🎵 Anyone for a spot of Sunday Evening Xylophone? 🌈 TTC Bus 52 🚌

[polkadotpixie]

Soooo....@Minster2012 is letting the lunatics take over the asylum as she's handing over the driving seat to the passengers and having a well deserved rest after driving us around since June 2020!

I'm sure she'll still be around and you can follow her on Instagram (Minstermusings) where a lot of passengers and ex-passengers have their own TTC or normal accounts too (just be careful not to out anyone on their non-TTC accounts!)

We have a fabulous history of BFPs on this thread since @Minster2012 took over and we need to keep it up...no slacking!

Anything goes and NOTHING is TMI on this bus! Whether you're doing it the old fashioned way or with some help from science, we're all waiting for those 2 pink lines and are here to support each other and try to stay (somewhat) sane along the way

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 BFPs
November 4 BFPs
December 5 BFPs

Still on for the ride are our fabulous passengers:

@Franklydear
@polkadotpixie
@dmb91
@pennysays
@Sausage1990
@MrsBiddy
@manifestingbaby
@chiatta
@Hann91
@LoveQ
@BellatrixK
@JuniperAndTonic
@user1019273703

IVF/IUI/ICSI/Clomid passengers as well as TTC on the side!
@somatronic
@Dollybird89
@pennysays
@InkyPaper

Already promoted to the Bumps list but still hopping on the bus to keep us company:

@clairey844
@blackcurrantqueen
@lucyrp
@Catherinettc
@Ltay2
@BlondePotter
@Clairey844
@Gem176
@kirky658
@justanothercyster
@2020mission
@Hopeful110
@becarefuloutthere
@crazydoglady123
@Haiyaa
@lexber
@whatwonder
@bez91
@DKDK123
@minster2012
@feliznavidad2
@clolo
@gcat16
@paintfairy
@Bea14
@vil10
@juno231
@sunbird24
@kaylsd
@larrythelizard

Apologies to anyone missed...40 pages is a lot!

New passengers always welcome and an embarrassing story buys you a cheap ticket...Beep Beeeeeep!

@Franklydear big temp drop for me this morning too. Suspect af today or tomorrow. Time to take care or ourselves.

Meh and meh @Franklydear and @pennysays sending love x

😔😔😔@Franklydear & @pennysays

I'm starting Friday with the dog PIAP wonder how many lines she'll get?! Or a smiley face? Mine won't be Smokey if they say lots of meds 🤨

Sorry everyone, I typed a message yesterday then lost it.

@inkypaper there’s so much emotional news for you. I’m praying for a sticky baby for you. Just reminder that you are PUPO.

@lakejupiter Oh wow! You’ve been though a lot this cycle! Well done for managing though. You’ve covered it really well.

I’m fully on board with both banana AND Yorkshire puddings. Yorkshires are the centre of every good roast: I love them! And I love anything banana, especially banana ice cream and those foam sweets! Excellent reminder @becarefuloutthere

@franklydear and @pennysays
Sorry about to my AF cycle twins. I’m probably joining you today or tomorrow.

I am fully miserable. Temp down (on my watch), RHR down, negative test … decidedly out! And I ended up with a migraine yesterday… properly need to cheer myself up for weekend!

@Franklydear @pennysays looks like an unlucky cycle for all us twins; I was so confident this month, not just symptom wise (never had breasts like that, wow hello!) but also had this "feeling". 2 days overdue, thought that's very telling. But no, stark white BFN. Even if I ovulated late, which would be weird but not impossible of course, I'd be out because I was away the next week.
@BellatrixK I feel you. I'm so miserable. Also bad headaches, at least now I know I can take something against it. And will drink tomorrow.

I'm sorry about the periods and negative tests ladies 😔
@Bundaberg84 I've had months like that where I've been genuinely shocked to see my period because I'd convinced myself. Still you're not out until AF lands I guess.

Still no word from the IVF people here. I guess it's going to be a case of chasing these fuckers for the next few months. Great 🙃

Group hug @Franklydear @BellatrixK @Bundaberg84

As @Somatronic says it’s not over too AF. But for me, it’s the hope that going to kill ya. Not having hope protected me a bit this month.

So downtime during my period and then time to get DP booked in for his SA. @lakejupiter let’s hold each other accountable for that one!

I was thinking about a clomid prescription because my cycles AC around 50 days but we’ve really tried very hard every cycle and it’s not working so I wonder if there is any point doing clomid or whether we just need to skip to the big guns. Still need to wait for the SA before I get ahead of myself.

