Hi everyone,
I am desperately trying to research this topic and find out more about it but I’m finding it challenging. I’ve recently had a missed miscarriage and I’m wondering if it could have been due to low progesterone as my luteal phase can be on the short side since breastfeeding. I took vitamin b6 that cycle and I happened to conceive…. Could be a coincidence, we’ll never know. We’ll never know the reason for my miscarriage- I know most people will say there’s so evidence to suggest breastfeeding was a factor - I’m just not sure.
Anyway, I have recently been reading a very thorough article by Carol Smyth IBCLC and it’s incredibly interesting and filled with info about TTC while breastfeeding and most of it makes so much sense to me. It has spurred me on to decide I will take progesterone if I get pregnant again while breastfeeding and I hope this will help the pregnancy to stick.
however, in the article, she talks about how women who breastfeed can have a long follicular phase due to low estrogen and as a result it takes longer for their eggs to mature and be released. She says it is possible that when the egg is released, it may be slightly less mature and she called this “sub mature” and this would usually mean it wouldn’t fertilize and implant because you wouldn’t have enough progesterone. She then mentioned about how you can have progesterone prescribed and this may help to maintain the pregnancy.
However, I have a question that I can’t seem to find the answer on (sorry I know this thread is so long now but this is the main question I have now!)… if hypothetically a sub mature egg was released and managed to fertilize and implant and then because you took progesterone pessaries the pregnancy stuck…. Is there a chance there would be adverse effects on the baby in the long run because the egg was originally slightly less mature (sub mature) at conception…. I am wondering if this could mean that maybe the baby could have developmental disabilities etc?
or is it a case that this is BS and actually if an egg manages to fertilize implant and go on to become an embryo foetus and then baby etc that the egg had to have been fully mature in the first place ?!