🎄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.

Oooh congratulations @McOrange that’s a strong line! And yes @Minster2012 definitely gives me hope, thank you! 🤞🏻

ITS CHRIIIIIIIIIIISTMASSSSSSSSSS

placemarking to keep an eye on those festive eggs 🧑🏼‍🎄

@larrythelizard I had mine micro bladed earlier this year and it wasn't that bad. They numb them for you and now I don't even touch them 👍🏼 I had very thin ones that wouldn't grow back after thinking I was a cool teen plucking them to death..!! Try it @Minster2012 it was my friend who did mine and she did them subtle for me as she knows I hate drawn on duff, and on my 6 week top up she added a bit more depth as I loved them but wanted a little more darkness.

I'm like @paintfairy - I prefer simple I and my brows done just to make life easier and throw a bit of eye liner on and I'm done day to day! I'd rather have an extra half hour in bed 🤣🤣

Oh wow @Juno231 that's pretty awesome heritage and childhood, I love that!!

@McOrange so erm can survive for 5 days I believe which would mean still there for. Slate ovulation. Plus FMU is always best too - and I just saw your update! That's a definite BFP!! Congratulations you opened todays advent window 🎉

@Minster2012 im missing out my best mate is 1/2 Chinese and can't cook for shit!! 🤣🤣 Altho he dad could, and the restaurants he took us to growing up were immense, so much better than any meal/take away I've ever tasted! More authentic and things I'd never heard or seen before!

@Lexber I had a Chinese friend that took me to restaurants and insisted they give me the real menu, not available to westerners, but because of that they didn’t let me use cutlery, but she moved away, it was so much better

Another day spent in bed and feel much better, @Minster2012 today it would be the 8th smiley so can’t be long, luckily we’re catching up on lost time too

@Franklydear yeah we used chopsticks and we use to go to a restaurant then go through the back or up stairs and there was a whole new dining area not for westerners where the menus were in actual Chinese and they'd talk in their native tongue and next minute food started coming out - absolutely amazing

@InkyPaper what on earth. On one hand its Christmas and nothing would get done anyway until January. I had my consultation on a Thursday and my plan was signed off by early the next week and I had my drugs arrive by the Friday. Mad rush mind. So within a week and 2 days I had actually started meds. So her not signing it off way before is probably not actually a huge issue. However, that is shit and there must be more than one bloody dr who can do it? I thought they annoyed me, you seem to be having it even worse. Its your punishment for having tissue. 🤣
@Lexber I don't even put make up on for daily life. Definitely would rather be in bed! 😁
@McOrange Congratulations!
@Juno231 All sounds perfectly reasonable. I think I'd have picked a warmer country mind? 🤔🤣

I'm very angry today. Also- I read i am allowed a bath as long as its 98f or below. I translated this to my language which is 37-38 degrees. So I decided to have a bath as my back hurts and sometimes it does help with wind. Only- it wasn't relaxing at all, because how can you relax when you are pissing freezing?! I got out shivering and I'm more likely to have hyperthermia than have overheated. 🥶 That's the end of that then!

On the eyebrow chat, one of my colleagues recently got her eyebrows tinted, she's fair hair but they came out way darker than she'd expected. One of our pupils (given they're autistic with no filter) likes to reminder her on a daily basis that she has had an 'eyebrow fail' 😂 its lucky we're all thick skinned and laugh off when they point out the obvious.

@franklydear you were just having no luck at all with those sticks this morning where you? Did you get then sorted in the end?

@larrythelizard hope AF stayed away to lengthen your LP. Actually scrap that hope it just stays away and gives you 2 lines instead of a longer LP!

Congratulations @mcorange the FR definitely is a dye stealer 🥳

@juno231 what a mixed bag you are indeed.....tho change the wording mongrel to you're an exotic mix 😉

Loving the sign @Minster2012

Oh @InkyPaper you really couldn't write all the admin troubles you're having lately 🙈

@DKDK123 you gotta love the honesty, no, I got more sticks, but didn’t realise they were the wrong kind, can’t find the wake up stick of the ones I have so...🙈anyways I had 7 days of flashing smileys so can’t be long now, I’ll get more purple ones for next cycle, for now we are carrying on, no pun intended, and see what happens

I’ve been looking online and this postcovid headaches can last for weeks! Any advice? I have the morning off tomorrow, if I even decide to go to work, so I’ll give the doctor a call

@DKDK123 that reminds me of my youngest (ASD) daughter I had mine HF and they start much darker at first and she took one look and told me they looked terrible and she preferred them how they were... 🤣 I tried to explain why there were so dark and she responded with "I hope so for your Benefit" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 luckily when you have an honest autistic daughter you learn to have thick skin and find their honesty amusing at times...

@paintfairy I don't most days 🤣 Altho I also go to go out much at the minute

Hello all!

Not had a chance to catch up on here, congrats to any bfp's! And sprinkling baby dust on you all!!!

Had my first nhs fertility phone call last week, which I knew what they were going to say, but still upset me! Bmi is too high needs to be under 30 ☹️ which is about 4st 😭 can barely lose 1st with pcos let alone 4! 😩
She said she would do blood tests and mention that the last blood test was in Aug, which I then told her I was referred via nhs to a private hospital to have bloods and internal scans, she said they don't have access to that info and if I knew what the results were (which I haven't been told yet) 🤔 just find it stupid how they can't see it, even though referred on behalf of the nhs 😂🙄 oh well!
She wants my husband to have a sperm analysis aswell, but this is all they will do until my bmi is under 35. 😑

Have been away the past 4days in Cornwall for our 1st anniversary and had a nice relaxing time, eating and drinking whatever I bloody wanted 🙂 and lots of sex too 😏🤣 been using my OvuSense but no opks this month.

