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

@Franklydear @paintfairy ffs to the both of you 🤣

gets off tenter hooks for @paintfairy**

@Bea14 how is the line looking? Got everything crossed for you

Got that trial embryo transfer today but can't be arsed. Hate that it's mid morning (11am) and I just feel mentally not with it to plan going there etc. I think it's cause I'm super busy at work and got so much social stuff on this week 😬. Got loads to do at work, plus coursework to finish by Friday - yet there's also dinner with the in laws tomorrow after work and I'm doing CSR work all Friday (planting trees!) so am losing a day of work. Going straight from planting trees to a weekend away for an in law wedding as well. Gah I guess I have to pack for that tonight? Which probably means I should cancel my local community exercise class...

Rant over!

@Juno231 I think once you've got the trial out of the way you'll feel better. Maybe do an exercise thing yourself this morning instead to pump you up and then you can cancel the one later feeling ok?

@Juno231 i am tired fro just reading your schedule, ....

@Minster2012 soz, I started a work training course at 8am this morning that lasts until 1015 which is also when my taxi is picking me up... Haven't told my boss anything as I'm also double booked for a conference that lasts until 12... Btw your doctors seemed on the ball which is a relief! Does this mean you'll have a baba up to two weeks before the 22nd of May? I'm also super excited for your gender scan!

@Franklydear says the lady with a COVID household! I hope DS makes a speedy recovery

Oh no @Franklydear I think it's inevitable for school kids. Fingers crossed he bounces back soon.

That is a busy couple of days @Juno231 - maybe good that no time to dwell on the dry run? I'd like to spend a day planting trees instead of working this week, maybe I'll suggest it to my team!

Oh back to fingers crossed and no questions then @paintfairy!

@Minster2012 my friend waited a good while to tell her firstborn about being pregnant as she couldn't be dealing with all the 'is it here yet' questions she'd get.

My sister is pregnant so I was talking to DS about being a big cousin to a tiny baby. His response was 'no, mummy have tiny baby'...so hopefully he's like @DKDK123's boy and he's psychic!

@Juno231 @larrythelizard so far he’s fine, he only has a cough and feels tired, happy to be 2 weeks on his iPad, hopefully stays that way, dh and I will test daily and hopefully the vaccine will protect us, I have my booster in just over a week! I can’t work from home, so tough shit, I called to tell, bossboy didn’t even ask how he’s feeling so no guilt feelings at all

I am all for psychic children

Hello ladies... long time lurker but hoping there's a seat for me?🤞🏻☺️ have been TTC since late 2018 - was diagnosed with PCOS yesterday and have a possible large fibroid. This thread looks so supportive!

I was waiting for your update @paintfairy 😆

Hi ladies!! Sorry I've been rubbish! But I'm here and taking my extra warm seat from being on this bus so long!! I'm just going to go back to the last thread to see what I need to reply to and catch up on!

@Bea14 line progression looks good!! Congratulations lovely❤️ how exciting on the house move!! Have you started getting things moving? Yess ours is sstc but quite far down the line, we're moving out in the first/second week of jan but with no house to move into obviously it's a stress but I'm trying not to worry too much about it! We saw a house yesterday which had the character we wanted but there wasn't much of a garden or parking and downstairs was a little cramped so wasn't for us! We're seeing one tomorrow which will be a renovation project and seeing one on Saturday which was recently renovated, but I'm a bit excited about the renovation one, it's something I've always wanted to do!

@becarefuloutthere haha love that with all the parcels arriving!! I can't wait to buy all my first baby things, I bet you're so excited, it's the little clothes that get me! I got my referral and rang the referral team to make my first gynae appointment but I'm still waiting for my letter with my appointment on, I feel like it's taking forever!! How long did it take for yours to come?

@Franklydear oh noo, hope your DS is okay!!

@Minster2012 how exciting on the gender scan!!

@Juno231 that is a busy schedule!! Hopefully it all goes well today though!

@paintfairy when're you testing?? How're you feeling?

So girls, after your referral how long did it take to get your letter through with your first appointment? I feel like my letter surely should be here now just so I at least know when my appointment is!

@vil10 I think it took nearly a month!

@xoJellyBean welcome! Gosh you've been on the TTC train for quite a while then! How come it took so long to diagnose the pcos - have you been dealing with wankers?

@Juno231 thankyou... I was in denial for long enough & I had a rubbish GP. I moved area at the end of last year and my new GP is wonderful, I'm in N Ireland though so still awaiting my first NHS appointment after nearly a year. I went private and waited 9 weeks for that appointment too!

