Fertility and breastfeeding

[horsygirl]

LO is 15 weeks and I'm keen for another (I know, mental, but I'm not getting any younger)

I'm trying to go back to ebf but I havent had any periods yet.

Anyone got pregnant while ebf??

There are loads of people on here who have horsygirl.

However, I am not one of them and breastfeeding is still affecting my fertility even though ds is 2.7 and is obviously eating lots of food as well. I have periods and am ovulating, but I now ovulate much later in the month leaving too short a luteal phast (time between ovulation and my period) for implantation.

You just have to remember that everybody is different and you won't know where on the return to fertility spectrum you are until you ttc.

Good luck

phast? what is a phast?

LOL Luteal phase

I was still exclusively breastfeeding when I got pregnant again. My son was just shy of 6 months old (and now I'm due in approximately 7 weeks - eek!). I don't know if it made a difference, but he had stopped feeding at night when I conceived - he started sleeping from 11pm when I gave him his evening feed through to about 6 or 7am when I would give him his morning feed. I later heard that this large gap between feeds could have affected my return to fertility.

Good luck, horsygirl!

My periods returned whilst exclusively bf dd at 4 months and I was feeding every 2hrs day and night. However, my luteal phase like mawbroon's was very short for another 6 months and is still slightly shorter than what it used to be (dd is 12mo) but within the realms of a normal cycle. I think it depends on the person but my cycle's only gone back to normal-ish now that dd doesn't bf at night.

ah, I see, Starlight. That explains my getting pregnant again, then! I'll try to remember that this time round.

And I hadn't even had a period! It seems wierd to have gone so long (since July 2006 and still counting) with no period, but I'm not complaining!

I started ttc one year after having ds3 who was bf but obviously by then not exclusively. We had no luck for 18 months, I weaned him and was pg within 2 months. May have been coincidence but it certainly appeared to adversely affect my fertility.