TTC whilst breastfeeding - cycle 4

@BabyBorn sorry I’ve only just seen your question about whether I did anything differently apart from the vitamins - no I haven’t! On month 2 of the vitamins now and am about 2DPO so we’ll see if the differences stay/multiply. Really hoping this works as I feel like if not my only option is to wean and although we’re heading towards that I’d rather not feel the pressure to.

congratulations @Samsi17! Hope all goes well and a few more of us join you shortly.

Good luck everyone else, wishing you all well this month.

Good luck! I think just with my age I thought i should start sooner rather than later but I was really hoping I'd fall pregnant while still feeding her tbh as i do miss it a lot, though do still co sleep with her!

Yes, i still can't believe it, feels a bit too good to be true and I'm 39 also so just hoping all goes well 🙏
No I've not thankfully. I've pretty much had 28 day cycles but just think I was ovulating too late and do wonder if breastfeeding wasn't helping with implantation.
I actually can't believe she weaned, she was just showing signs of reducing so I took her lead, I've found it quite emotional though!!

Thank you! Juat hoping it sticks now 🤞
No, my period returned last May and I've been trying since July/August. I was ovulating but just very late in my cycle.
It's been 3 weeks now since I stopped and I ovulated cd14, whether or not it made a difference it's hard to tell but it seems very coincidental as I was cd18 or cd19 before. Good luck! I did just wait until AF was due as found it made me so down to test early and get a negative...

Omg I cannot believe it. Got a BFP this morning!! I only stopped breastfeeding over 2 weeks ago....

Yes that's true thanks, I was the same when I was pregnant also. If I don't have AF tomorrow morning I'll test then.
Hopefully your peak is soon!

Fingers crossed they're pregnancy symptoms!
I found with DD that it just felt my period was due any second for ages! So definitely can go either way symtpom wise.

Finally had a higher LH reading this morning, only 0.4 but I'm finally back to where I started 8 days ago 🫠

Thank you!
Yes, I'm cd27 now... due AF on Saturday. Feeling very irritable and had a couple of symptoms that could be pregnancy but of course could also be PMS, so apprehensive for the next couple of days... 😫

Welcome @Samsi17 😄 how are you feeling? You must be close to the end of your regular cycle now.

How is everyone doing? There must be a few LH peaks due soon. Mine however has decided to keeping dropping lower since I started testing on CD8, day 15 today and it was almost a squinter. Not looking good for a shorter cycle this month.

I am having a mineral analysis done just to make sure everything is at the level it should be. Hopefully thay will shed some light on irregularity.

Joining this thread if I can! My LO is 14.5 months, my period returned when she was 5 months even though I was EBF. Been ttc since then really and found I wasn't ovulating until day 18 or 19 so having short luteal phase. Just the last couple of weeks she seems to have been reducing feeds so I've decided to go with her cues and try to wean. Very sad about this as love that time for us, but as others have said I've heard it can affect implantation. I'm also 39, so time feels like it's ticking and I wanted them close together... interestingly I got a static smiley clearblue test on day 14, tested twice that day and got it around 6pm, could be coincidence... I'm on cd 20 now, tend to have 28 day cycles... I guess I'd be shocked if I happened so quickly but hopeful that it does as I'd like to go back to breastfeeding her. I did actually feed her for a short time after a week of stopping as boobs felt so full and sore a d it drained it all away immediately. Good luck to you all.

Oh god, yep when travelling breastfeeding is definitely easier!

Mine is postponed. Everything is so expensive, childcare is insane. We are finding it harder to juggle two (mine are just three and just one) and give them as much time as we want to. Work weren’t too happy with me taking leave, nor my partner taking it. We are not sure about a third. To be honest my partner wasn’t overly keen on more than two anyway. I would love another, but not sure if we could cope/manage. So we are just waiting, and will have to make a decision in the coming months

@ThatNimbleOPfor me, my periods had come back and been a regular 30 days since my first was about 4/5 months old so I thought it would be okay. However EWCM was at different days, ovulation seemed delayed (especially if he was ill and feeding way more) and after I stopped breastfeeding my period was heavier. I think I’m one of the people sensitive to prolactin and other hormonal changes. And yes the side effects of these are more difficulty with ovulation and lining, and fertility being optimal really.

More historic but I got pregnant twice whilst still bf. Both times little one was about 18 months and bf dropping down just feeding to sleep/ comfort feeds if unwell.

For me, I definitely needed to stop breastfeeding to conceive. I conceived first time with my first pregnancy (which was a MMC) and the month after I stopped breastfeeding. I’d had my period back regularly for ages with nothing happening whilst breastfeeding. But it’s so individual, and some people will conceive fine with suppressed fertility. Some are more affected by the hormones - two friends had to stop completely to even get their cycles back properly.
Really hoping the accupuncture works for those doing it!

Hi @G0ldfinch that’s interesting that AF seemed healthier last cycle! Have you done anything different apart from the vitamins? I started acupuncture and noticed that changed my AF a bit x

Hi @BabyBorn yes LP is probably borderline so hopefully a few vitamins will push it in the right direction! AF this month seemed much healthier if that isn’t TMI, so perhaps something is falling into place. We’ll see! Hope it all goes ok for you this month

Hi @G0ldfinch10 is ok, any lower is suggested it isn’t but everyone is different and I’ve heard of a few women falling pregnant with only a 9 day LP. Glad you havre managed to figure out when you ovulate. With the B6 it might lengthen it too! I take Vitamin C and E too. Hoping it all works at some point soon! 😀

Hi @BabyBorn, think LP was 9 days last month and 10 this month. I think it may always have been like that to be honest, but not sure as I’ve only ever tested for ovulation in the last two months. I think more of the issue is probably ovulating later, I looked back over the last 5 months and in three of them DH and I weren’t hitting the ovulation period at all!! So perhaps now I know we’ll have much luck. Am taking B6, C and E (took this before my last pregnancy to thicken uterus lining and conceived first try so maybe it helped!).