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? 🐣

@notyetamumbuttrying I did have endo found and removed both times- can’t quite remember where from though! A few places haha. The first time I had ablation which it just grew back from but had excision the second time in May 2019 (a month before my wedding for bad timing!) and it seems to have been better for longer since having it removed properly. Worth getting done!

@blackcurrantqueen the same thing has just happened to me with the clear blue! From low to peak in a day! Going to try to cover it from today with dtd but nothing has happened up to now haha because of endo pain. I normally have ov on around day 17 and today is CD11 which is very different.

Been shopping for more kitten stuff today - all ready to bring them home on Monday we are ready to spoil them! It’s been rainy here otherwise would have done gardening, really miserable here today though.

Decided to ask my gp to refer me to gynae just in case it’s needed because the lists can be crazy. Just better to get the ball rolling at least. Pain has been a little better today thank goodness- going to have to get DTD in like mad to cover it if my ovulation may be earlier than normal! I think I have another day or so at least though based on the non clear blue tests.

Hope you are all having a good weekend!

@notyetamumbuttrying are you worried about anaesthetic? Sorry I've not followed. I've had about twelfty million, all fine, even though I'm prone to sickness all fine for me, you'll be great 😘nothing to worry bout

@notyetamumbuttrying I'm good thanks, a bit paranoid about headaches. Need to stop using 'blood sugar levels' as an excuse to eat alll the carbs and sugar, piling on weight at an alarming rate 😂😂😂

@Ltay2 oh it's not scary, an osteopath makes very tiny movements on baby's head and it somehow does all sorts of wonderful things!

@Vil10 I hope I'm here either preggers or with a new baby still chatting shit when you're back on it!

I'm CD19 @blackcurrantqueen - LP has been 7 ish days and hoping to get to double digits. Deffo felt hornier and boobs more sore this peak so I am hoping that's an increase of progesterone levels which I have google diagnosed as my problem! Hmm maybe acupuncture has done what it needed for you and this is it?! 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼pls deffo not technically pregnant until after the TWW!! Although I know nothing about a hysterocopy so probably ignore me!

@Minster2012 pleased your jab went ok 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Heyyy guyssss, sorry been very absent and not entirely sure how much I've missed!! I've caught up on @Minster2012 ovulating 🥳
Any other big announcements? I'll try and stay tuned but due date is Monday so god knows what I'll be doing next week 😳

Annoying newbie coming to take her spot here. So full of hope just waiting to be dashed. Currently in the can’t-think-of-anything-else-but-ovulating

I’ll sit at the front of the bus and annoy the teacher.

Hi @pennysays, ticket price is an embarrassing story, no teachers, the driver is @Minster2012
And we need your background, did you mean to imply that people measure time by anything other than cycles ?

@2020mission great anaesthetic story 😂
@Vil10 ooh good to know about the smelly wee, won't have to panic then 🤪
@Billythecat good to hear! Do you think it's having an effect on your fertility now?
@Minster2012 no not worried about it. Was just saying I've never had it before and I can't wait for the great sleep I'll get lol! Was also hoping it'd curb my appetite and help kick start some weight loss but @Vil10 said it was opposite for her 😂 but then @2020mission said she couldn't eat so we'll see come Tuesday for me!
@larrythelizard oh gosh me too with the weight gaining! So easily done in lockdowns and also ttc, all the "treats" you need for coming on 🤦🏾‍♀️ adding up after 19 months of this bullshit 😆
@pennysays hi 👋🏾 welcome aboard! Eagerly awaiting your embarrassing story 😜

@Franklydear well I hope driver @Minster2012 is looking forward to my endless monologue about all the facts I have on cervical mucus. You can’t escape the class swot on a bus.

Backstory: Already have a threenager and on cycle 2 of trying for the sequel. Loooong and irregular periods which is making tracking ovulation my mastermind subject. Probably still about 10 ten away from ovulation. But mostly don’t have a frigging clue. Can mostly be found waving opk sticks in people faces screaming “IS THIS A POSITIVE?!”

@Franklydear my embarrassing story, is yet to come. How do I explain needing to leave my forthcoming weekend away with my siblings in order to get inseminated? Shall I just bring it with me in a zip lock?

@paintfairy yes 😆 I've just turned 30. Thanks for your knowledge - appreciate it 💕

@Vil10 ahh that sounds a nightmare with the holiday it's all 'what's ifs' isn't it 😫

@DKDK123 thanks for the recommendation on the woebot 👍🏼 will have to check that out, had a real down day today which isn't me and spent most of the day on the sofa so I think I need something to give me some chill

Oh no wait I do have an embarrassing story but not about ovulation!

After getting frisky in the living room, I forgot to clean away the enormous dildo we use as a fun prop.

The next day the cleaner comes and finds it and gingerly hands it back to me. I was MORTIFIED!

At least she made a joke about it saying she “wished she had more of that in her life”!

Ugh. So awful.

