TTC and still breastfeeding? You're not alone! Thread# 2

So much for staying away from mn for a few days.
ava I am so sorry! I know how it feels!
spek yes. Dh and I decides it was worth the money for the first two months so that we could maximize chances as we are running out of time. So I poas everyday from about 8dpo at around 2pm and then once I started getting a line showing (indicating slight increase in levels) I started poas twice a day (11am-12pm and 7-8pm) to make sure I didn't miss the surge until I had a positive. Then carried on once a day for about three days after just be make sure it tallied with the surge. Regardless of my short lp messing it all up, I still feel it is well invested as ovulation appears erratic at the moment and my ewcm appears at non-ov times too. If your budget can stretch to it for a month or two, try it. I used ic as well, do it isn't as dear as the fancy branded ones.

I'm not the best person to ask as I'm not using them atm, but I used cheapy ones in the past & had to poas every day for those.

I did try ovulation indicator sticks but I don't think I understand how they work. They are only positive on the day of ovulation, aren't they? So I'd have to try every single day?

Spek if your periods are irregular it may be worth giving ov sticks a whirl so you can see when you ovulate.

Oh no Ava, sorry the witch got you. Hope you've got some chocolate at home x

We'll, AF arrived... Gutted is not the word... The pain earlier must've been due to that, another way my body has changed since AF returned, I used to be so in tune...

So sorry to hear these terrible birth stories ladies. My birth experience was awful too - dd was back to back & I was v slow to dilate. Never known pain like it. I eventually had an epidural & she ended up having to be dragged out of me with forceps - 35 stitches & 5 days in hospital to recover! Ugh awful! I couldn't even change her nappy for the first couple of days as I couldn't move! Let's hope our next births are much better

Ladies, can I ask another question? Think I've started a period today after not having one in february. If we dtd every day once that finished for 1 to 2 months surely I must get pregnant?

Gosh girls so sorry you had these awful rxperiences. I was so lucky to have DC at home and birth pool with midwives. No pain relief but it was very quick by all accounts and dh and midwife and cat very supportive. I hope all your next DC will be born without this abandonment you all experienced before. I can only imagine how terrible it would have been!

Oh gosh, Mary, sounds awful

Pain has subsided, now I feel like I made a drama over possibly nothing

I have no sticks here - did I mention I have had a minor addiction to them so I cut myself off cold turkey?! I'm not sure if our local shop would sell them and my parents have just arrived so I can't discreetly ask dh to pop out and buy one further afield - think shops will be closing soon anyway and I've missed fmu now... ...x

ava when I was pregnant with dd I had awful cramping about 2 days after my bfp (so about 15dpo). It was quite scary as I'd had no symptoms whatsoever until then. There was absolutely no problems though.

My birth experience was awful too. Everything was progressing fine when the mw told me I was 10cm and ready to push. 2 hours later and the obstetrician declared me 7cm with a lip on my cervix, (which I later found out could have been caused by pushing while not dilated) The rest is a horrible partially blocked out nightmare of drips, monitors, failed epidurals and a theatre delivery resulting in dd spending her first 12 hours in scbu. Where they ff her

I will not let any of that happen again.

Oh my god, Pear - my labour experience sounds a lot like yours! My water broke on the Friday evening, hospital advised I go it just to get checked over, at hospital my BP was high (as I hate hospitals, hence being kept in for almost a week!) so they kept me in and as my contractions weren't showing up in their stupid monitor they didn't believe I was in labour! I was kept on a pre- labour ward and so as not to scare the other ladies I quietly suffered from 6am - 4pm on the Saturday. I felt so isolated and alone. I kept buzzing for the midwife/pain relief but no one believed me until I threw up on one of the senior midwives and said I needed to push and DD arrived at 4.26pm after less than 30 mins pushing in the actual delivery room and no pain relief. They'd sent DH home earlier in the day and he only managed to witness the birth by a hair's breadth! I'm going to be much more vocal and less polite next time x

Mine was nothing like obem & I agree with you its so fake & v edited. However I love seeing the babies being born (soppy or what!)

Ava poas!!

Sorry Mary, I didn't see your earlier question - I am tempted to poas but think I'll wait to Tuesdays be safe. We, like you, only dtd twice - we had neither the time nor the energy this month... [Hmm]

Hi, are any of you lovely ladies around to offer some advice please?! I've just had to drag myself away from my mountain of ironing as I got a stabbing pain in my side, under my hipbone (?!) which took my breath away has anyone else had this while waiting for AF? I usually just get cramps and achiness across the breadth of my abdomen, but this is more localised pain. TMI I was drinking a carbonated drink so could it be trapped wind, although I'm not feeling windy? would it be too late for impantation? I'm gonna feel like a right wally if it's just wind.... x

Yes mumo I've read that the uterus contracts and sucks up more sperm!