🎄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.

@Juno231 it looks so ridiculous. I'm a very down to earth person. So all the fake stuff just makes no sense to me. If its subtle then fine, but when you see them coming before anything else, I just don't get it? 🤣

Ha I feel like now is a good time to tell you I'm sitting with tint on my eyebrows waiting until it's time to wash them off!!

Def unreliable that @LoveQ I'm afraid and annoyingly it makes you even more twitchy and obsessive of course. Damn them 😂

@larrythelizard @paintfairy @Juno231 I also "draw in my eyebrows" as mine are really fine and I got a tent pole to the face when younger & so have a gap in one bit I'm not sure it's THAT noticeable

@Minster2012 @larrythelizard I fill mine in cause I have sparse Asian eyebrows but SIL literally paints on the eyebrows of the dad in American pie and she's strawberry blonde otherwise 😆

I thought you were Swedish @Juno231?

@Minster2012 aha! And here we thought minster remembered everything with her elephant's memory 😅. I'm quarter Chinese. Born and raised in Sweden but actually not ethnically Swedish at all... 🤷

Aaarrrrrgh! I didn’t know there were two types of opks, I got the pink ones, I’ll have to change the holder won’t I? Obviously the purple holder said error

@Juno231 yes "filing them in" is me too, my hair is fine and mousy brown so I do have to add to the old brows when I wear makeup

@Franklydear the Clearblue ones? Yes I think there are. I think the pink ones are cheaper if I remember right but yes not compatible 😫

@bez91 and now I can’t find the wake up stick for the pink one

No I'm more just an elephant @Juno231 🐘ah yes you've said that before, a beautiful original cocktail you! How you feeling today, sunk in yet?

@Franklydear I shall see if I've got any of the purple sticks left xx

How is everyone else @LoveQ do you have a non clear blue test in the house? Or keeping your piss in a pot til you can get one??

@Shock123 have you tested again?

Happy Monday peeps xx

Ooo we haven't heard from @Hann91, @Bundaberg84 & @MrsBiddy in a while are you still here?

@Minster2012 still here! I've just had a full on festive week 🎅🏼. Cycle day 41, AF is 8 days late, still no sign of her and it's starting to bother me now.
I can see there's a lot to catch up on here! Congratulations to everyone with their bfps! 💕

Loving the eyebrow chat! I fill mine in too as I basically have no hairs. I had semi permanent make up done to them a couple years back so do have some colour now although faded so have to fill mine in. I also sometimes wear wigs (good ones 😏) so hopefully I wouldn't remind you too much of your work colleague @paintfairy 😆 💁🏾‍♀️

@becarefuloutthere I love some of the wigs I'd see in my old office. One thing that cracked me up though is that apparently in Tanzania it's not that uncommon to wear two wigs at once??

@Juno231 a quarter Chinese? Well that accounts for you not being blonde. 🤣 What's the other 3/4?

I think filling them in subtly is fine. It's when people draw them massively on and they look so fake it's ridiculous. I can never stop looking at it. 🤣 @becarefuloutthere she actually randomly got pregnant from nowhere and had a baby. So she left. No OH. So a few definite dissimilarities. 🤣

I quite like the idea of micro blading but never been brave enough to do it, and the thought of the week after where they're scabby and you can't wash or anything puts me off.

@Hann91 oh that's annoying. Have you got PCOS or anything that makes for wonky cycles?

Temp dip at CD29 so AF on her way, desperately hoping to get to CD31 so that's a 10 day LP so I'm not completely broken...I was reading up on luteal phase defects last night before bed which wasn't the most comforting bedtime reading!

Last week of (pointless) 8am training so life will be easier after this week!

Hiya, I joined you in October briefly as I had had an early miscarriage and you were all really kind and gave me some good information on tracking periods / ovulation etc

Well today I got this, thank you all for being so lovely before, your advice really helped!

@larrythelizard not that I know of. My cycles are fairy regular, 30-33 days. I've had on and off left side cramps for over 2 weeks so maybe my left ovary is knackered or I'm just thinking stuff up 🤷‍♀️. I think if I went to my GP they would just fob me off.

My luteal phase started off at 9 days but gradually built up to 10-12. I started taking vit b6 last month as I read it can lengthen luteal phase but don't try that as it could be why this cycle has messed up 🤦🏼‍♀️. I have the flo app and many women on their have a short luteal phase and haven't had any issues getting bfps.

@Minster2012 i haven't no, double checked the boots ones and they're only 25miu so I am going to pop to boots after work today and pick it a first response one x

@larrythelizard I seem to see lots of women with shortish LPs that still get their bfps so hopefully nothing to worry about! I think if you get implantation at like 6-7 dpo anyway then it works?

@McOrange aw congratulations! Any idea how many dpo you are? Fingers crossed it's a sticky bean this time X

@paintfairy it's a bit outing but who cares at this point - I'm also quarter Danish (that explains my surname) and half Polish. English is my fourth language so I'm a proper mongrel! So Sweden feels like home and I've lived on the French Riviera as a kid so France also feels like part of my identity. I'd spend every single summer at my granny's in Nice growing up after we moved away. Love that part of the world ❤️

Just realised I'm 14dpo today and not 13 like I kept thinking. Maths on a Monday morning isn't my forte apparently.

@LoveQ ah so I wasn't crazy about them being 25miu! I'm excited for your test today

[quote Juno231]@larrythelizard I seem to see lots of women with shortish LPs that still get their bfps so hopefully nothing to worry about! I think if you get implantation at like 6-7 dpo anyway then it works?

@McOrange aw congratulations! Any idea how many dpo you are? Fingers crossed it's a sticky bean this time X

@paintfairy it's a bit outing but who cares at this point - I'm also quarter Danish (that explains my surname) and half Polish. English is my fourth language so I'm a proper mongrel! So Sweden feels like home and I've lived on the French Riviera as a kid so France also feels like part of my identity. I'd spend every single summer at my granny's in Nice growing up after we moved away. Love that part of the world ❤️

Just realised I'm 14dpo today and not 13 like I kept thinking. Maths on a Monday morning isn't my forte apparently.[/quote]
Thank you I’m 19 DPO. I tested today after 5 days late, I thought my cycle was just a bit wonky about the previous MC!

@Minster2012 thanks, it is really tough! Definitely hoping I get a BFP before what should have been the due date! Also, the due date would have been a day after my wedding anniversary which makes it even worse! Already planning to do something special as a distraction, whether I’m pregnant or not!

I have no idea about eyebrows, I’m useless with anything like that! Mine are quite fair but I think they look okay so I just leave them as they are! My sister once plucked them for me and I cried I hated it so much! 😂

@McOrange you're probably not quite 19dpo based on your line - sounds like you ovulated late after your MC!

@JuniperAndTonic omg don't, that's why I could never have mine done professionally - too high risk 😆