Of course it takes a village when you're dealing with fertility f*ckery TTC bus 41

[larrythelizard]

Ding Ding

Agency bus driver here so expect driving past the normal bus stops, someone incapable of working the ticket machine and definitely no change given!

In all seriousness I really hope I have all the right names in the right places!

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 the boss' blog then blame these guys they made me do it...#shamelessplug

minstermusings.co.uk for the blog that’s where the full stuff happens
& minstermusings on insta - some of our ladies have made special anonymous accounts so we can link up via minster 🥰
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 she 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
April 5 BFPs

So into May we go, and plenty going on...
2 May @madeoftea @crazydoglady

🤞🏻💓😘🥳🙌🏻

Taking up their seats & buckling up...

@Franklydear
@Vil10 - here for ride, not of the TTC kind for now!
@Michellescarn
@lexber
@MoominC
@amy2503
@2alreadywantanother
@JJ93
@Jam291
@InkyPaper
@bez91
@haiyaa
@minthumbugs
@Katao
@larrythelizard
@DKDK123
@pennysays
@Dollybird89
@justwant2beamum
@EllieAdam
@Hopeful110
@blackcurrantqueen
@clolo
@MessyBob89
@DKDK123
@amy2503
@kaylesd
@ArrrMeHearties
@wicketbasket
@Billythecat
@Messybob89
@tornado2Inc
@sausage1990
@Minster2012
@KayL1988

IVF/IUI/ICSI /clomid passengers as well as TTC on the side!
@somatronic
@unCliche
@clolo
@notyetamumbuttrying
@katao
@Dollybird89
@MartyMcShy
@juno231
@paintfairy
@gensola
@Sunbird84
@babyghirl

Newly promoted to the bump list!
@madeoftea
@crazydoglady123

Bumps & babies who want to keep track of us 👀
@clairey844
@Missgoldilocks
@lucyrp
@KateColx
@blodyn91
@Catherinettc - shout out for Caolan
@Busybee143
@Ltay2
@BlondePotter
@Clairey844
@Gem176
@kirky658
@Hollie657
@justanothercyster
@DJmum83
@Thinkingandblinking
@florence13
@2020mission
@Asthenia
@Hopeful110
@katiekattty

Sorry just catching up but CONGRATULATIONS @blackcurrantqueen, 🎉🎉🎉 hoping this is the one for you! Are you just having progesterone or aspirin too? Did you tell your acupuncturist as they can change the points to what mine called “support and hold” to try and nourish and keep everything cozy for baby.

Foreign ladies yes 🤣🤦🏼‍♀️get you a caramac

Head is fine 🙌🏻

Good news on the CB @blackcurrantqueen, hopefully that reasurres you you just a little 🤞

What a relief from the breast clinic @polkadotpixie now you can focus on ttc, dont write yourself off yet if you only manged once this cycle as it only takes one successful swimmer!

Loving the rainbow tip @Minster2012, rubbish about the favourite undies but I'd take that as a sign that you get to go treat yourself to some nice new ones 😉

Hey ladies, I'm sorry I've been quiet. It's taken me ages to find this because Mumsnet logged me out! Still no bfp and don't think it will be this month as OH has been poorly and stressed so the dates don't really quite add to. How are you all??? xxxxx

Hi all I've been in hiding for some time as I just gave up and stopped tracking, the healthy healthy diet, supplements, vitamins and everything id been doing, thanks though to thread starters for keeping tagging me. Felt had a plethora of friends and family all getting pregnant and the constant 'whens no2' 'only child lonely child' was too much.
@blackcurrantqueen I think I remember from an earlier thread you and I were ovulation 'buddies' so huge congratulations!! I think l am joining you with the BFP... tested this morning randomly as am period should be due tomorrow but had a teeny bleed yesterday then nothing else. Have done 2 tests as thats all I had in house and got this, is it too light to get excited yet?

Not too light, a line is a bfp regardless of how light or dark, your small bit of bleeding may have been implantation bleeding, congratulations @michellescarn 😊

@blackcurrantqueen ahhhh I'm so chuffed for you to get your BFP! so many congratulations to you!! 🥳🌈
@MichelleScarn congratulations lovely! Thats not a light line...very visible! 🎉🤗

@Minster2012 so glad you had a lovely evening!! You deserve it!! But dam bleeding!! And in your faves!!

@larrythelizard my OH took it so well, he said "it only seems right and fair, I'll have ice baths, keep my phone in my back pocket, and I'll get skinny from having no protein, but suppose it'll be worth it" so dramatic😂😂

@MichelleScarn congratulations!! Very visible line too!!

So, I have a slightly uncomfortable pinching pain to my right ovary area, according to my Fitbit ovulation is in 4 days, but I had loads of ewcm last week, so think I might've ovulated early, so now thinking what could this pinching be🙄

@MichelleScarn ooh not too light at all! Get a FRER! Congratulations, how lovely that you and @blackcurrantqueen are BFP buddies :)

@Minster2012 boo to bleeding but fab outfit and yay to gin! Big hugs and lots of love from me xxx

@paintfairy yeah as soon as I posted I knew I had miscalculated as I thought I was CD14 was actually CD16 (I used my dates to remember your cycle as you were just a day or two behind and then usually ovulate early). Fingers crossed you won't have to do an IUI, I don't think spotting this early on means anything x

I've just hared down to the chemist and bought a clear blue, and says 1-2 weeks! I'm in shock just broke news to dh as he was starting work and think he's now lost power of speech, we've been trying for over 2 years now so am excited but very very trepidatious. Worrying now about what/when to tell work as work for nhs...
@Vil10 this pinchiness was atypical for me every ovulation but I only realised thats what it was when I knew thats what it was if you know what I mean?

