Trouble titties, windy 🌬 bums, & full stockings of old 💦…TTC bus 50

[Minster2012]

When you don’t think about your days as “Monday Tuesday Wednesday” you think of them as “fertile week” or “CD12” we know the feeling.

We’ve tried baby dust (back in early 2020 I think we stopped believing in that!?, we’ve tried chocolate/pizza & sofa sex (remember that? Late 2020, that got a lot of babies!) and now we are onto manifesting, testing, pleading & yet there’s still some unwanted bleeding🤣😂well tough titties we are here to stay til we get those BFPs🤞🏻🙌🏻we just need to rinse out our foofs & get the nurses to wade through our stocking full of old sperm 💦

Whether you are TTC “normally”, IUI/ivf or anything we are a crew that cling together to the bitter end & always ready to help a sister out. We’ve had multiples, some losses so know two lines can be just as terrifying as none, and we’ve got ladies where those two lines are more illusive than a white Christmas 🎅🏻

It costs an embarrassing story for your ticket, doesn’t have to be TTC related as we know laughing when TTC is needed.

If you see mention of Instagram I have a public account where a lot of people are linked too:
Minstermusings, and a few people have created new anonymous accounts to record their TTC journey/life stupidities m/general annoyances on…just don’t mention TTC on a personal account.

Bumps & babies who want to keep track of us from our other buses 👀
@clairey844
@blackcurrantqueen
@lucyrp
@Catherinettc
@Ltay2
@BlondePotter
@Clairey844
@Gem176
@kirky658
@justanothercyster
@2020mission
@Hopeful110
@becarefuloutthere
@crazydoglady123
@Haiyaa
@lexber
@whatwonder
@bez91
@DKDK123
@minster2012
@feliznavidad2
@clolo
@gcat16
@Bea14

Story so far...

We’ve been around since March 2020 but @minster2012 took over in …
June 2020 24 BFPs
July 11 BFPs
August 18 BFPs
Sep 4 BFPs
Oct 7 BFPs
Nov 7 BFPs
Dec 14 BFPs
Jan 2021 7 BFPs
February 8 BFPs
March 5 BFPs
April 5 BFPs
May 4 BFPs
June 5 BFPs
July 1 BFP
Aug 2 BFPs
Sept 5 BFPs
October 3 BFP
November 1 BFP

Still in it for the ride are out sexy passengers:

@Franklydear
@Vil10
@Manifestingbaby
@larrythelizard
@kaylsd
@dmb91
@pennysays
@bundaberg84
@MrsBiddy

Just about hanging on with fingertips
@sausage1990

IVF/IUI/ICSI /clomid passengers as well as TTC on the side!
@somatronic
@manifestingbaby
@Dollybird89
@juno231
@paintfairy
@sunbird24
@InkyPaper

Newly promoted to the bump list;
@Bea14

@kaylsd I reckon it's posh people. I don't know anyone that uses it. Clearly you are not mixing with the right circles! 🤣

As for the dinner/tea thing. I think I use them interchangeably, so any visiting aliens could be confused. Lunch can be dinner. But dinner can be tea. Got that? 🤣 Breakfast is definitely breakfast though.

Breakfast always breakfast unless it's brunch surely @paintfairy ????
And I'm not push enough to say it either, and DH is proper Yorkshire family and they don't say supper so not sure @clolo, guess I'll find out!

So then any suggestions of good topics of conversations??!!! No idea who wise is there but bearing in mind the neighbours are mid 60s 😬

@kaylsd loads of us did homemade wreaths last year on here they looked so fab and made for a nicer Dec beating in mind it was lockdown again

Could be worth a trip to GPS @Juno231 though my gp said yesterday it's a bad infection but not bacterial so can't do anything about it and I was def hacking up green phlegm 😬

@lucyrp ive FOUND my Christmas stuff so that's a start. And bought a stand for a real tree today too which is novel, I've never had a real tree before

Right best go get ready
Shoes shined, get my best behaviour on. Eeeekkkk

Hello I don’t no if I can post this here but I need some help, has any of you had this before and got bfp

