🎄Is your turkey 🦃moister than an oyster?💦TTC bus 51

[Minster2012]

Wow that last bus was an amazing bumper BFP filled bus where we were all crying and screaming for joy as lots of our lovely passengers got their BFPs…🙌🏻we are having an ADVENT CALENDAR of a BFP each day! 🥰❤️

There’s still some ppl lingering on this bus so that’s it, I’m calling time, all the rest of you are due off this bus with your 2 lines please 🤞🏻

This is the bus where we’ve got lots of things going on, bumps, rainbows 🌈, ivf, and now lots more miracle BFPs before ivf! Maybe we should issue passengers with an ivf referral on your way in too to help spur those eggs & sperm into action!

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.

The buses move quick though @paintfairy maybe you were newly promoted on the one before?

@larrythelizard no, I only got my bfp on the last bus. Was only 2 weeks ago. They've been moving slower of late!

Thanks driver @Minster2012 🥰

@larrythelizard that sounds a very man like thing to say about you loving decorating the tree. A bit like my DH thinks I love cleaning 🙄 oooh a roast 😍

@Lexber kinda local. Wards Garden Centre which always has lots of Christmas decorations 😊

@kaylsd I managed to only spend a tenner plus lunch on top 😆 there was so much stuff I could of bought and DH would have if he was with us but need to rein it in this month as expensive enough as it is!

@DKDK123 I have thankfully never seen the gummy bear Christmas film but thanks for the heads up to avoid!

@Vil10 seems a bit daft a dog friendly hotel wouldn't allow them alone for an hour or two but I've never taken a dog to a hotel so what do I know 😆

I'm not moving off this bus it's the best 🥰

@Sunbird24 that's exactly what I'm thinking?? They have a bar area that you can sit at for breakfast if with dogs but dinner and tea have to be had in the main restaurant where dogs aren't allowed?

@DKDK123 they've been left in loads of different places before, b&b's, lodges, camping, they're really good at new surroundings! If someone came into the room they didn't know like room service, the older one would just go back to sleep and the younger would roll over to stroke his tummy, I doubt they'd even get up🤣 that's a good idea on the puppy cam though!! We already have one of them from when OH got the older dog years ago, I might just take it! Thankyou!! Annoying when people blame your dog isn't it, the same happened with us, someone who lives across the road saw us at the pub and went "tell you what, your dogs don't half yap" I thought well theyre springers so they don't yap anyway and rarely ever bark, turned out he meant our neighbours who have 2 very yappy annoying dogs!!

@JuniperAndTonic I have everything crossed for you🤞🏼 we originally booked just an apartment that was god friendly but I didn't want to leave them there in case anyone could access it, I felt they were more safe in actual dog hotel!

@paintfairy mine are actually fine, they're really well behaved and just sleep and chill when left somewhere new, we never leave them for any amount of time, just if we go out for tea and they can't come, considering they go to work with OH everyday you'd think they'd hate it but it's like they enjoy their own time🤣 they just put recommend it isn't actually a rule so presume they can't act on it if they are left for an hour or so

@2020mission I have faith that all these lovely ladies will be on the bump list! Oh no they definitely wouldn't be left overnight, the Thursday we're at the chocolate museum for an hour in the afternoon, then at night out for tea and drinks from 8-10, and will be going back and walking them round in between, then the Saturday they'll be left for 3 hours max! Aw shame on the markets but everything else sounds lovely, stuff like that has a proper American vibe dont you think!! We're obviously going to go to the castle and walk down Royal mile and go to the Christmas markets, then we have the chocolate museum/tour booked, camera obscura museum booked, cold town house roof terrace and then booked the Thai restaurant chaophraya then a bar afterwards, we said about doing the Arthur's seat walk but we're going to see how the weather is!

@bez91 exactly my thought?? And it's literally a hotel made for dogs, like they have their own gated garden area for them, so it's not like it's an inconvenience that they're there!! This bus is the best isn't it!!

@Haiyaa I've actually never seen either of them, I'll need to give them a watch. The annoying thing is I have the movies on dvd but we no longer have a dvd player and I dotn fancy watching it on the small laptop screen. It jsut annoys me you can buy the dvds new on amazon for £3 but it costs over £10 to buy them digitally 🤔 The grinch was on offer digitally tho so we went for that.

@vil10 if the dogs are used to staying in new places on their own for a while I think you'll be fine. Tho the hotel is missing a trick, if they've got their own gated area and stuff and target it as a hotel for dog owners why not have a doggy daycare where you can book them in for an hour or two to play with the other dogs while the owners go out for dinner etc. That would definitely be popular I think!

@Vil10 the side car is minsters pregnancy bus that's been running a good old while. You'll find it on the first page in the pregnancy forum.

Ahhh ok sorry question from the New passenger.... so the clear blue test said not to read after 10 minutes is that because it'll give off a false result or an evaporated line?

