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!

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

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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...

🤞🏻💓😘🥳🙌🏻

@Crazydoglady123 yes, 9 babies coming up 😂 well, potentially...

Thank you. I think the statistics are one in three make it to day 5 so potentially we could have 3 by Saturday 🤞

@Madeoftea congratulations 🥳 I'm wanting to test at 10dpo too so this gives me hope that something will show should it be positive. So happy for you!!
@kaylsd I use Flo. So frustrating that AF hasn't shown yet hun.
@Crazydoglady123 🥳 3 by Saturday would be mega 🙏🏾

@Madeoftea congratulations, that's great for 10dpo

@Crazydoglady123 wowzer what good little eggies 🥚

@kaylsd I use fertility friend and ovia -
I don't know why I use both 🙈 it's good to compare I suppose and seems to give me a larger range of probabilities so I don't get hung up on certain things 😆

Hey...can I join please?

I'm 36 (for another 3 weeks!) and we're finally starting to TTC #2 this month (once AF shows up). I have a 2 year old DS who took 11 cycles to conceive, probably due to Endometriosis as I've recently been diagnosed. I also have low AMH but my FSH/LH are both fine and good for my age. I'm not expecting it to happen quickly so I may be around for a while

Omg yes! @Madeoftea eeek! Ahhhh! Congrats ✨✨✨

@kaylsd I used both fertility friend and flo and both were good, I preferred FF though.

@Crazydoglady123 ahhh yay! That's so good well done! Exciting x

@polkadotpixie hey, welcome 🤗 have you had a lap done now? I'm 3 weeks post mine and now in the tww and hoping for my first ever bfp! 🤞🏾
Hopefully it will be a short ride for you!!

@polkadotpixie Hope you'll leave soon! (If that doesn't make you feel welcome, I don't know what will 😂)

Ooh that sounds positive @Crazydoglady123, looking forward to your day three update!

If you end up buying the clear blue game boy one @Tornado2Inc let me know as I have a load of sticks for it I can't use as I have the wand one and I could post them to you.

@kaylsd I'm now using natural cycles, fertility friend and clue! All seem to predict ovulation slightly differently but will see what happens by the end of the cycle (first time using all three!)

Welcome @polkadotpixie, I also hope you're a one stop wonder!

@Madeoftea yayyyyyyy congrats!!!!

@larrythelizard I am actually torn between the game boy and Mira! Mira looks super fancy (and pricey, for that matter), but as I'm here to stay... 😂 Plus, looks like they are going to release other tests you can use with the device such as progesterone (hello, poas for 40 weeks 🤣), so I am really torn! Will see how I feel after this cycle and might splurge if I get grumpy enough 🤷🏼‍♀️

Thanks for the welcome everyone

@notamumyetbuttrying I've not actually had a lap yet. It was diagnosed via MRI as I have an endometrioma on my right ovary and visible Endometriosis in the Pouch of Douglas between my uterus and rectum. Fingers crossed your lap has done the trick and you'll get your BFP this cycle. I got pregnant with DS literally days after I had an HSG and I 100% believe it was due to the dye clearing out some scarring from my Endo as I've always had extremely painful periods so I think I've always had it but undiagnosed. They've actually got much better following pregnancy so hoping it's not as bad as it was and we won't have to TTC for so long this time

Great news @Crazydoglady123!!! Look forward to more updates and a successful transfer at the weekend!

Welcome @polkadotpixie good to have you onboard but before the conductor arrives you should know the price of admission is an embarrassing story 😊

@Minster2012 neither would I but it's so unusual for me to spot for that long! Full flow started last night/this morning so pretty much back to normal cycle length but just more days spotting😂 how're you anyway??

@Madeoftea lovely news! Congratulations❤️

@Crazydoglady123 amazing!! How exciting!!!

@polkadotpixie welcome!! Hope it's a short journey for you x

So I've had such an emotional rollercoaster this last day or two, af arrived so that deffo explains it but was with friends on Saturday, one of which is 37 weeks with her 3rd, and when everyone had had a drink the "who will be next" questions came up, and I had a whole bombarding of "it'll be you, 100%, you were made to be a mum, you're amazing with our babies, it'll be you", and I really don't know how I kept it together I just kept saying "in time it will be, what will be will be", then followed an hours convo on how the others conceived and how some are going to start trying for their 1st and 2nd. OH picked me up later in the night and I kept it together, I got in bed whilst he walked the dogs and he came back to me taking my makeup off sobbing, he was so supportive and told me next time to tell them to piss off and stop pushing their lives on us, he's one of those men who doesn't like showing their emotions but I could tell on Saturday just how hard this situation has been on him, majority of his friends are parents, he's godfather to 5 of them, I just felt like such a failure!! I've put my big girl pants on today though and keep telling myself it'll happen when we least expect it and we'll be the best parents, it's just hard to see that when it doesn't happen as quickly for you as it does for others!!

