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

Well at least some sort of cycle is happening now piglet so that can only be good 😊. Have you tried taking your temperature in the mornings? It's a bit of a faff but ok once you get into the routine, but the only way to definitely know that you've ovulated.
So we've been awake since 4:30 with dd screaming in my face and trying to push me out of bed because she wants "milk milk!!". She won't take a cup of milk or water instead and just works herself into a frenzy when I offer the cup and say it's not morning yet.
During the day she's constantly pulling at my clothes and whining as well. She (obviously!) doesn't do it to anyone else and it doesn't help that my mum is staying this week who is generally disapproving of me still feeling her and co-sleeping , so although it's usually works great for us it most definitely isn't at the moment.
Think I'm going to have to wean her 😕 I really wanted to make it to her 2nd birthday, ( she's almost 22 months) but bfing is definitely not pleasant for me anymore and I can't help thinking that if it was taken out of the equation that dd would be a lot more generally settled.
Sorry for the outpouring that's not really anything to do with ttc!! Xx

Well, just got my period again (after poas having half convinced myself I might be pregnant), so that first cycle was 40 days. Hopefully the next will be a more normal length. Need to make an effort (!) on the actual ttc anyway as this month was a bit of a write-off for various reasons.

Wondering whether to get some OPKs to see if anything's actually happening, but should probably at least attempt to be relaxed about it for the time being...

Welcome piglet81 and best of luck to you! It seems that a few folks in here have said that they had quite long cycles to start with whilst still bfing, unfortunately (like most things to do with conceiving) everyone seems to be a bit different though! Xx

Hello, may I join your gang? I'm breastfeeding DS (25 months) and we'd like to ttc another. He feeds at bedtime and several times through the night (he's never slept much!), and before his nap on days I'm not at work.

My period came back literally the day after his second birthday, so I'm on cd34 today. It's been so long since my last period that I can't remember how long they usually were! I've read that the first few cycles are often a bit haywire, so it'll be interesting to see...

It's really heartening to read your success stories - congratulations to those of you with recent BFPs and good luck to everyone trying

Wow Eclectic that's brilliant! Haha can't believe that we've followed exactly the same pattern 😀
I feel absolutely fine at the moment, but seem to remember the first few weeks were ok last time, then the fatigue hit so I couldn't stay awake beyond 7pm and I felt sick if I was even slightly hungry - so have been scoffing the ginger biscuits already just in case 😜
Hope you don't feel too rough for long & best of luck xxx

Woohoo Bessy!! Delighted for you. Fingers crossed everything continues to go well.

So I think you are my lucky talisman as I have been feeling pretty ropey for the past week with nausea and fatigue, and took a test on Friday... Woohoo BFP! It was pretty faint but I've tested a couple of times since and it's been getting stronger, and is now a definite positive.
Perhaps we are actually the same person Bessy?!?

Thank you Curlie, hoping very much that you get your sticky one soon xxx

Congratulations Bessybot! x

Hi everyone we'll a little in shock but have got BFP! 😀 Got a squinter on Wednesday, a little clearer on Thursday then have been super busy and distracted as my best friend went into labour a month early so have been helping to look after her little one, but a clear positive this morning.
I am obviously thrilled but also don't think it's sunk in as took quite a while last time so I was totally ready for the long "journey" again- just fingers crossed everything goes ok and thanks to everyone on here- Eclectic I hope you continue your trend of following my progress! 😁 Xx

I'm going to make another appointment with someone else and ask them to do bloods. If it is breastfeeding that stopping me getting pregnant, that's fine, I can then make the decision on whether or not to wean. But without knowing for sure that's not a decision I want to make!

That sounds like a complete cop out dillydollydarling. She doesn't know it is or isn't because of breastfeeding any more than she knows it is or isn't because of PCOS, hypothyroidism or any number of things without doing the bloods. Very frustrating for you. My daughter is the same age, still feeds quite a bit, but my periods returned at 13 months...

I had a doctors appointment today to discuss options as I still haven't had a period 21 months after having my daughter and almost a year since having the implant removed. She said she wouldn't do any blood tests to check hormone levels as there is an obvious reason that I'm not ovulating as I'm still breastfeeding. Im so disappointed. I'm not willing to take away my daughters biggest source of comfort so weaning isn't an option.

Hey Eclectic yeah I am in the TWW, was expecting to start yesterday or today but nothing yet. Trying to not get my hopes up as have read on here that the first free cycles can be longer than usual. Not really got any symptoms - but then when I got pregnant with dd it was the first month in 9 months of ttc that I was sure I wasn't pregnant! 😜

How is everyone doing?
Hope you've had a good week curlie.
Are you in the 2ww Bessy? Any symptom spotting? Not much to report from here. I felt very different when pregnant with my first, and I feel pretty darn normal now, so not expecting much this cycle.

Thanks everyone. I think I just need to dust myself off and carry on, hope for a sticky one next month!

Managed to give the LO a feed of v milky weetabix through a bottle this morning instead of his usual BF. This is a major achievement as he has never really taken to the bottle or formula. Now he's only 3 weeks away from his first birthday I thought it was worth trying something quite familiar and after a lot of encouragement he suddenly wolfed it down. Wooop wooop! May go and get myself some new bras to celebrate!

Hope that doesn't sound flippant curlie xx

Curlie I'm sorry to hear that.
TTC is such a rollercoaster of emotions!

Take time to savour doing things that you can't whilst pregnant... Soft cheeses, pate, rare steak, alcohol... And before you know you'll have another BFP.

Oh curlie I'm so sorry to hear your news! Sending big hugs xxx

Oh curlie I am so sorry that is heartbreaking news, look after yourself and hug dd tight, you will get there in the end. Sending hugs & love xxx

Ah, looks like mine was a CP then. Negative test yesterday and af today. Gutted. We were just starting to get excited...

Haha I'll try - fingers crossed for all of us 😀 Xx

Eastend I stopped feeding at night about a week after Bessy, and it sounds as though my period started a week after hers (about 2 months after night weaning) so hopefully it won't be much longer for you.

Bessy it seems as though I'm one step behind you, so I'm counting on you getting your BFP!

Yey that's great eclectic 😀- it is a bit weird a) being so happy to see it and b) posting it up for all the world to see 😜
East end - I night weaned at the start of march so it took another 2 months for period to arrive, sure yours will arrive (probably when you least expect it!) xx

Yay eclectic! No sign here, night weaned a few weeks ago, only feeding morning and evening