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

@larrythelizard ah I see! Fingers crossed anyway!!
@Minster2012 it's alright, I've rebooked it for tomorrow now 😘
Bless him, he defo needs to chill. It can take a while as seen by our long listing! I know, eek! Thank you 😊

@Minster2012 thank you sweet always interesting to hear positive outcomes with these things, I thought it would just be my factor of pcos I never thought about my hub in the situation so thanks for the sign post to @Justanothercyster

@notyetamumbuttrying thank you so much for that breakdown I was just concerned that the email came across with the path lab results with all these numbers then the report sentence summary was just motality & morphology below range value and I was like shit 🥺

what supplements did you get your partner to take to help improve things? So happy to hear your positivity of how changes helped the numbers 🤞🏻😘 My hub didn't wanna take anything until this SA now he's like right what do you want me to take, I have no clue where to start for male supplements :')

@kaylsd it's marginally below! Nothing to be worried about. My Dh's came bk saying abnormal cos they were so low 😂 so he was taking wellman when remembered so I swapped those for the proxceed plus sachets. It's taken as a drink twice a day. I also gave him one of my vitamin d tablets a day too. Get him on those for 3 months and then do a repeat one! If he smokes, he needs to stop. If he binges at the weekend, he needs to stop. More exercise and more veg n fruit in him!

@kaylsd sorry no SA advice here. It's really frustrating when you have the results but no explanation. I went out my mind for weeks with my own Googling. Hope you find out soon. Oooh @notyetamumbuttrying seems to be the expert 😁

@Minster2012 glad you've got lots of TLC lovely 💕

Had first session of reflexology today. It was fab, I fell asleep and now feel all floaty 😆 all I told her was that I wanted it for stress relief then when she finished told me she noticed some problems she worked on and asked me if I have headaches often - yes and do I have an imbalance of hormones that I know of - yes (the estrogen and progesterone being all over the place) so then I told her about the fertility issues and she was like that all makes sense now. Don't usually buy into that stuff but she basically read my life through my feet 😂 would recommend

Ooh very interesting @bez91. Was it tickly? Not big into people touching my feet but sounds quite a nice experience..!

@bez91 that sounds great, so zen!

@kaylsd see this is why the thread is great, there are ppl who have experience of everything. @Thinkingandblinking also had some sperm issues and was advised to take the same supplements my DH takes, and got pregnant with the ivf drugs in the fridge! But like @notyetamumbuttrying says, it's also about exercise, veg (leafy veg especially) less alcohol.

The supplements we use (though DHs sperm is good but we just think it's good to have help anyway) are

futureyouhealth.com/fertility-plus

And I take their Coq10 and krill oil and vit C along with boots vit D too and folic acid

I think I can refer a friend for 20% off.

No idea if any are better than others but no fishy burls with those krill oil they are very vanilla flavour 🤣

Just colouring away here

@notyetamumbuttrying
He's not a smoker but likes a good bevvy on days off from work, but in last 2 week he's cut it down to once a week which he thought would have had a positive impact but I've explained to him he needs to stick with it than just doing it run up to testing 🤣 he goes to gym 5 days a week too so he's really good with the exercise front, I'm just going to get him on the supplement life and make sure he eats abit better & keeps up with the drinking less and I'm hoping by time we reach fertility referral time things should have improved for his point of view so they can tackle mine! Thank you so much for your advice 💖

@bez91 dr google is the worst! When i went on a diagnosis google when I was first suggested to have PCOS I genuinely thought one morning I'm gonna brush my teeth look into mirror and turn into the bearded lady off the greatest showman if I gave what they said half a second thought 😩😂

@Minster2012 literally love this community so much, I have so much respect for it and love for everybody who's going on their own journey and hitting each bump in the road but having each other's back every step of the way! It just shows on like today's instance I've got more sense off the girls off here than I would have received by my own GP!

Makes me feel so reassured that there's so many of us out there who's gone through similar situations who can relate and support 💖✨

Ps loving the colouring page, nothing says solid mindfulness techniques like that✨😘🤣

@bez91 resident sperm expert over here 👈🏿 😂 roll up roll up for all your sperm needs, one time offer 😜 haha I'm in a weird mood tonight! Not even injected my stimming jab yet! Ooh nice reflexology session. I've been thinking of doing this or acupuncture, might try one of the two if this round doesn't work!
@kaylsd good to hear he's basically healthy already then! It's defo supplements then and he'll be right as rain! No probs 😉
@Minster2012 epic colouring there minster! 🤪

...and I'm spotting, AF incoming...

@larrythelizard dammit,
my only consolation is that my afs seem to be more normal, not just spotting for a couple of days and then light flow for two hours,...

That's one highly detailed picture to colour 🤣🤣@minster2012

I swear I'm symptom spotting even though I'm like 50 days off my fertile week.. been having nausea late at night last week had sore boobs and constipation (sorry for tmi) had really bad acne too and been soooo lathargic maybe af might come soon and be on a smaller cycle 😊

@larrythelizard your not out yet .. not till af fully arrives with her bags lol

Nice sentiment @Dollybird89 but it feels like every other AF so it is.

Thanks @Franklydear on to the next one. Mad how sick I've been feeling!

Can someone recommend a Tetris game for android? Mine stopped a while ago and cannot find anything that feels like the arcade, as in fast...

@DOB78 no, that's shit. You can be angry!
@Minster2012 colour away! Keeps the mind occupied. For a short time anyway.

@Minster2012 good job on colouring in the lines 😂😂😂. We’re about two weeks behind you putting our house up for sale.

@kaylsd ha on the alcohol I think you need to remind him that swimmers take 3 months to make from start to finish so two weeks before the test won't do much 😁

I'd recommend checking this to interpret the SA results - I've found it super helpful! www.reddit.com/r/maleinfertility/comments/kf1jju/how_to_read_your_sperm_analysis_results_what_does/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Morning! Just reading the chat and wanted to update as hopefully helpful!

Had my 12 week scan yesterday and all ok, am so relieved! Was put forward by 4 days so will be 14 weeks this Friday!

We had reoccurent miscarriage between 9 and 12 weeks, 3 in total one twin pregnancy! - which the nhs just told me was probably bad luck / egg quality....went down the ivf route and found a few issues with hubbies swimmers! Firstly he had an infection that needed antibiotics and he also had low morphology / antibodies. So he also took proceed and tomato pills linked above, follow up sperm analysis much improved!

I’m also on asprin / clexane / cyclogest.... 🤞🏻 Things continue to progress ok....

There is more recent research saying sperm dna damage can be linked to miscarriage, we will never know, but good to give other half a check and get your bloods done for levels / clotting!

Hope above helps, sorry about long post!! Xxx

@thinkingandblinking Congratulations!!! Brilliant news for you and OH. Might have to talk to OH about supplements or just sneak them in his food😃

@kirky658 I went from a size 14 to size 24 with first I ate everything in sight it was awesome!!!

Thankyou girls for giving me a safe place to unload. My Mum brought me a 1000 piece jigsaw I've wanted one for ages so that will keep me occupied and I'm starting Zumba classes tomorrow