So I apologise for the pity party😂😂 hope everyone has a lovely day❤️

@Madeoftea that's brilliant!!! First BFP for may yesss 🥰😘🙌🏻🥳🥳🥳how did OH react?!

@Crazydoglady123 BOOM that's fantastic yesssssss so happy come on embryos!! 🤞🏻and what a result for OH on his birthday

@kaylsd yep I do that's exactly how I feel! But mehhhhh, thats frustrating about no AF yet, come on end this cycle!! I was recommended to use Premom over Femometer try that maybe?

@polkadotpixie hello and welcome! Seems a good group for you some of us have clung together for a verrrry long time 🤣yes and embarrassing story please doesn't have to be about TTC

@Vil10 that's really tough, you did so well gorgeous, just say to ppl "maybe after our trip you can't do that with a baby "🙄 and you know it will happen darling maybe whilst you are away! Who knows!

The bus pulls over for a bleak looking soul. Pennysays stomps on the bus, dragging her flamethrower behind her. Takes place at the back of the bus with all the others wearing too much eyeliner. Lends flamethrower to @kaylsd to go and scorch the front gardens of errant in-laws.

12dpo, BBT spiking after having been weirdly low, boobs feel like rockets about to launch from my chest and cheapie tests are on BFN, am anemotional mess, so as @bez91's meme on the previous thread says FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCKING FUCK. Feels good to have you lot to confide in.

Congrats @Madeoftea! Our first may BFP.

@Madeoftea ohh congratulations 🎉 😃

Aww @Vil10 sorry your friends spent so long talking about that, it must have been tough. It really will happen for you and I know you'll be pleased you held off and got your Thailand holiday in first! There's really no rush for you. I'm sure some of your friends who have babies are quietly jealous of your freedom right now and will be of the holiday too 😅 we always keep saying we're glad we had our years of holidays just the 2 of us as they really will be totally different with kids!

@pennysays you be careful with that bloody flamethrower! (Though I might borrow it occasionally when @kaylsd is done with it!) 12dpo is early for cheapies for you know how sensitive they are? Stay with us darling there's plenty of hope dry those smeared eyes 😬

@Vil10 what @2020mission says is right, they are prob jealous too 😘

@polkadotpixie I had it there as well, as well as on my uteral ligaments. Yeah it's hard to diagnose so often gets missed! How long did ttc last time? We're on month 20 now and starting ivf imminently!
@Vil10 aww so sorry hun, it's bloody tough isn't it! Especially when it's your friends and you wanna scream at them about what's really going on but you don't want them knowing such personal information and then pressure of them knowing. I'm glad you're alright now tho hun. Big hugs xx
@pennysays sorry hun, it's shit isn't it!! That meme was fantastic wasn't it!

I'm hopping on up top with caffeine and wine. Not quite ready to fully step up to ttc but gonna linger around. Thanks for the new bus Minster2012

Oh @Vil10 that's really tough, your DP is right though that they should back off and leave you alone. It will happen for you and when it does you'll realise that it's happened at the right time for you x

@pennysays can I borrow the flame thrower to torch some annoying people please??

@polkadotpixie welcome !!!
@Tornado2Inc that made me laugh 😂

@Crazydoglady123 yay for egglets, so exciting !!!!

@Vil10 I get you, on every level. I'm here for your pity party. That is shit and you did so well to keep it together 💕

So, a tmi one, I have very light short periods, but the last two cycles I've found sort of CD7/8/9 I get this weird very watery but slightly old blood stained discharge. Is this normal?

I'm having a rough time at the moment but I am here reading and rooting for all of you!

CD 9 today and ready to get this cycle over with, except for I'm not really talking to OH which is an obvious issue in terms of DTD 😂

@blackcurrantqueen I also have short and light periods (despite the Endo) but find the brownish spotting drags on forever afterwards, I can have brownish CM almost up to ovulation until the EWCM kicks in. I've had a scan and a Colposcopy and everything was normal so I think it's just the way I am

I'll rack my brains for an embarrassing moment...I'm sure there's plenty I've tried to block out!

Urgggh @Vil10 that's mega tough, you did amazing to keep it together. People just don't get it unless they've been there themselves, they're usually the ones who stay quiet in those situations.

@blackcurrantqueen I think the discharge is ok, can you ask GP? You sound like me and DH atm which isn't ideal approaching FW 🤦🏼‍♀️ I'm still sour with him for not showing me any sympathy when I was ill 😂