🎄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.

I don't make any changes in the TWW @Cecelia90 but then this is cycle 11 and no pregnancy so not sure I'm the best person to answer this...!

@Cecelia90 I don't exercise much but I know one of my friends who did exercise but changed regime throughout her pregnancy until the end :)

Well, ladies, you’ll be happy to know that the doctor has given me a couple of weeks off, I’m trying to do too much, not unusual for vulnerable patients to take weeks even a couple of months to recover, and then a phased return, oh dear, I don’t have the most understanding of employers, I am going to be such a nuisance

I think that's a good thing @Franklydear, recovering properly is so important! Stuff what work thinks, your health is more important!

@cecelia90 I was still running strenously till 22 weeks so I wouldn't worry 😊
@franklydear I'm glad you're getting some time to recover and recuperate, sod work!

Alice is still poorly, keeping a close eye as she's wheezing a bit 😭

Poor little bubs @Kirky658. Have you got one of the Calpol plugs? they might help (although unsure if OK for under 6 months?)

So I have felt sick yesterday and today. Assuming it's a bit of what DS had (or might be my body's reaction to my reducing my sugar intake massively) but my mind is obviously overthinking it. Also a bit bloaty and crampy. Much running to the toilet to check things. 9dpo so would be pointless testing yet anyway - maybe the end of the week if still no AF.

Fucking brain, not even meant to be trying at the moment!

@larrythelizard yep got one of those bad boys, deffo helped with the stuffy nose!

Late check in from the driver

Do we have anyone opening the BFP advent calendar door today?

Welcome @Cecelia90 hope the others have made you feel welcome...do you have an embarrassing story for us?! And yeah I was always told to not twist by both my clinic & the RMC so we tend to go by that mantra 😂

@MrsBiddy we will try do what we can to assist the weight loss 🤞🏻

@LoveQ there's still time don't worry, you aren't out

@larrythelizard any sign of af today? That's a decent LP then. Ahhh just read but of sickness. You see we can't turn our brains off 😂

Hope your first & second day were good @kaylsd

Right off to a 4 year old birthday party now

@Kirky658 oh poor you and Alice, that sounds really stressful for you 😢 lots of cuddles and TLC all round! Trust your mummy instincts if she doesn't sound right don't hesitate to get her checked out xx

@Franklydear glad your dr has signed you off sounds like you need the forced recovery time!! Don't you worry about work, DS needs you better! 😘

@kaylsd glad your first day at work was ok! How are you feeling?? Has it sunk in yet?

@larrythelizard ooh sickness bug orrrr....
sorry will switch my brain off for you too! 😂

@Franklydear time off sounds good. Its tough isn't it, if your boss doesn't like it.
@Kirky658 I'm sorry Alice isn't well. Calpol plug? How times have changed! 🤣 Hopefully she's better soon.
@Minster2012 a 4 years old party? Sounds lovely! 🤣 I hope there is cake!

@paintfairy yes, it is what it is, it's just this year I am taking 7 months off in total, with shielding and now COVID, but yes, tough I guess
@blackcurrantqueen yes, I do need to be forced, luckily she knows that and doesn't take no for an answer, neither does she care about work
@larrythelizard @Kirky658 yes, recovering properly is the only job, and Xmas, looks like is just us in the UK again, and what is this sorcery you talk about, Calpol plug? I seem to remember an apparatus you use to suck the snot out of your baby, you don't wanna know really....

Haha no @Franklydear not one of those, it's like a glade air freshener plug in but with lovely menthol fumes

I know @blackcurrantqueen. I've been here before though, feeling sick in the LP then AF turns up. Also no sore boobs which was the tell for the other times I've got a BFP. So am assuming it's knowing the toddler had a sickness bug and my brain taking over.

Out tonight so will assess how the wine tastes...!

I have been AWOL for a whole month as tried to put TTC out of my head and omg I have missed some amazing news!! All these BFPs I have missed!! @Juno231 @Vil10 congratulations!!!!!! I feel like I need to read back over the last month now to see what happened!!!!

@paintfairy yesssss last I saw you were PUPO and had everything crossed for you - amazing news!!

@Sunbird24 and @kaylsd more congratulations!!!! And @McOrange !!

Gosh all these BFPs it's going to be a dry Christmas isn't it!

I have exciting news of my own, I have tested this morning at 8dpo and have a very faint line. So could go either way. But it is definitely there and OH sees it too so it's real. For now at least! After 5 miscarriages I'm actually just feeling terrified but I'm under the care of a private clinic now taking a raft of medication so here's hoping #6 will be a sticky bean!

Hi all. So I left the last bus for a few weeks and I've just read up on everything I missed - holy shit! Congratulations @Sunbird24 and @Juno231 and @kaylsd Absolutely fantastic news! I'm thrilled for you. I should feck off for a few weeks more often! And congrats to @Amy00 too.

So I left because I was starting to feel that everyone I know is pregnant hahaha. And the last bus was not helping.

Also I'm renovating my house and living between my parents' house and hotels which is shite. I'm exhausted and stressed. We have a level orange storm here and I had to travel across the county to make it to work this morning only for my boss to not show up herself. I've been up since 4.30am so I'm pretty tired.

Anyway I had my next fertility clinic appointment today and it wasn't great. She basically said she didn't know why I wasn't getting pregnant and to try IVF. She told me to try for the free IVF cycle that doesn't exist so I have no idea what the fuck she was on about. How a supposed fertility specialist on the public system doesn't know that IVF isn't offered on the public system in Ireland is beyond me.

