TTC whilst breastfeeding. Tips, advice and support

How are you doing @A1b2c3d4e5f6g7 ?

Good luck to you @A1b2c3d4e5f6g7 and @Golaz I hope this is your cycle 🤞

That's so good to hear you luteal phase is lengthening @A1b2c3d4e5f6g7

Thanks @A1b2c3d4e5f6g7 good luck with your TWW and I'll get my OPKs ready for my next cycle

@Golaz good luck! Can maybe test in another couple of days !

good luck!!!
I’m on 6/7dpo . Fingers crossed for us both this cycle 🤞🏻🤞🏻☺️☺️

I'm post weaning now and 5dpo and period hasn't arrived. Think this has beaten my previous months already

@ZoomiesCat good luck! He just turned one a couple of weeks ago.

@TrudyProud I haven't conceived, but my period came back at 5/6 months also, and I have had heaps and heaps of ewcm. However that hasn't been an indicator of good fertility for me as my luteal phase has been very short

After watching the thread we are approaching the time to TTC DC2 (will start March /April). My periods returned at 6months so I presumed we were good to go however DD is approaching 10month and I'm realising I've not had any ewcm since my period returned,

I will buy and ovulation kit ahead of my next cycle but for the sake of my sanity...Those of you with BFPs- did you have visible ewcm?

DD is still a boob monster she has 3-4 daytime feeds and an overnight feed in addition to 3 solid (BLW) meals and water.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

@A1b2c3d4e5f6g7 thanks for the reply! She will drink a little oat/soy milk in a sippy cup or open cup, but unfortunately not reliably. We are thinking of getting DH to offer her this or water at night wake ups, but have decided first to work on getting her to sleep without breast milk, so will feed her and then try and put her down drowsy and lay with her. I'll work on that this week and then possibly the following week if all goes to plan do night weaning 🤞 Well done on weaning your little one! Sorry I can't remember from reading through the thread how old your little one is?

That's really good to hear about the earlier ovulation for you and hopefully your luteal phase will length out for you this month too 🤞

@ZoomiesCat hello! That sounds really rough, definitely empathising with the constant sickness from nursery plus teething. Hope being out of your bed means she takes less milk 🤞 Does she drink cows milk? Mine is having 600ml of cows milk a day (I just weaned him off me) but I know that's too much at one year old - he just really loves milk.

I think I have ovulated over a week earlier this month on CD20, and that was mostly cutting down, as it's only been the last few days of no milk at all. Hopefully my luteal phase improves this month too! Six days hasn't really been long enough for anything to implant 🤷‍♀️

Hi, I was wondering if I could join? I've spent the last few evenings reading through this thread and have found some useful tips. Congratulations to those that have had BFPs, that brings me so much hope. I'm so sorry to hear about those that have had loses, I hope you are doing okay and recovering.

My DD is 14months old. We haven't started TTC yet and we are hoping to start this summer but I've not had my period back yet since having DD. DD is such a boobie monster, but I've been trying to cut down feeds in the day so just milk for nap and bedtime but she's been a bit poorly having started nursery and picking up everything there 🤦‍♀️ and I suspect teething too, so that's been hit and miss on whenever that plan has worked each day. She started nursery in January and goes twice a week for 8hrs, where she doesn't have milk there at all, so I've stopped expressing on these days as she doesn't want/need it when I'm not with her, so I know she can do it in the daytime. Night time I am still feeding through the night, last night I timed it and it seems to be roughly every 3hrs, but 4am feed was just her latched on suckling for comfort for an hour. I have in the last week been trying to shh and pat to sleep instead with varying success. Up until recently we were cosleeping, but we've now set up her own bed area, so I'm hoping having a bit of space and her not right next to me might help her not smell the milk and what it so much. The night feeds have definitely spread out as it was hourly until we moved her. We are thinking of getting DH to try and go to her at night now instead of me, but doesn't wake up to her like I do so that's frustrating.

