TTC while breastfeeding

It’s all been quiet for a while, how did s everyone doing. My Af arrived right in schedule 🙁.

Hi all, interestingly I have been night weaning DD1 over the past 3 weeks and this cycle I haven’t had the spotting around my expected ovulation like I’ve been having the last 3 months.

I have had some ewcm and fertility friend has me down at ovulating today. We DTD Tuesday and last night. May try again tonight.

Hopefully that’s a good sign.

Thank you @BoBo90! It really was quick, I genuinely wasn't expecting it at all!

That was nice and quick @Changedmyname 😁 Congratulations!!! 🎊🎊🎊🎊

Good luck @crazychemist hopefully your lg will allow you to go back to your own room soon 😊

Thank you for the welcome ladies.
I had a rather unexpected positive test yesterday evening, I really can't believe it.

Hi all,
I posted here a couple of times before, but have been staying off mumsnet to avoid baby obsession
DD is now 20 months old, miraculously and unexpectedly voluntarily nightweaned unless she is feeling unwell! Really wasn't expecting that as she can be a total breast-pest. We moved house in March and I've been sleeping in her room ever since, which is starting to seem ridiculous - I'm terrified if I change anything she'll go back to broken nights! Does rather scupper ttc plans, but I've only had two cycles since she was born, so might well not work yet anyway.
Congrats to wolfgrrl!

Wow wolfgrl that’s amazing news, congratulations

Congratulations @Wolfgrrl!

Sorry af arrives @MrsNai 😞

Damn that's a good strong line @Wolfgrrl!!! Congratulations! 🎊🎊🎊

I'm still waiting for af to return. Just as I think we can drop the night feed little man starts going through a growth spurt and is feeding more 😩 On the plus side he needs bigger clothes now so I get to have a little retail therapy to cheer myself up 😜

Good luck @Changedmaname! I hope your ttc is nice and short and you get a bfp soon 😊

Congratulations Wolfgrrl!

Can I join the thread please? My PFB will be two soon and still BF multiple times a day and (often) night too. My period returned at 6 months and is mildly irregular, just like before. Not long started TTC - second month trying this month and I am on CD28. Bit nervous about what breastfeeding might mean to how long it takes. Also nervous about falling pregnant and still breastfeeding, but didn't want to wait any longer to try for various reasons.

I tested this morning with a FRER at 12dpo (before having DD I used to only have an 8 day luteal phase) and got this!

Damn and blast. Aunt Flo arrived yesterday which is doubly annoying as it means more anxious waits and pee tests as well as missing baby swimming as I couldn't get someone to cover that for me.

Humph

Wolfgrl af was in progress from Monday until today (still spotting now). Yeah at least I know when it’s due.

Anyway, sounds like there are a few of us in the game this month so keep us updated!

mrs I also have a pot in the bathroom for my pee sticks haha! Not sure my DH realises it thankfully. Also love how clueless your DH is about how long you were trying for last time - they forget easily don't they!

We dtd a grand total of once this cycle and I think I might have ovulated now. Last time I got a positive OPK my period/spotting arrived 5 days later so my aim is for longer than that this time around! I didn't ovulate (if In fact I have) until CD 26 so don't know what that indicates.

doom are you waiting on your period any day now then? I'm jealous that you have predictable cycles! That's good considering how far pp you are I think!

By summer I meant sunny!

Sorry for the slow replies - it's harder to keep up with mumsnet when you have a baby isn't it!

summer I've had a very, very light bleed - wouldn't really call it a period but hoping that the next time is more normal. Still waiting on it though. I'd say that was a positive OPK. I never got very strong positives but obviously still managed to conceive so was ovulating. What has happened since you got that? Did you manage to dtd?

hopsalong that’s very interesting about the palpitations and progesterone. I’d say it certainly sounds plausible that this is what’s happening with me.

Hopefully I won’t have to wait till I wean DD to conceive DC2, but if I do, so be it. She’s 7 months now and I plan to wean at 1 year so I can live with that. As long as it doesn’t take 2 years again I’ll be fine.

We are currently trying to night wean DD on the advice of the health visitor as she has been waking 2-3 times per night lately and the lack of sleep has been killing me. She never really came out of the 4 month sleep regression and seems to be nursing for comfort rather than food.

I’ve been limiting night feeds to 10 minutes per feed since Thursday, next Thursday I will reduce to 5 minutes with a plan to fully night wean in 2-3 weeks time. As she doesn’t take a bottle, I haven’t had more than an hour or 2 away from her since birth, so I’m looking forward to a night or day out with DP if we can manage it.

On another note my periods are very consistently 33 day cycles, so at least I can predict them.

Wolfgrrl so far am hoping that we might be fortunate and trying to resist the urge to pee in a pot (have got a glass in the bathroom cupboard just for peeing in for tests, please could someone reassure me that I am not the only one) as it will be ten days or so before anything could show on a test.

Checked a fertility calculator and even shaved my legs so we managed to DTD on some fertile days.

Have also resisted the urge to scream at DH when he suggested we just see what happens as we didn't need to check fertility calenders last time. Slight rose tinted glasses on his part as we did use an ovulation calculator and it took months to conceive.

Hi everyone! Is there anyone else here who hasn't had a period yet since giving birth? I'm 10 months PP and no AF yet.

I've been getting a lot of ovulation symptoms and have been doing OPKs, but haven't had a positive. I tested again on Saturday and got this. Would you say this is a positive ovulation test?

I had a couple of days of palpitations last week and was a bit worried about it then it stopped. Now I think about it, it's around the time I ovulated. Interesting to hear it could be linked to progesterone!

On the palpitations and breathlessness, I have been having some similar symptoms. (Currently feeding DC2 who is 11 months old 2-3 times a day and have been having periods since December, but the first few light and very long cycles, with weird spotting around when I thought ovulation would be.)

From doing some research I think the palpitations and (in my case) noticeable increase in heart rate is linked to progesterone. I notice it after ovulation. Before DC2 I never had any of these issues, but had hyperemesis and a lot of palpitations in my second pregnancy and think it sort of sensitised me. At any rate, just to say that there’s quite good evidence that progesterone can cause these symptoms so try not to worry that it’s some underlying thing.

For what it’s worth I was having apparently regular cycles when TTC DC2 and still breastfeeding DC1. But it was only the month that I completely stopped that I noticed proper egg white mucus etc and that was the month we conceived DC2.

wolfgrrl no idea, af is due next Thursday, but think I’m probably having anovulatory cycles.

Been at the drs for palpitations and breathlessness and mention it there and she said my periods are probably not fully back so it’s likely due to hormone imbalance due to bf .

She’s sent me for a smear today to rule out anything else.

Woffgrrl I was hoping the same about cycles being regular once they start again! You'd think Mother Nature would want us to make more babies not be a bitch about it make it difficult! 😩

How often were/are you breastfeeding? Did you have to cut down a lot for af to return? Xx