Anyway I don't have money for IVF so that's that for now. I have an appointment in February with a private clinic on the off chance I win the lotto and they said I can't take letrozole for 2 cycles before that so I can't even keep that up, though she said if 6 months of ovulation stimulation hadn't worked by now it probably won't. Also there are really long backlogs at the IVF clinic so nothing will he happening for me for a while.

And now my husband just called as I was writing this and he gave out to me for asking him to bring things from the house to the hotel that apparently are already in my suitcase and he's made me cry. I'm sorry that I can't remember where everything I own is when I live between 2 houses and several hotels for the last 3 weeks you asshole. I'm a mess today 🙃

@vil10 thank you hun :)
@franklydear nows the time to focus on yourself and your well-being the best you can whilst you’ve got this time off work ❤️ try not to worry too much about work and what they think (I know it’s easier said than done) it’ll be still there whenever your ready to go back
@kirky658 sending lots of hugs over to you and little Alice I hope she recovers soon 🥺 I saw today in home bargains vicks tea light candles? I wonder if they are safe to use in rooms with little ones I’m too sure?
@minster2012 it was fab thank you! They seem really supportive and the environment feels positive under the circumstances so I’m happy to get stuck in :), enjoy the party!
@blackcurrantqueen I’m still very much in shock about it 🤣 I know I need to ring the clinic to cancel our IVF appointments but I can’t bring myself to do it after this long battle!
How are you?
@amy00 thank you hunny and a provisional congratulations also 🥺🥺🤞🏻 how are you feeling about the situation? Welcome back ❤️😘
@somatronic thank you hunny, I’m sorry to read about your appointment summary, are the clinic thinking are you guys unexplained fertility? I’m sending you all the luck in the world to win a radio comp or this morning comp or lottery to get your fund 🥺❤️ could it be worth looking into fertility clinics what offer finance as a option?

That's a good thread @Franklydear 😂 good you've got some time to recover.. sod work! Oh yes the snot thing you refer to we call the "snot machine" helpful when they can't blow their own nose!

@kaylsd great that you enjoyed the new job, hope it continues!

@larrythelizard argh it's tough mind playing tricks. Is DS much better?

@Amy00 eeeeee tentative congratulations 🤗

@Somatronic I remember you saying you were going to be in a hotel, what a nightmare. House renovations are hard going as they are let alone with TTC on top of. I can't believe nothing is funded that's really crappy, hoping for that lotto win for you. Hugs

@Amy00 congratulations! Fingers crossed. 🤞
@kaylsd I wouldn't rush to cancel it. Because you'll likely find you won't be able to just pick it back up, should this go wrong. Because you've proved you can do it naturally. I would wait until after an early scan or something?
@Somatronic oh what a nightmare. Did you not question her on the imaginary ivf? Ours was pretty much unexplained too.
And bloody men. Arseholes. 🙄

Thanks @bez91 The renovations are taking twice as long as the builder said so it's annoying. My parents might help out with a loan for IVF but it would be hard for me to ask them. I'll see how it goes. I haven't been able to bring myself to ask so far and I can't borrow any more because we have 2 credit union loans (car and renovation) and a mortgage.

@kaylsd I have PCOS but she reckons there must be something else because they are sure I was ovulating in the last 3 months. "There may be something microscopic". No idea.

Oh that sucks @Somatronic. Hopefully house Reno will be worth it in the end.

Tentative congrats @Amy00, hope this is the one!

Yes I think he is @bez91, passed the magic 48hour window with no more poo so back to nursery tomorrow lunch 👏🏼

Prosecco tastes normal so clearly just mind games for me!

@kaylsd it's way too soon to cancel it id say! If they find out you managed to get pregnant on your own it you'd have to wait another year I think before you'd be eligible again (you can get IVF after a year if you have MFI or other known problems I think? For me with unexplained I'd have to wait two years).

@amy00 eeek congratulations - I really hope the meds help it stick this time! Come join the BFP group when you're ready.

@Somatronic that sounds absolute shite - and living out of a suitcase will be really mentally draining too. How much longer do you have slum it for?

@bez91 I hope so it continues I just hope it wasn’t a big show for my first day but never know 🤣
@somatronic could you be referred to Gynae to help with whatever they are predicting with you for the microscope? My friend was similar and they offered ovarian drilling with clomid after and caught on 🥺🤞🏻if I hear any tips on the lotto numbers I shall send them your way! I've never actually done the lotto before because I get scared if my numbers came out one day and I didn't back it I'll be so pissed off
@juno231 @paintfairy I know it’s early to cancel just was worrying as my first appointment for AFC/AMH is on the 14th, I’ve emailed them last night with a tiny white lie to say my works put me on a two week chemo course what I must attend so won’t let me have time off work for appointments but will honour any dates in January to push it back into January so it gives me space rather than cancelling next weeks fully so hopefully they can do that 🤞🏻 I hate lying but I know it’s for the right reasons this one

Lying is generally shit @kaylsd but worth it in this case, I can see it wouldn't be abnormal to not be able to make medical stuff in a new job. I've had to move a filling I need from Nov to Jan because of a work meeting - it all feels too new still to choose personal stuff over important meetings!

Will fully check in a bit but just wanted to say good luck @paintfairy it's your scan today right?

Well ladies having got excited about my very faint line yesterday, I did a FRER this morning and it is snowy white 😩 although I also did a cheapie and there is still a very faint line on there. Still early days at 9dpo but it isn't looking hopeful 😔

@Minster2012 🤣 I wish! No, they wouldn't do it until next week when I'll be 8 weeks. So still got more torture to go.