TWINS?! Oh f**k! 😱 avoiding those 🧀🍆& banging in camper vans; it’s TTC bus 42

[Minster2012]

So ladies. You thought you got rid of me eh? Like the omnipresent flashing smiley face on the joker clear blue sticks you can’t get past I’m BACK! 🤡😄

The agency driver did the most amazing job I tried to offer a permanent job but apparently temping is much more lucrative & she’s got a gig elsewhere much better paid than driving you reprobates so you a stuck with me I’m afraid, like that rash you’ve been meaning to go to the doctors about or a guy with a cheesey dick you really need to have a conversation with but can’t bring yourself too 🤪�hthank you so much @larrythelizard

We’ve reserved a bench seat each for our newest 2 sets of bus twins, but don’t worry there’s still room for more!

So get those cheese dicks 🧀🍆washed & prepped, park up the camper van, ditch the whey powder & join the team for the banging game!

The price of your bus pass is an embarrassing story please, doesn’t have to go be TTC related and nothing is TMI here so let’s hope the ride (bus not banging) doesn’t take long 🤞🏻🙌🏻

This is where dogs, dicks & chat go hand in hand as we navigate the stormy seas of TTC.

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
May 4 BFPs

And we’ve gone bumper with a twins section...
@madeoftea
@crazydoglady

Roll on the summer

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Morning ladies, cd27 here due Monday.
Wipe-gate update nothing this morning, like @Franklydear I had me FMU to stop me testing... must wait, must wait...

Absolutely exhausted at minute. Went out fir tea last night and had hardly any appetite and couldn't eat the same coleslaw I enjoyed last week. As I drive home the motion made me feel sickly and I ended up head in loo at home 🤦🏽‍♀️ no sickness just sat crying into the toilet for no reason other than feeling so tired (I had a 2hour nap 4.45-6.45pm!!) then I was in bed by 10 and just woke up...

Oh is convinced it was the camper van night he got cheered and we've conceived 🤣🤣

I daren't get excited, trying to distract myself, Altho I'm falling back to sleep so that should help 🤣🤣

@bez91 glad you have a private appointment booked. I think we assume the NHS will be there to help us with any medical needs but alas ttc has shown us that they're actually quite limited in what they can do at times due to limited budgets. 😔 I know what you mean about feeling frustrated there wasn't actually anything glaringly wrong as then at least something could be done to fix it. The councilling is maybe worth a go if it's FOC. Not quite the same I know but I found the fact I properly sat down and chatted to my boss about everything this time round really helped instead of just soldiering on, I dont think we fully appreciate just how much of the ttc strain we carry on our shoulders until we unload it.

@amy00 I work with teens with ASD however some of mine are cognitively only 2/3years old so think toddler tantrums in a 15year old body. While a 2year old may chuck their toys mine will chuck tables/chairs or will try to hit/kick when they are frustrated but don't realise their own strength and the damage/hurt they can do. I love my job and don't blame them tho, covid especially has caused a shitstorm this year as life as they know it isnt predictable anymore so they're scared and frustrated with things changing all the time and some are finding it really hard to cope with challenging behaviours unfortunately being the result. If anyone so much as mentions the word covid one of mine flips as hes so angry with it and all the changes its caused and to be fair I can't blame him we all feel the same and we don't have ASD on top of things!

How's your foot healing @Dollybird89 feeling any better?

@minster2012 it's the premom app you need to download. On the home screen at the top there's a number 9 you click on that to start the 9month guarantee and as long as you DTD at least once during FW and log it and log pic of opks you'll get a green for that month. After 9 greens you can claim the money back. They put on a form after your 9 greens and you just type in the amazon order numbers and within the week the money was credited back to my amazon account. For me I find the premom app is more accurate with my cycle than femometer, I find as soon as I logged ewcm fermometer was like that's it you're ovulating tomorrow even tho it can be 5 days later before I actually ovulate but it never seemed to adjust to my pattern whereas premom does.

@lexber any more updates on wipegate? 😂 All sounding quite promising 🤞 I also found last month before the bfp I was going to the loo more whereas usually the lead up to AF I can get quite constipated so really hoping all your symptoms are onto something good!