Sorry if not allowed I have posted my own post on here but no luck on people replying,

So here goes

Please see pics

Hi, @Shock123 no answers for you except to wait, I can’t see anything on the frer, we need an embarrassing story for your ticket
@Minster2012 breakfast, brunch, elevenses, lunch, merienda, tea, dinner and supper, there your day map out! We do same tree, same decorations down to the tinsel, we sometime add a thing, last year was a penguin to put under the tree, mostly personalised legoland bubble with family photo with Santa

@paintfairy I'm with @lucyrp on the RHR, day to day it fluctuates but I'm sure it'll rise again soon but the overall picture is that of the long term one!

@Minster2012 I would be thrown too on the supper thing. Like @kaylsd said I would say supper is small meal before bed ie cereal or toast. You'll have to update us! Never thought that about dinner ladies 😆 but yes dinner and tea here too. @clolo I thought it was a northern thing, although I do occasionally say lunch to mix it up a bit

@paintfairy dear God I'd have no clue what's what in your house! 😁

@Minster2012 breakfast is breakfast until... It's a wedding breakfast! That one took me a while to get as a foreigner when I first got here!

@kaylsd and minster - hadn't considered a chest infection but looking it up it sort of seems like it should clear up on its own anyway? I'm not a fan of antibiotics if I think I can push through on my own 😅

@Shock123 I find it very odd the FRERs are blank - are they all from the same batch? Or är they maybe the rapid result ones rather than early result? I agree that wait and see tomorrow is the only thing you can do really

@Juno231 of it is a chest infection you need antibiotics, fan or not, it won't clear up by itself, I should know I have an average of 5 a year, often chained, is not fun

@paintfairy @vil10 realised I said about my RHR dropping a few weeks after my bfp but forgot to attach the actual pic, hope it helps ease some of your anxieties.

@minster2012 you'll need to let us know what their interpretation of supper was once you're home tonight.

@Dollybird89 glad they couldn't see anything glaringly bad, take that as a good sign. Hopefully it is just a minot infection and the cream or medication will shift it. Well done on the great pelvic floor muscles tho!

@Juno231 that's rubbish that you're still feeling so bad, phone up the docs as it might be a chest infection that needs a bit of help clearing.

@lucyrp that would be total sods law wouldn't it that you'd accidentally fall pregnant this cycle when you weren't trying compared to how hard you tried for Evelyn 😂

@Shock123 you're best sticking to the one brand of test to check for line progression it's hard to compare against different brands. If it doesn't get darker and you've got bleeding it sadly may be a chemical. Buy a few test of the same brand, first response early results is usually a good clear one and test every 2 days to see if the line is getting darker.

Ladies, I've had a crappy hormonal day today. DH sent me to my early and I can hear him downstairs doing all the housework. Can't decide if I've got a good one or if he's just terrified to upset the crazy hormonal pregnant lady 🤔😂

Ah, did it again @Vil10 @paintfairy, posted without attaching the pic 🤦‍♀️ Check the big drop end of Sept that was a few weeks after my bfp and it dropped for quite a number of days before rising again.

Either way he sounds like a keeper @DKDK123! DH stepped it up too here as I've been doing silly hours at work!

@kaylsd you'll smash it at your new job, that feels like it's come round quick!

@Minster2012 they're just people - be they posh or not so just chat about normal stuff!

@lucyrp talking of things moving quickly is Evelyn 14 weeks already?!

@Juno231 @Manifestingbaby I've been hanging about like a bad smell since we went back to condoms in August! Roll on March...

I'm also dinner and tea but I think that's because I went to uni up north and my northern friends rubbed off on me!

Ha good point on wedding breakfast @Juno231 although rarely a term I hear these days!

@Shock123 like @DKDK123 says it could well be a chemical pregnancy, unfortunately it's a waiting game really.

I went to the gym this evening and it was horrendous and my legs are so sore and I don't know if I'll be able to walk in the morning, let alone go for the 7am session I'm booked in for!