Starting my diet Wednesday 😑😓☹️

Hope everyone is well xx

@MrsBiddy I need to lose a bit of weight too, maybe we can come up with nice low calorie lunches and things together ....

@MrsBiddy remind me are you on Metformin?

Oh @InkyPaper that's so bloody frustrating it is one thing after another. And ALL of it waiting 😣

@Lexber adding "microblading" to the potential list & your friend needs cooking lessons. The Chinese and Cantonese food is so damn good

@Franklydear that's good making up for it, & feeling better, I will have a look for the sticks tomorrow I'm sorry nightmare day. However, I started looking on Pinterest last night for "baby crochet" and fell down a gorgeous rabbit hole 🥰you have to use the same wake up stick for the sake holder I think though but I will see what I have

@paintfairy I have baths. Hot ones. You just have to make sure it's not lots and it doesn't raise your core temperature so doesn't make you sweat. But it was something I always asked the clinic & they said it's fine just make sure you don't sweat.

Eyebrow fail @DKDK123 🤪

@MrsBiddy I hope you had a lovely time away. More admin fail for the ivf then. Do have a look at those workouts, the EMKFit ones on you tube. But look at it this way, she said they won't do more until your BMI is under 35 which means they can start before your BMI is under 30 so can you use that as a smaller target to get you through to start with?

@Minster2012 send me pics and I'll see what I can magic up

Hi can I hop on the bus? Im on CD15 ovulated CD13. AF due 18th. First month trying so trying to not get carried away but oh to have a Christmas BBF 😍

@Juno231

Yeah, x3 Metformin and higher dose of folic

@Minster2012
Yes thank you, had a hot tub so it was good 😍 she said bmi of 35 to do a scan 🤷🏻‍♀️ and bmi to actually give me some drugs 🤷🏻‍♀️

Xx

I did a FRER test this evening, definitely negative I know I'm only 10DPO but I'd say I'm out for this month because of the sore boobs 😕
I just don't get all the nauseous feeling and other bits 🤷🏻‍♀️

Oh that's annoying @MrsBiddy. Good motivation though? I'm going to be hitting the diet hard in Jan, I'm vaguely calorie counting atm but not strictly. It's low carb you need to do for PCOS isn't it? Happy to buddy up with you and @Franklydear and keep ourselves accountable!

Welcome @Cecelia90 I hope this is a short bus ride for you

No AF yet, I reckon tomorrow though as I've been crampy and temp started to drop this morning. I think that's 9 days so not as bad as I feared!

@larrythelizard
Yeah, it is as I have always been a bigger girl throughout school and adulthood. It's motivation but still feel sad 😞

Yeah that would be a great idea 😊

Yeah I think eating lower carb helps maintain blood sugar x
Xmas I will enjoy myself but try and not go too crazy lol

@paintfairy oh God of course!! It's the tissue! 🤣 Yeah, I'm locked in admin hell. Such fun!

@Minster2012 my life is just endless waiting punctuated by periods of high stress 😂🙈

Found a good one www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4419968-What-is-your-favourite-conspiracy-theory

@McOrange congratulations on your dye stealer! 🥺🥺🥺🥰 hopefully the next 9 Months is smooth for you, try not to worry too much but know we are here for you
@dmb91 fingers and toes crossed AF comes soon it’s so annoying when cycles don’t return, mine did at first the disappeared for a long time :(
@larrythelizard the 3 month goal can get you motivated to be in the healthiest mind frame you can be ready for March 🥰
@inkypaper so pleased to hear that they have finally received the results hopefully it’s good news for you both and the ball can get rolling!
@mrsbiddy nice to hear you had a lovely break away, sending hugs from the fertility call you’ve got this girl xxxx
@Minster2012 Touching on the eyebrow chat I have mine microbladed 😬 it’s like being scratched quite a lot in the same place for some time when they are doing it 🤣🤣🤣 but they don’t need drawing in or anything on a night out and last in colour for a while so I’m happy 😃 had them done now over last 3 years and just get them topped up every 12 month :)

Sorry if I’ve missed much girls had my first day in my post yesterday and absolutely loved it 🥺🥺🥰🥰 hope everyone is well

Do you guys avoid strenuous exercise during the TWW? I’ve got a HIIT workout class tomorrow should I skip it? Even if I try and slack off she will have me sweating buckets

@Cecelia90 not really, but we have a don’t twist theory, courtesy of minsters fertility clinic

@Minster2012 love the laugh sign!! Very sweet!!

@becarefuloutthere hahaha well Thankyou lovely! I mean when I was younger they did not look like that, Jesus🤣

@InkyPaper oh I'm really sorry it feels like nothing is going right, they're just shit aren't they!! At least you have Christmas to try and distract you from it all!!

@MrsBiddy I can imagine thst being frustrating!! However what a good motivator! Try and start off small and slow, see more as a lifestyle adjustment rather than just a quick fix x

@Cecelia90 welcome! I never did, and I was doing some hard core pt's in the days leading up to af when I'd actually conceived, but Minster did tell me no twisting, so no abs etc

@kaylsd so glad your first day went well!!