Bfing and ovulating at 14 months

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Hi

We are ttc'ing. Ds is 14 months old and has been having night feeds until recently but in the last week has started to just have morning and evening feeds (demanding some more in the daytime on the days I'm off work, uses it as a sleep aid more than anything..).

Anyway, I seemed to be having a more or less regular cycle from about 7 months as in, I had an AF once a month.. but it's become a bit erratic since November: 32 day, 28 day, 24 day and now this cycle (think I am on about day 17 now...).

What are the chances I'm not ov'ing? Is thre anything I can/should do to help?

Many thanks.

I would say pretty good...if you've been having periods for 7 months and no longer night feeding.

For what it's worth, my periods came back 2 weeks after I nightweaned at 10 months and I was PG the next cycle...whoops...there I was thinking it would take some time for ovulation to get going again I'd also heard bf'ing prevents implantation, but apparently not... and I'm 37 by the way, so no spring chicken!

Good luck ttc!

I mean chances are pretty good you're ovulating!

Everyone is different, so there are no hard and fast rules.

You may well be ovulating, but perhaps you luteal phase is shortened which means the lining of the uterus is not built up enough to sustain a pregnancy. Or you may not be ovulating and having anovulatory bleeding.

Have a look at Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler. Hopefully you can figure it out using the info in the book. I was ttc for 2.5yrs when bf ds1. I had regular-ish cycles but a shortened luteal phase and knowing this stopped me from worrying about taking so long to conceive.

Charting your cycles help, at least you know when your fertile and infertile days are so that you can then avoid or achieve a pregnancy without guessing.