@larrythelizard love a good google diagnose!! I think I have alll the problems!! 🤣 so a short LP is bad, so what about an LP of 16days? Is that also bad?? What does new swot @pennysays say?! Welcome newbie! Sorry might be bit absent tonight, second Covid jabs today & bit lifeless plus now eating MASSIVE Chinese so prob will be comatose on food baby later 🤣😂

@blodyn91 LITERALLY CANT BELIEVE YOU ARE DUE ON MONDAY!! (And you've still been exercising madly all this time!)

So @pennysays we have many a hope dashed here but many of us still in that can't think of anything else stage. Except food. And sex toys. Oooo I should post my CM pic from last Monday and ask you if that means I ovulated THAT day or the static smiley day 2 days before?? 🤔🤷🏼‍♀️😬on the embarrassing story well that might not be good enough see!! And also it's possible one of our ladies did get pregnant from insemination methods (heterosexual) so that's a possibility though the semen has to be kept at body temperature so you (or he) better be hugging it 🤣and surely use a pot?!

We are also starting watching fatal attraction, as both DH & I have never seen it (though we know the premise). He's just asked me "if I were to cheat on you would you be angrier if she were prettier than you or uglier?"

Errrrrr either scenario would NOT end well LOVE??

@pennysays btw most of our embarrassing stories are not about TTC! Just stories in general 🤣😬

So you are now onboard! Welcome & take your cm covered seat 🙌🏻😊

@Billythecat I'm CD11 today so we are twins ! Ha

@DKDK123 I'm a highly anxious person so THANK YOU for recommending woebot. I'm downloading is as we speak ❤️

@pennysays welcome - I love you already! You'll fit right in

@larrythelizard I hope so too🤞🏼

@blodyn91 I cannot believe you're due on Monday!! That how absolutely flown! I also can't believe I have been on this bus for a whole pregnancy and then some😂

@pennysays welcome lovely xx

@bez91 it really is! So frustrating!! I just want to know whether I should pre book our room and seats on the plane but then if it gets cancelled we won't get that money back, if we leave it too late we'll have a shit room facing the back on the hotel and I'd hate that!

Looking into Woebot! Might recommend it to my friend! @Vil10 I'm not sure about packing away those winter clothes tomorrow it's snowing here 🤷🏼‍♀️

@Minster2012 it snowed here last night too! Proper snow!! I regret Swapping my clothes around now!

@Minster2012 I've only just realised the thread title mentions the cat poo 😂😂

How is everyone this fine morning 😁
Happy to report af only stayed for 8days!!!! And even happier that I got pornstar worthy 🍆 last night and again this morning lol 🤣 that is a rarity for me .. it's so nice just stating that I'm only at cd9! Woohoo!

@minster2012 how you feeling today?

@dkdk123 I'm deffo up for joining the fitbit squad 💪💪

Welcome to the newbies

Yep @lucyrp in honour of the last convo I had to get it in as lots of you were talking bout it had to maintain SOME of our silliness 🤣🐈‍⬛PLUS it makes it great now @Billythecat is getting her kittens tomorrow too 💩

@Vil10 my bbc weather still says no snow & 10 degrees it totally denies it's existence and it's sticking around so yup we'll have it worse too! I'm in a ss t shirt dress and leggings as it was jumper weather here yesterday. Wtf! And we have no logs left!

@Dollybird89 8 days that's fantastic for you!! MUCH better than 5 weeks 🙌🏻👏🏻and then great 🍆yayyyy!! Get in there girl! I feel sluggish (might be the monster Chinese I ate!) and have dead arm but other than that ok I think thank u, I've been taking paracetamol consistently since as my nursey friend's recommendation to stave off anything so feel pretty ok (might not tell DH that as he's meant to be on toddler duty 🤣)

@pennysays loving your description of threenager & sequel I have v active nearly 3 yr old too so know that feeling! Also your story reminds me of a similar one for my friend...my best friend carried my boy for us as a surrogate & one weekend we looked after her 2 kids so her & her hubby could have a weekend away but they stayed in a luxury b&b near to us in the end & she sent me a latest "bump shot" and I said "that's lovely darling, you look fab, could you possibly do another without the rampant rabbit in the shot so I can show our family please Cos I can't even crop that out" 🤣😂the even FUNNIER thing was the whole b&b had a power cut in the night & someone went into each room to inspect it & it (& as she called it their "fun bag of goodies") was open with lots of toys to see 😝. I said I'm sure they've seen worse and did you then say to them "and the baby isn't even his, OR MINE?" As she was 6 months pregnant at that stage so it was very obvious!

@DKDK123 @Juno231 anxiety central over here, so I'll take a look also! Maybe that's a factor!? It should be on your fertility form maybe........ 🤔

@Dollybird89 oh that's much better 🙌 and yay for the D!

DH went round friend's garden yesterday, of course it was only for a few hours and then he would be home.... Nope
Midnight he's ringing the doorbell, f*cked off his face, showing me his bleeding hand where's he's fallen over. Strips naked and then goes into the garden to put bloody bird seed out 🤦🏼‍♀️
Trouble is I fully expect this behaviour to continue in a few weeks when baby is here... How do we get men to grow up?