I should maybe add a little more to that, so I am 8DPO and feel so so sick, keep burping, puking in my mouth if I bend over too much, have a headache and feel bloated so I caved in and used one of my Clear blue tests even though I said I wouldn't before 10th ... waited the 3 min and it looked negative which I expected as too early but then just looked again now a good while later and there is an odd line 🤷🏻‍♀️

@LoveQ eek I think you just need to wait it out. 10po should give a better reading!

For anyone needing a good giggle...

Oh My GOD I’m so embarrassed!! Please tell me you’ve done something similar 😭 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4413599-Oh-My-GOD-I-m-so-embarrassed-Please-tell-me-you-ve-done-something-similar

@LoveQ definitely try again in a couple of days, 8dpo is still very early

@LoveQ yeah after 10 min they can give false positives. Tbh CB blue dye tests are notorious for them (@lucyrp had a super positive one that was SHOCKING when everything else was a BFN and she def wasn't pregnant) so I'd stock up on cheap pink tests for your POAS needs and have back up FRERs for special occasions lol. Ie when the cheapies lead you to believe there's actually something there! I use easy@home cheapies and they're really good and reliable I think.

I'm just going to grab a seat so I don't lose you 😉 don't worry franklydear my cycle buddy, I'll be back for the crazy bit of the tww 🤣

@Manifestingbaby we can get crazy together 🥰

@becarefuloutthere and @juno231 yeah I did think so, I shouldn't have pulled it back out to take a look 🤣🤣
I'll stick to my cheap boots strips for now, need to just chill out lol!

@Juno231 omg yeah do you remember they were so bad ! @LoveQ not good these were my silly lines after reading after the time limit and as Juno says I definitely wasn't preggerz

@becarefuloutthere 🤣 brilliant thread!
I remember once in our office (small ish) slagging off fake drawn on eyebrows. One of the temps there had never been out with us before and we were literally going out that night.
She rocked up later with a wig on and massive fake eyebrows. All the other people I worked with found it hilarious. 🤣 Turns out she always went out looking like that. Meanwhile I was thinking- me and my big mouth. 🙄

Evening ladies, back after a crap internet day, busy putting lights up etc

@JuniperAndTonic hey and welcome back, sorry to see you here again & the milestones are very tough. My second pregnancy would have been due on Xmas day this year & I'm so pleased to be pregnant again by the date as it's really tough, hope it's another short ride 🤞🏻

@larrythelizard we can add clumsy to the symptom spotting list of course!

@Vil10 if we aren't taking a crate with us then we have always shut the dogs in the bathroom (assuming it has one) just in case of the furniture but we knew they won't cry or do anything for a few hours, they'll be fine though @DKDK123's idea for a dog sitting service is good!

@Haiyaa adding "klaus" to my list

@paintfairy you are on the bumps list right??? Just not the newly promoted bit, I did that as a December bit sorry it's just the way I log things

@Juno231 @Vil10 hop over onto the grad bus when you want to talk preg & baby stuff it's lovely to have another group coming through at the same time, though don't forget if we do a uk tour we are stopping in at various places on here! @Franklydear that includes the seaside

@LoveQ yes as the others have said unfortunately the clear blue tests are notoriously bad at giving different results after the time frame, but if you have an FRER for tomorrow morning at 9dpo you can try that? The pink dye are always the best we've found (well, when there's something to show!) however the cheap boots ones are very good too so at 10 & 11dpo mine showed up on one of those as well as FRER & easy@home like @Juno231 said

@Manifestingbaby glad you've hopped on & look after yourself for the next couple of weeks 🥰💗

God you forget how bad they were @lucyrp

Sone decorations up, will do a picture tomorrow as aga currently covered in washing 😂

Oooo need to read that thread in bed @becarefuloutthere, any more embarrassing stories from ppl?

@LoveQ just watch out for what sensitivity boots tests are? Eg FRERs are 6.5miu so detect very early - easy@home are 10miu so v good for cheapies but then you get lots of brands that require 25miu of HCG before they detect anything so they're pretty useless.

@lucyrp yes that's it! Thank you for sharing the pic.

@paintfairy and a wig??

@Minster2012 I forgot to say thank you for the new bus ❤️

Oh just saw minster say the boots ones are good, ignore me @LoveQ

@Juno231 🤣 I probably should have explained- she was a black lady. And didn't have loads of hair. So she used to wear wigs to go out, although it looked real. Obviously we only knew because we knew her. There was still no need for the eyebrows though. 🤣 This was back when the fad was relatively new.

I was also imagining many wig horrors @paintfairy

Ooooooo @blackcurrantqueen you are seeing "six" at the theatre? I'd love to see that

Yeah my boots ones are 10miu I think so not too bad.

@lucyrp that's so bad isn't it, I'll try and post mine, I shouldn't have looked 🤣

Will carry on with the boots ones x

@paintfairy ah that makes more sense. My SIL draws on horrendous eyebrows like ten shades darker than her hair - it's sooo bad 😆