Great news on the interview @larrythelizard!

@vil10 how typical on the house front 🙈 Is your friend just casually looking or has she proper fallen for it?

@Tornado2Inc I always got stronger lines with later in the day tests or SMU than I would with FMU. Hoping things progress for you tomorrow crossing everything.

@juno231 how frustrating doesn't he realise these things are time limited, men! 🙄 I'm the opposite tho, I was trying not to do it during FW this cycle to have a bit of a break and I fell out with DH yesterday then had some great make up sex last night right on peak day 🙈 Tho does anyone else find they get like proper PMT style irritated at everything and everyone right on their peak day the one day you really don't want to be falling out if you're ttc? Our bodies really are weird 🤷‍♀️

@Crazydoglady123 hope DS is OK. How annoying on the house front. I get your practical head tho especially when your hands are full. Do you have the finances that if it is your dream forever house you could buy it but rent somewhere cheap for a year that's more practical with the babies while the 4bed is being built? If it's not easy to access the shops check if tesco etc deliver to there. Dream homes don't come up often write down all your pros and cons and see if there's any way you can make it work before writing it off as you don't want to be kicking yourself further down the line.

@Haiyaa congrats on the digital that's one more step in the right direction 😊

@dkd123 it's not too bad still waiting on physio but it's bearable for now.

Got me my morning dose of 🍆 so I'm in a happy mood 🤣 that was until the dog decided to puke up as we had breakfast 🤢

Catch up time!

@blackcurrantqueen progesterone is the worst! I hate it! What's Sunday mean for you?
@Juno231 I'm from Bucks so it's moving bk home for me but moving out of London for Dh which is gonna be weird for him, having lived here his whole life. So would Dh not consider moving further afield then? Eek to the investment, hope I don't disappoint! 😬
Good for you for asking top end! I'm sure you're great in your line of work, so why the hell not! When will you hear back?
@Vil10 they'll be more for sure! Let us know what your friend thinks of the house. Nauseas passed now so must have been the progesterone, it's a sneaky bugger!!
@Crazydoglady123 ah your poor son, hope he's ok now? Eek hate falling out with Dh, I think how you left it sounds sensible to me tbh!
@DKDK123 how are you today darling?
@Dollybird89 yay to dtd! Boo to dog sick 🤢

If you're concerned about a possible ectopic @Haiyaa then get on and get yourself and get yourself referred to the EPU (here I'd do it via the GP). Pleased you got your 2-3 though.

The MC I had when I didn't know better also didn't progress on the CB's @Franklydear - it's funny now when I look back it's obvious things weren't well but it's the first time I'd ever been pregnant!

Hahaha yes as if you'd wait @Tornado2Inc just remember it is super early so don't beat yourself up just yet.

@Tornado2Inc fingers are crossed for you, it's early, there's time yet!

Good luck @Franklydear & @Lexber 🤞🏻 🤞🏻

@Juno231 re. your falling out, it's difficult innit, I take it quite personally even if OH just says he's tired or had plans to do something else... it's hard not to take it to heart. 🤨

@DKDK123 thanks for sharing about the premom app - I've signed up!

Nowt to report here. 3DPO. I feel very grumpy for some reason, did yesterday too. Like when you feel you're sort of rooting for an argument which is ridiculous as I don't like arguing - just yeah. OH is being v good with me, just sort of ignoring it. 🙄 😖

Have good weekends all. 🌞 ☀️

Wipe-gate update...

After an extra snooze and some cheeky action I've just gone loo and spotting - not actual intercourse but a cheeky o... not lots just when wiped
Mixed with EWCM

Very confused 🤷🏽‍♀️
Def not lots of bleeding just a smidge as no more when wiping but if I poke about a bit it's in there mixed in the EWCM - I bet you are living my descriptions 🤣🤣

Just had a read through & catch up and @Juno231 did you get offered the job? I can't find your original post on it. And as an ex headhunter I say you are perfectly entitled to ask for top range, if you have to provide your last 3 years details then they will see that you have done well (if you got bonuses that is) and you should always start high 🤞🏻🙌🏻🥳you could remind them cheekily that there's no recruitment fee with you & if they asked you to interview they clearly like you, well done!! 😋I used to get ppl big pay hikes so it happens a lot

@larrythelizard you got an interview too! Fantastic! Come on ladies!

