TTC while Breastfeeding (or recently weaned!!) regular cycles and baby dust this way!

It sounds promising that there is SOMETHING, but worried about whether the tests not really being clear a few days after I was expecting AF and not getting stronger means it won't work out.

I am still feeding as much as my 22 mo DS asks for (mostly he just wants to cuddle though rather than feed nowadays, so feeding is just a couple of sucks, expect at night when he might feed for a minute or so).

Sounds really promising Abrahamkin! Good luck really hope your tests keep getting stronger positives! Are you still feeding? I'm really trying to cut down but finding it hard, my 17 month old is still v attached to BF, she signs for milk a lot. Sometimes she's happy enough with a snack or drink or I can distract her with a book but other times she just gets upset and then I always give in and feed her. I don't want her to be sad!

Happy New Year to everyone on the thread. This is to BFP for everyone in 2017! How are you all doing?

I'm in a bit of limbo at the moment. Have taken a number of pregnancy tests. First three were showing a very faint line after the 5 minute deadline was up (say around 7-10 minute). Then I bought another type of test and again very faint line on day and even fainter the next day (but within the 5 minutes). So I guess I just have to wait and see what is happening. Cannot talk to anyone about it (except DH, who is tired of hearing about it )!

Just popping in to say hi to you ladies and wish you all the best for a BFP soon.

Congratulations on your BFP writer that's fab news

Still BFing here (17 weeks) but quite keen to stop now as it's bloody sore!

Hi just wanted to ask, JaneEyreWasaSellout, how are you getting on? I followed your lead and went on the pill to try and kickstart my period, planning to take it for a couple of months and then come off it and hope for the best! Just wondered did it work for you in bringing back your period/ovulation etc? Hope you're doing well!

I'm guessing stopping the breast feeding was the answer for me. I'm glad it's led to a BFP though because when I stopped BF'ing DS I felt really guilty when he was asking for it and I kept saying no but at least now I feel it was all justified x

Ah congrats writerWannabe. There is not much to report here. Hence the radio silence. You give me hope though .

It's been a while since I posted on here as I was getting very despondent about having BFNs month after month but I'm happy to say I got a BFP this morning.

Lines are faint and it's early days but at least I know I can conceive

I think if you're getting regular cycles then chances are you're ovulating, whether or not you're breastfeeding.

Cycles are around 28 days long.

Not sure if this is still an active thread or have you started a new one?

If it's still active can I ask if you can get regular periods whilst breast feeding and not ovulate? In guessing that's what's Hong on with me as I was TTC for ages pre DS2 so know the changes in cervical mucus and I don't seem to be getting the creamy stuff that normally comes post OV.

DS2 is 10 months old and feeding twice in the night still. No plans to give up, I'm an older mum at 41 so my hormones will be weak. We would like to try again but I'm pretty convinced it's very unlikely.

Hello. Please can I join? I'm currently ttc#4, having just stopped BF my youngest about 4 weeks ago. I was convinced last week that I was pregnant (had all the symptoms 24/7) but they've now stopped and I've dug out my old thermometer and my temps yesterday and today are nowhere near pregnancy level. So it seems like it's just my body playing with me (it does this: after stopping BF #1 and #2 it took a good few months to regulate everything again). Randomly did an OPK this morning which looked almost positive so am hoping that it's the end of a surge rather than the start, since DH left this morning for a 5 day work trip...!

Am trying not to get too obsessed with it this time though. I've been incredibly fortunate in terms of getting pregnant (I have a complicated gynae history including ovarian cancer) and have fallen extremely quickly with all three, so am trying to count my blessings and let it happen when it will.

Not taking anything herbal wise, just pregnancy vits. Trying to cut down a bit on my exercise to see if that helps things sort themselves out quicker (am a healthy weight but quite muscular so might be good to lose a bit of that).

Good luck to all!

