests and gone from low fertility to peak? Very random! Also early as I'm only CD11!
This is supposed to be month off as got the hysteroscopy on Wednesday!

Thank you as always for the lovely new bus @Minster2012 😘😘😘

@Haiyaa I'm so sorry I've just read your sad news 😢💕 thinking of you xxx

Static face this morning finally, same cycle day as the last few months so I'm not miraculously cured by a course of acupuncture after all 👎🏼👎🏼 oh well!

Have definitely had more sex this cycle (and not done yet!) so I still have some hope but less than I did have!

I'd just like the weather to warm up now thanks, over the cold!

Sorry was a bit absent last night, was just chilling!

Also might be a bit absent today & tomorrow as got my sending Covid jab this morning
Hope everyone is good x

@Kirky658 trapped gas in your shoulder 🤯 that does sound bloody painful but suppose it makes sense if you're being 'inflated'

@paintfairy I'm not sure if it's just a fancier word for Estrogen so I'm still no further to diagnosing myself 🙈 FSH was 8.2 U/l which seems to be in ok limits although perhaps a little high for my age 🤷‍♀️

@larrythelizard yayy to the static but it is disheartening when things aren't changing the way you want them to. The weather is grim it really affects my mood especially on weekends, hope we get some sunshine soon!

@Minster2012 hope all goes well for your vaccine and you don't end up feeling too shitty!

@notyetamumbuttrying I'll now try to figure out who you are 🤣 it's a great group.

@minster2012 hope you don't feel too poorly after the jab x

Morning ladies, sorry I've been absent...ive been back to work this week getting stuff sorted for reopening etc and getting my team prepped, it's nice to actually be working again tbh! And when I've not been working I've been trying to make the most of the few days left with DD and OH which means lots of trips to the park haha!

@Minster2012 thanks for the new bus ride driver 😉 and wahooo for Ov on Monday! So now your in the TWW 💪🤞🤞 xx

@Haiyaa I'm so sorry to read your update lovely!! 💔 be gentle to yourself and give yourself whatever you need to get through this time xx

I hope everyone else is OK?? And bodies are behaving lol! Il try and keep up with this bus but I have to admit it's been nice for ttc to take a back seat in my brain atm, no tracking anything just using cm as a signal and using an opk when watery or ewcm :) but nothing yet. Probably going to wait til gyne have a plan for me xx

So quickly reading with breakfast...why did DH need to make peace meal kebabs @Franklydear ?? Seem to have missed that! But sound good!

@bez91 yay fir getting the results! And hopefully ovulating, let's hope the bloods show so and you get proper answers

I'm not gonna lie this lap sounds horrendous @notyetamumbuttrying @Juno231 @Kirky658 but glad there's good advise flying around! Ouch for the shoulder and constipation, that's never a problem I have 🤪

@Dollybird89 ooooo you can join @Juno231 & some of the others in Fitbit challenges 🙌🏻

@blackcurrantqueen you know what ppl are gonna say 🍆but that's the question with the hsg, though it could work well????

@larrythelizard so CD21 again? I mean surely consistent is good though right?? And after sunshine yesterday where it was just jumper weather we've had a frost this morning!! It's stupid 😂

@Hopeful110 yes!! Hopefully first proper one ever! 🥰

@bez91 estrodil is estrogen it's what I take during ivf yep it's just the same xx

Thank you for the well wishes on the jab btw, I have been discussing it with DH as if all the Astra Zeneca stuff from the news had come out before my first jab I wouldn't have been allowed it (mine is AZ) as I have "sticky blood" & have had 2 blood clots before. 😬 I'm not actually worried instead pleased we didn't know but am taking a precautionary blood thinning injection tonight & tomorrow night that I take for flights of over 4 hours & def taking it easy so yeah hmmmmm

@Kirky658 I'll doubt you'll find me now, lot of activity on that group! Those two women who always respond are incredible! The one with the penguin for a profile pic has responded to me each time, she's flipping fantastic!
@Minster2012 good luck with the second dose! Good idea with the precautionary steps hun xx

@Minster2012 on the jab, the risk is higher on the flight, or the pill, only the clots are more troublesome, taking precautions is good, on dh, we had a disagreement on parenting style, he tried to get ds to do something, got him stressed about it, so it didn’t happened, at one point I had enough, stopped the activity and sent ds to watch iPad, dh saw that as a reward, but you can’t get an stressed autistic to do anything, it just gets everyone frustrated, and he got grumpy, unlucky for him fw is supposed to be over, fine, be grumpy, and then kebab arrived so, all is good

@notyetamumbuttrying I deffo gave up. Not going to lie 🤣 yeah the older lady Linda was the one who helped me, there were a lot less ladies on the group back then but she's had endo for well over 4p years and basically spent her life researching it so what she doesn't know isn't worth knowing!

@Kirky658 haha I thought it'd be a struggle without knowing my name 😂 I'll likely post again after my op so when I'll do, I'll let you know on here and let you know what I say so that you can spot me 😉
Linda is defo all knowing isn't she! It's Marcia that's been responding to me. Those files are fab too! Gonna read a couple again before Tuesday. Nice to feel fully prepared for it.