@pennysays same. I wish I would get a negative as soon as the egg didn't fertilise or implant or whatever so I know what I'm dealing with. It's less the not being pregnant as the waiting time, shimmers of hope and so on.

I will talk to my ob-gyn to see if I can get a Hycopsy, as I want to know if my remaining tube works as its supposed to or not. If not, there's no need to TTC any longer.

Thanks ladies. AF (well spotting really) has arrived. At least we’ve got each other to look after us!

Definitely sounds good: you ladies have plans! My plan is to drink and enjoy Valentine’s!

Sorry to hear about all the incoming AF, it's shit

I'm supposedly 4dpo but temp dropped today and now FF says I didn't ovulate so I guess that's my first ever annovulatory cycle 😩 I had a blazing positive OPK and ovulation pain but temp says not. I'm sick of it all TBH, I'm trying to reconcile myself to not having another child but I'm just not there. If only we had buckets of cash but 1 IVF cycle would be our limit financially and can I justify it rather than spending money on the child we do have? I'm at work but just want to cry 😭

Oh @polkadotpixie I get it, it's exactly where I was before and I get it. I was spending a lot of headspace coming to terms with only having one and why that was a good thing - happy to chat more on PM or whatever if you want (don't want to derail this thread) x

@polkadotpixie deep breath!! You will ovulate again soon. I don’t know your back story I’m sorry. Are engaged with fertility clinics etc?

So sorry to hear this @polkadotpixie lots of love to you.

I'm concerned I'm also having an anovulatory cycle? I had a static smiley on clearblue but never got a blazing positive OPK just sort of medium rare ones. I did have ovulation pain and EWCM but my temp has stayed almost the same this month (it was hovering around 36.2 degrees and for the last three days has been between 36.3 and 36.4). FF has given me the Red Cross but I'm barely above the cover line and last month my temp was around 36.7 for most of my luteal phase and then went down to 36.4 when AF was due. It's only my second month temping though.

@lakejupiter a temp leap is a temp leap. Mine vary each cycle as to how high it leaps. But my anovulatory cycle is clear as there is no rise or just a one / two day rise before dropping.

Just properly catching up on this thread - so sorry about all the AFs and hoping there’s some good self care/commiseration activities this weekend :(

Thanks for the reassurance @pennysays - I guess if it drops below the cover line over next couple of days I will know. Attached my chart in case of interest lol

@larrythelizard and @polkadotpixie not derailing, I am on the same boat, plus my time is really truly running out, I am happy that I have a fantastic child, but he so badly wants a sibling...😥
New cycle ladies, well get drunk on the weekend and think about it again in a week or so, @pennysays I had no hope too, with being ill, we dtd all the wrong times so🤷

Spain drop double vaccinated requirements for under 18s, I can go home whenever now! I got tickets for April but after that was limbo again, so 🍾 woohoo

@Franklydear excellent news! 🥳

@Juno231 is the FF chart queen @lakejupiter, she may have useful input

Your boy is such a sweetheart @Franklydear I'm sure if he was old and mature enough to understand your turmoil he'd reassure you and tell you he was fine as he's got you and his dad ❤️

And YES to getting home @Franklydear finally!!!

@larrythelizard thank you, that makes me feel better, my plan is to tell him, when he is old enough, how hard we tried and how many losses we had, since we are on the subject, he’s started to self advocate in school, he’s calling out, and gathering supporters, to anyone who calls autistics, weirdos as a type of racism, in you insult me just because I am different than you, he’s gathering quite a gang now , be afraid bullies, be very afraid, I might talk to his head of year, see what they can do to support them.

@polkadotpixie and @Franklydear I feel the same. Luckily my DC does not give a fig about have a sibling, I think they’d be rather put out if I had a baby! But I worry - needlessly - about them being an only child (as my therapist once said, some of the sanest people are only children).

I also know it would ruin this life we have now, out of the baby stage, finally a bit more freedom, loving being at work and exciting things on the horizons. I think I had PND and the thought of doing it again is horrendous. And yet here we are, because I would like to at least try.
But I know how absolutely perfect our family is now.

@franklydear an amazing piece of news and thanks for sharing that vision of your son, it’s joyous.

@lakejupiter that chart looks good to me as long as it says up!

@Bundaberg84 yes investigations sound like a good plan. Call GP on Monday?

Checking with all these lovely folks - if you’re in the mood come and say hi. If not, we’ll be here when you need us.

@sunbird24
@Dollybird89
@dmb91
@Sausage1990
@MrsBiddy
@chiatta
@Hann91
@LoveQ
@JuniperAndTonic