This month I've been religiously taking my multivitamins and myo-inositol, and seed cycling although have done it with the moon cycle as don't have a cycle back yet to base it on. I did this the month we conceived DD after experiencing a miscarriage, no idea if it was that that worked but I guess some extra nutrients from seeds each day can't hurt. I've also been trying to incorporate some yoga and meditation practices back onto my life and trying to up my calories a bit but find this super hard, especially as DH looks at me like why are you eating again!? Pre DD I used Natural Cycles for years for contraception and then when TTC and it worked well, I think not having cycles back is worrying me as last time I knew exactly when I was ovulating so feels like all new territory for me.

Sorry this was a long first intro, just trying to get it all straight in my head too. Clearly not an over thinker over here 🙋🤦‍♀️😂

@Ciaonow I'm really sorry it's always rubbish, but especially when you're late.

Our babies are about the same age, I've been weaning this last week. Down to one feed a day, and the rest cows milk and formula. Will try to drop the last feed in the next week or two. It's actually helped ours with night sleeping too - gone from co sleeping and every 90 min wake ups to two wake ups in the night (in his cot) and no milk til the morning

@A1b2c3d4e5f6g7 AF arrived this morning so I’m pretty disappointed but not that surprised really. DD is 1 this month so might start cutting back a bit soon if I can as she’s still feeding so much at night! I’m exhausted too. How are you getting on?

@Ciaonow how are you?

Hi ladies well I’m 3 days late but done a couple of cheap tests that were negative and just done a FRER test which I probably should have saved til morning but it was negative too 😔 not sure what’s happening I’m guessing I’m just late. DD has been feeding a lot again lately so maybe that’s messing up hormones etc

@Goldcloud67 that's great news! Must be a relief to have it back (not normally but for ttc purposes)

How is everyone?

I have cut right back on breastfeeding, just once or twice a day. Curious to see what effect it'll have on my cycle this month. Hopefully a good one

Hope everyone's doing well. Just an update that I had my GP appointment about my potential thyroid concerns and they were happy to give me a blood test. All came back normal and the day before i got my test results my period came, 11 months since having my baby. So great news and glad I didn't have to give up breastfeeding completely for it to come back. Now I actually feel like I'm getting somewhere 🙂

@TrudyProud @A1b2c3d4e5f6g7
I feel for you, renovating is so stressful. It's so worth it once it's finished though.

@A1b2c3d4e5f6g7 I'm trying to wean too, I need to be more consistent though. BF is so much more convenient.

@lemondrizzlecake20 we are in a similar situation. 9 month old DD, living with in laws whilst house is renovated. Willl hopefully all be done in the coming 6 weeks.

DH said just before bed that needs a break from house stuff once the reno is done but still wants to TTC which is good news! DD will be 11 months when the reno is done. We both go back FT in April 😬

@lemondrizzlecake20 mine is 11 months. Tbh it's not great timing, we are living between houses atm while ours is renovated, and both working full time, so a bit tired. But I'm 38 so we need to get on with it. I am trying to wean my baby a bit more, to give it a good chance of happening hopefully.

@Golaz sounds like a very positive cycle for you whatever happens! I just read back as well and that's so funny your baby whacks you on the head to get milk. Mine slaps at me and pulls my hair if he's in bed with us. Part of the reason he needs his own room 😅

Ah no sorry to hear your af arrived @A1b2c3d4e5f6g7 . I guess that means your luteal phase is getting longer though?

No af for me yet. My luteal phase before bf was typically 14 days, so this is shaping up to be my first normal cycle 🤞🏻

good luck @Countingchicks and welcome @lemondrizzlecake20

@A1b2c3d4e5f6g7 DC is 7 months old, hence the tentatively trying. It took over a year of TTC for DC1.

How old is your LO?

@Golaz period arrived today! Just a couple days late. Think that means I've an 8-9 day luteal phase. 12 days is awesome, you must be pleased with that? How're you feeling today?

@justwantobeamum it's so much more an anxious time after miscarriages. Hoping that this is okay for you this time and all is well

@lemondrizzlecake20 welcome. How old is your baby?

Hi all, i hope you don't mind me jumping on this thread.

I'm tentatively TTC, I still haven't had a period yet so just going with the flow at the moment x

Cycle day 18 today and got my lh peak yesterday so surprisingly my cycles have gone right back to what they were pre pregnancy straight away.