@feliznavidad2 according to my thoughts I might be a similar time dpo to you, I don't think I actually ovulated though! This is the boring bit!

@Tornado2Inc still can't believe you got a line so soon that's amazing 🎉🙌🏻come on bean

@notyetamumbuttrying really hope this is it for you 🤞🏻& your job sounds really tough you are a star

@Lexber @Franklydear how you feeling today?

@Vil10 you are in a better position than your mate don't forget that. We actually viewed 2 houses the same as our friends, they were in a much better position than us (like your position) so I know the weird feeling, have you seen it yet?

@Crazydoglady123 have you found somewhere too? Again I can't see your post 🤔

@Lexber don't poke around! I'm really loving your descriptions!! Brilliant! Look I've just got something to help us identify things like this on the bus ...

@Amy00 yup 3 pessaries for me at night when I was doing the ivf. After a few nights you get build up 🤮🤢and if we had sex he'd come out with a white knob (in a condom) was horrible, but it's fine to do all at once, much more convenient 🤣

@Haiyaa do you think ectopic?? Why? Are you ok?

@DKDK123 does this mean im signed up? I haven't put in order number for the OPKs though, I can't find out where. Or fo you fo that after the 9 cycles

@Lexber sounds good, 🤞🏻And we do love your descriptions, I don’t know what to make of your last wipegate, I hope is good, I have nothing still, boobs a bit less uncomfortable, less nausea, and a bit of an upset stomach, don’t know what to make of that either
@DKDK123 covid is so hard with asd, it feels so unfair, mine is taking it all in his stride but every so often you can see the frustration
@larrythelizard I was pregnant before, the first time I wasn’t ttc, only knew when I lost it, got so ill, the second was ds, only ntnp for a few months and everything went so smoothly, and then this last one, wasn’t progressing, bleeding, blah blah, and now waiting, so what I am getting at is that there’s no knowing better....

Went to take ds for music school and bestie’s dd is also in the class, so for a few weeks they’ll go together, and us for coffee when I am off on a Saturday, luckily, as the train got cancelled today so they gave us a lift, she really is my rock, I am so lucky to have her, I know the feeling is reciprocal, so all good.

@Franklydear that's what my oh keeps saying "we'll make it work" and "you're just putting obstacles in the way and being negative"

@Haiyaa congrats lovely and yes I think that makes sense! I'm hanging on to bus graduation until 12 weeks as I'm too scared 🙈
Our family all live 45-60mins away but tbh I hate being smothered by family. I like my own company too much and so I don't want to have to have people round everyday baby sitting me. I want to figure it out for myself how to juggle looking after two. I'm feeling okay I think. Nausea can be a bitch and meal planning is an absolute nightmare atm 😬 but haven't been sick which is good. Super tired all of the time. How are you feeling?

@Tornado2Inc try not to stress over it too much (easier said than done I know) as could have just been more diluted. There's a chart somewhere too for certain dpo testing being better with smu or afternoon urine.

All good signs @Lexber 🤞

@DKDK123 that's a good idea! My biggest concern is if I have to have a c section I want to be able to still walk to a shop if I need something and can't there. I love my own independence. I don't even know how practical renting would be short term? Ideally I'd just want to be somewhere else (practical) for a few months.

Thanks @notyetamumbuttrying. How you holding up with the wait? Not long to go 😍

@Minster2012 OH has seen the dream house (well, the house currently on the land is deffo not the dream) but has planning for a 4 bed house and is on just over 2 acres in a nice location. Price is a bit over what we was looking but a good price but it's not near any shops or places I could walk when I'd have just had the twins 😑 Obv having twins there's a lot of risk and needing a c section so if I did I would be stuck there and couldn't pop out to get anything if I needed it. The bungalow on there atm is super dated (clearly elderly people) and a small 3 bedroom so we're all going to be so on top of each other. AIBU? 😂

@Crazydoglady123 when I had to shield I found that I can get most things in Amazon prime next day, and there wasn’t that many occasions when I desperately wanting something and couldn’t have it, I also got much better at the weekly shop and hardly need top ups now

@Minster2012 I'll take 2 rolls please one for my fanny and one for my nose 🤣
Hayfever is on one and when I blew my nose it looked like I'd wiped my faff 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Talk about my. One coming out in sympathy with my fanny...

