A dozen eggs collected in a box, waiting to hatch, someone call the sperminator! TTC bus 40

[Minster2012]

Welcome back to the bus where anything goes, hop aboard, tell us about you & we’ll be here for you (there’s a song in there somewhere!).

This bus has a growing bunch of gorgeous black and white springy pups on board, tortoises & 2 feisty little kittens so bring your pets and pictures are obligatory 🤗.

We’ve got TTC happening 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!

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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
jan 7 BFPs
February 8 BFPs
March 5 BFPs
April 5 BFPs - @Minster2012, @Asthenia @2020mission
@Hopeful110 @katiekatty

So into May we go, and plenty going on...

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In addition I'm weird and bloaty and a bit crampy. I'm only 3 or 4 DPO so assume it's AF preparing to let rip on Sunday. Annoying! Apps seems to think I ovulated the latest ever date this month, at least I know it's nothing I've done as it was all the same as the last few months...!

How are you going @notyetamumbuttrying when is your next milestone/event?

Second vaccine done, now back to work, I am going to slack today big time

Ah @minster2012 sorry to hear you are spotting. The bus will be waiting for when you are ready to get back in the driving seat. Take some time, look after yourself. Here if u need anything xx

Dont know if yous remember, I was saying my last af felt like the 1st propler 1 since mmc. No spotting, constant flow for the 3/4 days. Prior to that it was spotting, 3 days light. That was it. Well (yes I'm clutching onto anything I can here ) but every month I'd get really strong sharp ovulation twinges. Kinda sore pains. I never really got b4 mmc. Get the odd twinge here and there sometimes nothing, but never that sharp. Looking back. The month I conceived I'd none. Nothing noted, even symptom spotting during the tww, every month b4 and after that month the signs were strong, sore nipples, feeling every twinge. The month I conceived I'd hardly any symptoms. So I'm hoping and praying that the no twinges are a good sign. I had ewcm yesterday and a jump in RHR today so 🤞
Dtd every day bar Monday over the last wk or so. So heres hoping 🙈

🤞🏼🤞🏼 for your @2alreadywantanother

That's a good milestone @Franklydear!

@2alreadywantanother everything crossed for you lovely.

@larrythelizard hey lovely, I'm ok thanks apart from AF being due today so have pains. Just booked in my vaccine for Sunday 😬 my hospital said it was fine as long as it's not close to egg collection and the estimate for that is end of May so went for it! Feel a bit reckless 🙈
Surely you won't come on on Sunday if you're only 3 or 4 dpo today? Xx

I think that sounds good, end of May ages away @notyetamumbuttrying! My luteal phase is usually 9ish DPO but looks like I might be on for 6 or 7 this cycle. Also massively nauseous this afternoon, I was last cycle so assume it's just progesterone symptoms.

What about you @Crazydoglady123, when do you get to test? Presumably two weeks after implantation?

@larrythelizard do you take extra progesterone to lengthen your luteal phase? Hope the nausea passes soon ♥️

Nope I would like some but no idea where I'd get some from, had some day 21 bloods last month which apparently had my progesterone as 'lower end of normal' but don't really understand it! This seems to be the potentially shortest luteal phase ever though!!

Just got my new appointment through for infertility clinic.... 31st July. Totally bummed it's over 2months away but I'm hoping I'll have some decent data from my Dodgy periods to give them

Oh @Dollybird89 that's ages off. As you say at least you can take some good data to them

@larrythelizard did they actually give you a number for the progesterone? If not make sure you get it as I've seen quite a few ladies now be told it's fine when it's not!

@Dollybird89 gosh july! hopefully there will be cancellations and it gets brought forward?

@2alreadywantanother you know what, same for me, that was the one month nothing happened, and nothing so far at 8-9 dpo (guessing) but I don't dare hope

@juno231 my last appointment was for may 28 and that got cancelled so I'm not holding any hope

I think he said 15.9 @Juno231 (I have it written down somewhere), but google didn't really help me decipher it. I might speak to my GP as that was all private so presumably I could go on the list for tests via the GP again at some point?

Is anyone good at AMH understanding?

Got my result back today at 52 (I'm 27) but I'm middle of being diagnosed with PCOS but from what I can gather on internet (dr google) it needs to be a bigger number to be an indicator? It says things like around 72 or above 🤔 I haven't the foggiest as the range reading shows it's normal for my age 🙈

Starting to feel headachy and nauseus, so I decided to go home, last time I felt proper shit and I rather be home if that's gonna happen, it may not, but bossboy wasn't there and the other manager is much more softy so i took the chance

Aww @Franklydear I was hoping the second dose wouldn't hit as hard as the first! I better warn my husband as he's due his next AstraZeneca in a couple of weeks 😅 glad you got to go home so you can take it easy.

@franklydear it's so hard not to have some hope. I have hope every month. But definitely feeling more positive the more it goes on if that makes sense. Stopped opks and bbt. Feck it they weren't working for me anyway lol

@2020mission the nurses warned me that it probably would, I got tomorrow off do I can chill

@Dollybird89 I hope you get answers soon
@2alreadywantanother I seem to be able to find hopeful signs every time,...

@larrythelizard see that sounds really low? normally they say it needs to be over 30 to confirm ovulation - and even the lowest limit they'll accept is 16 I think. I'd definitely push back on that!

@larrythelizard I'm sure it has to be at over 30 to confirm ovulation ... I think from what I remember. Mine was 0.4 when I had it tested🙄

But you conceived @lucyrp?

The dr I spoke to was really quite dismissive about progesterone @Juno231 it does perhaps sounds like I'm not ovulating.

Right I'm going to contact the GP tomorrow and try and get that ball rolling, hopefully they'll let me as I've been trying 8mo and I'm almost 35...