Sorry not writer, Jane eyre

Interesting writer, so how does that work? You take the pill for a short amount of time? Cycle 3 since coming off the pill here but last period was heavier than I ever remember them being pre- baby. Hopefully that's a good sign! Night weaning is pretty much complete; so much that ds is having his first sleepover at granny's next week and we're having our first child free night in 2 years! Fingers crossed it coincides perfectly with ov!

Good luck Writer, I hope stopping works for you.

After a couple of higher temps in the last few days, today's temperature (CD17) was pretty low so I don't know if this cycle will turn out to be anovulatory, or whether I'll end up ovulating a bit later than last month. . I suppose at least if it's the latter we'll be in with more of a chance this month...

Two weeks ago I decided to stop breast feeding DS as since TTC I miscarried on cycle 1 and then all subsequent cycles (6 or 7) have been BFNs each month. I wasn't feeding him very often (2-3 times in 24 hours) but it was always in my mind that it was the BF'ing that was stopping me from falling pregnant so I decided to stop.

My period is due tomorrow and then my first cycle post-BF will begin so it will be interesting to see what happens from here....

Well, despite me thinking my cycle was playing ball, it turned out to be only 26 days long - my shortest ever! Pre-DD I even had one of about 145 days, and even when things settled down it was 30 or 31 days, so it was a bit of a shock to have AF to arrive when she did! No idea what's happening this cycle - I've been a bit crap at temping, and I think I may have missed a +OPK, as it was heading that way a couple of days ago and now has completely disappeared. If I get my act together with the thermometer over the next few days hopefully I'll be able to see if I have actually ovulated or not....I Don't hold out a huge amount of hope for this cycle, as we've only DTD once or twice in my fertile window...

Ha! Not much to update from here. AF arrived yesterday after a 34 day cycle (longest cycle since the birth). Pah! So another round it is.

This group is dead-quiet, innit?
Fwiw thought I'd share my news as it was unorthodox but seems to have worked. Copied and pasted from another thread I wrote this on:
"I've just managed to manipulate my AF back through "improper" use of contraception (which I'm obviously not advising although I explained what I hoped to achieve to my gp) but have no idea yet if I will have a useful LP or indeed if I will ovulate. If things look dodgy this time around I will go the induced ovulation and bullets route sooner regardless of cost. "
So in short I have had a period or at least a bleed of some kind after starting and then stopping oral contraception. Didn't change my bfing at all. Will be trying opks to see if my body is attemptingATTACHED ovulate and see if I get another AF, what my LP is like etc.
But for those struggling to get AF back while bfing, this might be worthwhile trying. I'm aware it could all be coincidence, but comparing to last time, it feels as if I had managed to intervene to some extent with this method.

Wish I had asked the Obgyn more about it last time!

curlie dc is ~7m. I'm old, hence the hurry. Last time I waited and waited and tried allthe tricks in the book to no avail. I stopped completely before I wanted to at I think around 18m, but still no luck even after my periods came back. Eventually went private for something similar to clomid which did the trick first time. But have now been hounded by what the Obgyn said and want to try it while continuing bfing.

How old is your DC Jane Eyre? I'm in the middle of my first PP cycle now and my DD is 13 months. I cut down feeding a little, by giving formula around lunchtime/early afternoon for a few weeks and that seems to have done the trick. I also show signs (OPK, temps) of having ovulated too, which I wasn't expecting first cycle, so you never know..

Hullo. I have a... uhm... question. Sorry if it is weird or has been asked before. No periods, still bfing. Last time periods only returned after I stopped and then I didn't ovulate for months after that. At the time an obstetrician asked why didn't I just take the pill for a bit to kick-start my ovulation. So thought I'd try it this time. Anyone done it? Did it work? Anyone able to offer suggestions on mini pill or normal pill for this? TIA!

Keep on testing daily then! Good luck

It's been 4 weeks since I had the implant out and I haven't had a period at all. So I don't really have any sort of cycle to go off!!