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

@notyetamumbuttrying Thankyou!!

@larrythelizard yeah there's a tesco extra so I'll nip in tonight!

@Minster2012 you suffered through an hour of cold play?? You're a saint!

@bez91 so sorry for the bfn❤️

So, I woke up at 3am ready needing a wee and I held it all night so I could have a strong wee for testing😂 but I feel like the test looks the same as yesterday's? I'm not convinced☹️

@bez91 so sorry bout the BFN, good to have the appointment to focus on. Yes I had / scans at LGI & 1 at St James, my team is at st James they are fab

@Sausage1990 we def need pics of both hair & sewing please! And that's really good they've changed the RMC policy

@Vil10 there's def a line there though & seeing as you don't know what dpo you are but also what the tests are like you know the answer is FRER? Did you keep the wee?

Top was yesterday's, bottom is this mornings, my Fitbit app has me about 9/10dpo

@Minster2012 there's definitely something there isn't there! I didn't keep the wee no because I'm out at work/mums/gym today, but I'm going to nip into the chemist near to my mums and see if there's an frers but don't want to test later on in the day or after ive drank loads! I feel really periody this morning😩

Im almost a bit emotional looking at that @Vil10!

They're pretty good lines for that early for a cheapo test!!!

Time to get a FRER?!

Oh boo to the BFN @bez91.

@larrythelizard I have a plan, there's a Morrison's right next to my gym, selling 2x frer for £6!!! So I'm going to go before the gym, and might even do one in the Morrison's toilet before I drink loads at the gym😂

@Vil10 loving that plan (plus get us alllllll to Morrison's!) I'd want to know if I were you cos today's line is def there but maybe a bit closer to the control so I'd def want another to try 🤣🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

@Minster2012 oh good, 100 times easier I bet when your medical team are good!
We're at LGI quite often for DDs heart and they're just fantastic!

@Vil10 oooooo 🤔 👀 then lines are a bit strange a FRER won't be as ambiguous 🤞🏼

@Sausage1990 hi, happy your feeling better and on the way to some answers, the dietitian was great, she put my mind at ease as he has issues but he is doing great, she said that some gps put the level higher for autistic kids, he isn’t eating less fruit and veg that neurotypical kids
@Minster2012 does Coldplay has enough material for an hour or do they have it on repeat?🤨
@bez91 sorry darling it always stings
@Vil10 have you been wearing your glasses lately? That’s fantastic for a 10 dpo max
Nothing to report here, I think I got so good at spotting signs, that the problem, cos I’ve been noticing funny movements and cramps from about cd8, ewcm not quite there yet, and today is cd11, my usual ovulation day so... I am just gonna wait for af....

@bez91 I'm very fortunate, they've been keeping me alive 2011 now so they are fab 🤣but the bloody parking at LGI yesterday was a NIGHTMARE! The multi-storey was full and they are doing so much building work I couldn't find a spot then I found a spot but there was building work where the parking meter should have been 🤦🏼‍♀️I mean I only left 2 hours to get there on time and only just made it ffs. I hate hospital parking 😆

@Vil10 if you think you might be 9/10 dpo @Franklydear is right they are such good lines! Can you get the 6 days earlier ones?

@Franklydear Coldplay are very good at long instrumental bits so lots of them last a while 🙄I actually don't mind it, just about, but certainly wouldn't choose it 🤣

@Vil10 good plan with doing one before the gym, keep us posted please 🙏🏾

@Minster2012 I know right!! I just thought this morning there's a Morrison's so went on their website and there it was!! I'm just going to have my peppermint tea with my breakfast and nothing else and not wee and get to Morrison's for 10:30ish, but I won't have a pot so I'll need a good aim! Just checked and they're just the rapid response once not early ones ffs😩

@bez91 that's what I thought, going to get an frer this morning and poas in Morrison's toilets😂

@Franklydear hahahaha maybe you're right, I'm just panicking, I don't want to get ahead of myself! Just keep jumping on that 🍆 cover it girl

@notyetamumbuttrying I'll definitely keep you all updated!!

@Minster2012 it’s probably because of people like me they don’t let you choose, what would you like? Metallica, ac/dc, megadeth, anything like that? No, not Bon jovi....😂
School run done and now to lay on the sofa with Netflix, I am so knackered, that my brain were to could I be pregnant? even I know I am not ....

@Vil10 don’t worry, I am ahead for both of us, give some of your chill....

@Vil10 a test is still better than no test!

And alllll I'm seeing now on my feed are pregnancy tests 🤣

@Franklydear I dunno I guess it should be something relatively mellow as you are meant to not move 🤣Maybe a bit of porticos quartet? Have a lay down do what your body wants xx

@vil10 you nutter that is not only a stronger line than yesterday but such a good line for 9/10dpo!!

Well I got up for a wee at 3am and had lots of pink and red blood and a few little clots. I'm only 10DPO? This never happens to me. Still spotting this morning. Hoping it's a fluke and not AF showing up early...

@Juno231 ooh could be the ever allusive implantation bleeding!! 😬

@Minster2012 mainly, but just general bossboy shenanigans, he was moaning the other day that he eats too many take aways, due to lack of time to prepare food, so I helpfully suggested he batch cooks, or prepare in the evening everything for tomorrow, he says he can’t, he is busy, so my legendary line was: as the working mother of a disabled child, I wouldn’t know, 😂😲, he had no reply

@Juno231 omggg implantation???

Well I went to boots they had no frer but had boots early detection ones, rushed into Morrison's for a wee, and bfn😩 what is going on! I'm thinking indent or faulty tests

@Vil10 how sensitive are those? 25 or 10 ml?

Morning ladies. Been a little AWOL but trying to keep up reading in evenings or when I get 2 mins.. so busy here!
Heading into FW and decided not to use OPKs as I def got obsessed in first cycle 🤦🏽‍♀️ so trying cycle 2 au natural with maximum chill. I know with my general dates I'm due to ovulate end of weekend/Monday/Tuesday and we are going away tomorrow so time away just us...

Dtd last weekend Sat/Sun and then had a few days busy with my mums dog so looking forward to jumping him later when it's gone back home! It would be a bit hard work trying to Pee on a stick in a camper van.., 🤣🤣

Joined SW this morning, heavier than I'd have hoped BUT it's just a starting block so here's to a happier healthier month

@Juno231 10! TMI but just got in the car got a blob of wetness, thought it was af got to the gym and I was just piss wet through😂😂

@Lexber our dates are very similar again
@Vil10 what you’re like! Hmmm, 10, confusing then...
Haven’t moved yet but got a cake in the oven

I will just use your dates for dpo @Franklydear 🤣🤣

I only had a very light 4 day AF do think my body is still adjusting after my coil removal (I know it can take months sometimes and I had the coil 10 years nearly...) with it only being 2nd cycle and 11 weeks post removal.

So I don't want to waste any CB OPKs this month and it's just easier to take it easy and see what happens as I don't think anything will yet... I will just make sure we have plenty of sex all weekend just in case 🤟🏼