@Crazydoglady123 oh, really? That chart will be interesting to check, always good to have more things to feed my crazy 😂 I'm not too stressed about anything really. Not much to do about it if the chromosomal make up isn't right. As I said to my friend last night when we talked about CP, I'd rather have a chemical than an octopus! (As sucky as they are ((both 😂))

@Minster2012 i know, right??? Hint of it was there at 6dpo!!!

Oh @Franklydear and a 3rd poo in 2 days - I never poo this much! I'm a crap every other 2/3rd day amd I'm happy with that saves me a fortune on big roll... @Minster2012 make that 3 rolls...

I have slight cramping and have put a liner on to analysis any further pre wipes... 🤣🤣🤣

🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 @Franklydear

@Lexber me too, but it’s quite normal for me, specially during flare ups, I buy the packets of 24 rolls, I think they last like 6 weeks roughly...

@Crazydoglady123 ahhhh I see, I get what you mean. Tough one. I said I didn't want to be out in the middle of nowhere & I stand by it, but our friends love it. Like @Franklydear said Amazon prime is your friend & having designed a house here we are going to do it again so we love getting a house you truly want. I live in a village where there is only a pub, no shops we have to drive 15 mins to shops. It's fine but I love being in a village not isolation. Really hard choice, but doing it now when twins babies would be good

@Lexber you can have lots of loo roll for your poops & nose 🤣

@Franklydear great friends are hard to come by 🥰

Great ongoing wipegate stories @Lexber, keep it up!

Ha I thought it was some sort of multipack of sauce @Minster2012 I thought maybe mustard and I was quite concerned for your CM!!!

@Franklydear I couldn't do without my friends - DH is pretty good but not as good as them for a lot (most) things!

@Crazydoglady123 can you get planning to knock down a bungalow? Round here they get really protective and they have to stay sort of bungalow-y.

I'm off to a friends later for a BBQ, had my outfit all planned but now I think it might be too hot for it...! Absolutely baking in my garden right now!

@Crazydoglady123 that's a tough one 🤔. Is the bungalow on the same bit as what the house would need to be built ie could you make the bungalow okay-ish for a few months whilst the build goes on? It's painful, we renovated just as DD was born and now she's 3.5 we've just finished an extension so basically we've been doing the work over 3 years. Stressful AF in all honesty but it's done and the stress was totally worth it for the end result 😊

@lexber I'm loving your updates 🤣 come on for camper van baby!!!!! When I think we conceived, DH said to me on the day, I think we just made a baby 🤔❤️

McDonald's for us for treat for lunch after buying baby stuff

@Kirky658 that's exactly what OH did, he is convinced he has super sperm and that was the one:.. I daren't get my hopes up as I know it can take MONTHS and this is only cycle 2!
Little crampy, away with the fairies and tmi but walking round the shops I feel "moist" but I'm holding off going loo as not ready for another wipe-gate yet...

@bez91 @larrythelizard we think we may be able to build next to the bungalow on the basis that the bungalow is demolished to enable it to be signed off

@Minster2012 the area is nice. We're very familiar with it. There's a golf club opposite with a swimming pool I used to take DS for swimming lessons when he was little. I'm addicted to prime as it is @Franklydear 🤣 it's more if say I wanted say a Subway Salad (my addiction) then I wouldn't be able to. Where we live now we have everything on our doorstep or able to be ordered for delivery

@Tornado2Inc this is the chart

Hi everyone!

Hope everyone is doing ok! I was wondering if someone could help me 🙏🏻

I have had spotting for the last 7 days. Brown and light pink. Not enough to fill a pad. This started 6/7 DPO. Over a week before my period and COMPLETELY different to any period before. All tests negative clear blue, FRER etc. Have now got pelvic twinges.

Do I count as a super light period that came early or should I still be hopeful this week? I’m 12DPO I think.

Thank you ok advance I’m driving myself insane.