@Minster2012 that surprises me! I thought you'd be a real tree lady. You've been missing out! I love a real tree, the smell is amazing 😍

@DKDK123 wouldn't it just! Seems to be what happens 🥴

@larrythelizard yep 14 weeks today!😭😭 I'm so emotional every time I think of how much she's grown already and then I look at DS and think of how small he was and how big he is now🥺

Hi thanks for replying they are frer ones the ones I’ve pulled apart are pink lines it others are looking negative I just need to have faith lol and wait thanks for replying,

Also my most embarrassing moment is 😂😂😂😂

I was in my pjs collecting my take away at the door so I am standing holding pizza boxes in my hand my 4 year old daughter at the time came running to the door tripped over fresh air as they do try to grab on me to stop her fall pulled my bottoms down and I was standing there Half naked no nickers nothing 🙈🙈 can safely say we never got pizza there again 😂😂

@Shock123 what a story, welcome sister, we had a few like that, so you have a daughter, what’s your story? I am 44, have an 11 year old boy, and trying for a second for 2 years+

Wait, the clear frers are after the ones with lines?

Late check in after night of no sleeping, Chong til I was sick & munching on green bitty phlegm. Mmmmm. From having to talk last night I guess.

@Shock123 hey welcome, I bet that was the best evening of that dudes work! I'm with the others you will have to keep testing with a brand & hope it's not a chemical I'm afraid 😧

@larrythelizard in awe of your motivation. My motivation is at munis levels

@Dollybird89 I'm pleased they didn't find anything sinister & get you flying out the speculum 😂😬

So the supper last night was ok but just bizarre. A seemingly random group of ppl with not a lot linking to the hosts or anyone else & wide age ranges. We guess that our neighbours just love to know what's going on & so sporadically invite ppl over to catch up. Age ranges of couple from 28 one pair (who knew DH's cousin randomly) through 40s then the hosts at mid 70s

The food was a meal but a very weird one & not filling or conducive to being pregnant 😂(but I told them when I got there).
We sat down to plates of chunks of raw steak. Just that. Then there was garlic bread (I had 2 bits & got a "ooo I see" as I reached for the second, salad & then Mayo, Mayo with curry powder in & horseradish. It was a meat fondue of course. Wtf I hear you say. Yep my thoughts entirely. So we had to cook our steak in the fondue (of course I could cook mine more but I was wincing as I did it as I love blue steak) as they told us "of course when we used to have fondue nights skiing we played strip fondue & if your meat fell off the skewer in the pot then you removed an item of clothing"
Def swingers 😂😂

Then bread & butter pudding
Then cheese & biscuits, but not a mix of cheese, only Brie. So I couldn't eat that
Then a round of the guys homemade damson gin (smelt gorgeous) and coffee

Just bizarre.
There was a lady who practiced "talking therapy" so we were all tapping our heads and bodies at certain points (which was def a load of crap but can understand it as a good soothing coping mechanism for ppl) but she said it can cure phobias.

Anyway. Was ok but just very weird!

@Juno231 the doctor told me on Monday they couldn't do anything & mine sounds very much the same as yours so hopefully a few days more rest & hot drinks might do it. I'm taking @Vil10's approach and smothering myself head to toe in vicks 😂least I smell good 😊

Thanks for the welcome back everyone 😊

I'm feeling a bit shitty, horrible cramps and temp nosedived so AF will be here today and that will only be a 9 day luteal phase 😩

I also got my CD3 FSH blood results and it's 9.2 so that's not ideal either...hope it's not perimenopause as I'm only 37!

Hope everyone else's day is better than mine so far!