Also completely exhausted by @Juno231's schedule 😂😂but maybe just today as seemingly could nap all day! We've booked the gender scan for 4th Dec 🙌🏻and yeah it seems ppl think the week before due date is likely

@Franklydear goodness it seems rife in your area, hope DS gets better soon, we've got hacking morning coughs here but managed to avoid a D&V bug my nephew caught last week thank goodness

@larrythelizard yes that's def a good reason to wait to tell DS, I think he might think he's getting a baby for Xmas!! Can't cope with constant "is it here yet?" 🤪I think your DS will ask for one for Xmas too!

@xoJellyBean welcome!! I'm sorry you also had a rubbish GP, we know a few of those as implied by @Juno231 😃do you have an embarrassing story for your ticket please??

@Vil10 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻come on houses, stars align & all that! Hopefully you won't be too long waiting for the referral

@clolo heyyyyy how you doing?!

Yes I'm a bit better holding in the day @Minster2012 as the issue seems to get worse as I go through. It has calmed down a little. Before I was even struggling in the day. TMI but I'm managing to go to the toilet first thing now and so that seems to start things off OK. It just depends from there. 12-3am I was awake last night with it! 😫 Spa sounds good! What's this present though?! @Dollybird89
@Manifestingbaby whilst you are correct about the bump list, it still seems very unfair for the ones not yet on it.
@Kirky658 glad you found us. Good luck with your therapy.
@Somatronic its difficult isn't it. But I'd be starting to think the same. It should have worked by now. Has your OH been checked out? Its definitely not him?
@InkyPaper that sounds terrible. What's actually wrong with her? Was it related to the birth?
@bez91 cyanide?! 🤣 God.
@DKDK123 the 13 1/2 week scan thing is ridiculous! Do they not realise people worry about these things?
@Minster2012 you'll love MAFS and I can't wait for you to Google where they are at now. I'm sorry but I think you might be driving this bus for a very long time. 🤭🤣
@Franklydear oh no! Ffs.
@Juno231 at least the trial transfer will reassure you it'll all be fine when it comes to it. But yeah I agree a bit of an anticlimax. The rest sounds rubbish.
@larrythelizard psychicness sounds promising! 🤞
@xoJellyBean welcome to the madhouse!
@feliznavidad2 I know, which is why I thought I'd point out fairly quickly that there was no news. 🤣
@Vil10 my referral was early jan. I got a phonecard from the fertility unit early Feb and my appointment was actually only a few weeks later.

So- the reason there's no test (I did actually hold wee as well long enough) is because DH is out all day. So we'll blame him. 🤣 He's at work and then he goes out straight from work and won't be back until getting on for 11pm. I decided that being on my own all day either ecstatic or miserable with no one to talk to, was not maybe ideal. If he was coming home after work then it wouldn't have been so bad. It is however starting to kill me not knowing. I thought my symptoms would be vanishing so therefore I'd know if I was out. But they aren't. Which either means I'm not out, or life is just cruel. So now I'm getting hopes up and clearly that's a disaster as I was originally all for dealing with a bad outcome.
Last night I was awake from 12 -3am with my stomach. And when that finally eased, my boobs were hurting and I had hot hands and feet and I was too irritable. So the progesterone symptoms are still very strong. Of course I'm on pessaries and they might just be really good ones. 🤣 Arrrgghhh. My rhr has remained level too, with no drop yet. 🤷‍♀️Torture. And DH is a knob head.

Ok sounds reasonable for not testing @paintfairy, knob as he might be it's good you're doing this together. Testing tomorrow??

@Vil10 house stuff sounds exciting and a good distraction!

There's some fibroid success stories around @xoJellyBean - I think @DKDK123? So have hope!

Sounds really tough @InkyPaper, hang in there.

Ooh back on TTC @Dollybird89, exciting!

I'm also way too invested and excited with @Minster2012's sex scan!!

@Minster2012 thank you ☺️ oh yes I do indeed... TTC related of course 🤣 I have my own TTC insta to vent cause literally nobody knows I am TTC. I was updating my OPKs but posted to my personal insta story, everyone thought they were pregnancy tests 😫 didn't realise until I was getting an influx of congrats lol I guess they alllll know now 😎

Thanks for the welcomes @paintfairy @larrythelizard that's great to know re: fibroid stories! I'm a bit clueless. I assumed it would need removed but will know more after the CT scan🤞🏻

@larrythelizard yes tomorrow is the plan. 🤞 No one else IRL knows so I think it's best we do it together. I've got no one else to talk to about it.

@paintfairy 12-3am?! Torture! I think the pressie was an axe? Made by dolly's OH

@bez91 yes omg how the f did he get cyanide poisoning?? Ate too many apple cores? 🤣

@larrythelizard ah yes thank you for calling it sex scan, we need to get better at that 😬

Currently half an hour late for this TET...

@xoJellyBean vom at that embarrassing story - it's the kind where I'd get a flashback to it on my death bed and cringe 😅