Not "atypical' a typical symptom! (I hate my phone!)

@Juno231 I think the spotting just means I'm broken. 🙄
@Minster2012 I thought we'd suddenly got new people on the bus with hot fireman husbands! 😂 I'm pleased you had a good night out. Sometimes that really does help. The fuckboy body does not, but it has to end soon!

@MichelleScarn lovely news!! Congratulations!! I always get ovulation pains but these aren't the same, and I think I ovulated last week, probably fake and I'm really ovulating this weekend😂 who knows with our bodies!!

@vil10 it could be follicles rubbing or something similar!

@MichelleScarn wow 2 years, you must be over the moon! You might as well take a long weekend and cuddle in blissful happiness

Am now back on and worry warting.. just because I couldn't believe it have done another 2 tests, just the cheap dip ones which now have no line.
Is it possible the clear blue and other 2 that did show positive are wrong?

@MichelleScarn did you do all the tests with the same pee? We're the earlier positives first urine but the recent ones not?? Xxx

Thanks kay positive tests were first thing this morning about 600, negative ones almost 4 hrs later so different pee. I probably shouldn't have retested, but am still in shock - well I was!

@Vil10 'I'll get skinny from having no protein" 😂 guys really are dramatic. Tell him at least he can bulk back up easily enough you're the one that draws the short straw putting on the weight during pregnancy which is far harder to loose than him putting back on!

@MichelleScarn your pee may be more diluted now that's why they say do it with fmu as its more concentrated. I know its hard especially after a 2 year wait but take a deep breath step away from the sticks today and don't try for 48 hours where your HCG levels should have doubled and line will probably be darker (don't freak if it's not tho, some people take longer for their levels to rise). Getting a positive on a clear blue is a good sign as they tend not to be as sensitive as some others.

I think AF is going to be a right bitch and arrive early this month just to annoy me as I have a dress to fit in for a wedding this weekend! AF not due till next week but already feeling the bloat this morn and just munched 3 biscuits in my usual 1/2 days before AF 'I need to eat ALL the chocolate' sugar cravings. Ugh she is so NOT welcome! 🙄

Hi, been away a while trying to get my head around everything, so congratulations to the new BFPs, and to everyone who’s had bad news.
I also don’t like Caramacs.

The doctor’s managed to get hold of my histology results from the last miscarriage, so I’ve got an appointment with them on Monday to discuss, then one with the clinic on Weds to talk about trying again. I’m hoping the results show something we can do something about…
My body is still being weird, either I ovulated around CD6 when I had the EWCM, or I’m going to ovulate really late, as AF is due in 10 days and my LH is still on the floor (it was high on CD9 but gradually dropped and then stayed there ever since)

@MichelleScarn wow congratulations! After two long years! How wonderful to hear news news like this!

I agree with @DKDK123 - step away from the sticks!

@Minster2012 glad you had a fun night out! Sounded like great craic, other than the bleeding. Hope the head is OK now!

Agree with what dkdk said @MichelleScarn ... first morning urine is much stronger. It makes sense to hold off now and maybe test first thing again in a day or two.

Keep us updated - sending you lots of positive thoughts! Xx

30 cupcakes baked and iced ready to give out to family this weekend... Baked 2cakes ready for my lil mechanic and van to go onto once chilled and iced... I'm excited to do that later!! I'm bouncing off the walls today... Was woken up by OH for 🍆 at 6.30 and by 10 I was baking and drinking monster energy drink... Now I'm just coming down from a MAJOR sugar rush lol

That sucks about the bleeding @minster2012 but I'm glad you was able to go out and mostly have a good time 😁🍷

@MichelleScarn yessssssss that's brilliant more BFPs after long time!!! Yesss fab stuff! And no IUI! So happy for you

@Sunbird24 how are you feeling about the appointments? Would that have been CD6 after a negative result? Surely it can't have ovulate on cd6 god that's real fuck boy territory maybe just focus on the appointments and yes hope you get news you can do something about 🤞🏻

@Dollybird89 they look amazing ❤️you are so thoughtful

@Juno231 lolling at you thinking it was something else you foreigners missed 🤣no it was me drunken typing 😆no hot firefighters here sorry!!

I think I'm witnessing an affair on a dog walking field though, or at least 2 ppl (older ppl) DEF meeting up specifically on the field to have a kiss and a cuddle with no prying eyes having both furtively looked around before holding hands and walked away arm in arm & looked around again 👀before kissing

Ooooo errrrrr missus

In other news we have our first house viewing on Monday yeyyyyyyyy

On and SIL had her scan today
Obviously all well but as she thought from ovulating late baby measuring 10 and a bit weeks
Baby due on our wedding anniversary
As expected 2 weeks ahead of where I should have been

Winner winner chicken dinner

@Juno231 could be!

@larrythelizard hahaha how dramatic is that😂 that's what I said, said to him think of everything I'll have to put up with once pregnant!! Urghh af can do one!!

@Dollybird89 omg monster at 10am?? You're mental

@Minster2012 yesss to house viewings!!