@Juno231 I heard DH say this morning- do you want your dinner? To the dog. It was before 8am and most certainly breakfast. 🤣
@Shock123 good story!
@DKDK123 aww bless him. Wait, housework? Do people actually do this at night?
@Minster2012 that sounds really bizarre! I actually don't think I could have gone. I'm really weird about going to things with people I don't know. Also really weird about eating things. Put the 2 together and its anxiety meltdown. I have to know what the food will be so I'd have had to ask beforehand. Obviously with being pregnant you have an excuse to, but even aside from that i couldn't cope. 🤣 And I certainly am not sure what I'd have made of what did happen. How bloody bizarre?! I'm with you on the steak though- I can't eat it well cooked, yet I love steak. Is it not allowed any pink at all? Most the other food i wouldn't have even eaten, bar the garlic bread. As for the rest, 🤷‍♀️🤣 I bet you can't wait for next time!
@polkadotpixie mine was 8.9 at 38. You could ask for a retest? I don't really know how exact the science is with the relation to ttc.

Hi yes will of been the best day haha,

I have 4 children
Boy 11
Boy 8
Girl 5
Boy 4

My little boy was a twin but vanashied around 6 weeks, he was born at 31 weeks no idea why but he was very poorly for the first 2 year with hes chest and has hat been diagnosed with autism so he’s my little miracle baby and my littler hero, obviously I love all my children the same but the stuff he’s been through in he’s little life time has been a ride for him, I had some pink watery blood this morning and is still there when I wipe pink now with cramp so I think am out, yday was weird was darker with dark red fleshy speckle in it so have no idea but this is day 6 of on off spotting

Onto the December train ttc x

Ahh I am 34 lol live in birtley next to Newcastle we have our own plant hire company and fishery lakes😂😂 and some ducks

@Shock123 my boy is also autistic, his achievements are often celebrated here on my mummy brags, there's a few on this bus, you definitely found the right place, I had similar afs, with faint lines too,never resulted in anything

Question for the travel industry folk, I can't find the answer anywhere, to come back to UK after Xmas, having covid in November, what can I do, might well test positive on PCR, lft negative today, did one on me and ds to try... already planning to shorten the already short trip to allow for day 2 test isolation, but if I test positive for a few weeks...

@manifestingbaby she's 16 weeks today! She seems a lot more settled so far on the Gaviscon, but I'm currently battling trying to get her to have a nap 🙄

@DKDK123 @lucyrp Thankyou so much for the reassurance on the rhr!! Mine has dropped again by 1 today but I'm trying not to think too much into it!

@Shock123 welcome!! Hope it's a short ride for you!

@Minster2012 that is the weirdest gathering ever, and totally not pregnancy friendly either🤣 and yes to the vicks, that stuff is a miracle worker!!

@polkadotpixie sorry you feel like af is on the way!! Like @paintfairy said, maybe asking for a retest?x

@paintfairy how're you feeling today?x

@Vil10 my rhr has remained the same as yesterday but has dropped every day for a few days. I feel a bit better now but I felt terrible this morning. Really sick (unless I'm constantly eating). Also tired. The fact i felt so awful made me worry less about the rhr. 🤣 But yes it seems the norm so not worth paying too much attention to, as @DKDK123 and @lucyrp said.

@polkadotpixie you aren't out til the witch shows up. My temp nosedived and I got my BFP, it still kept falling so I stopped taking it, I can't advise on the FSH though I'm 38 so keep the faith 🥰

@paintfairy keep munching bits if it helps. You aren't meant to eat pink meat no, but I still did mine slightly pink last night as the outside was scorched but after 20 weeks I am also planning on buying myself a nice steak & cooking it how I like which is "black and blue" again so the outside where the bacteria is is cooked but I'll do it a bit more. I mean in theory it wasn't weird stuff it was just all a bit weird 😂so havd you stopped paying attention to your rhr??

@Shock123 sounds like a lovely family, here's hoping it's still ok

@Franklydear do tests still come up positive for a while then?

@Kirky658 I remember those battles

So I just went round some shops and in one had a coughing fit, mannnnn the looks I got 🙄

@Minster2012 NHS says not to test again for 90 days as the PCR can pick up residual vírus, you're not contagious but still test positive, can't find anywhere what happens on that situation, found everything else but that looks like the big elephant on the guidelines

@Minster2012 too busy having a meltdown and crying about feeling ill to worry about my rhr. 🤣
Can you eat it after 20 weeks? I need steak.....