TTC while breastfeeding - Part 2

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This is the place to come to share the frustrations of ttc while still nursing.

Many of us are sleep-deprived, some of us don't even know if we're ovulating and none of us know whether taking agnus castus is a good idea or not. We all just want to do the best by the children we already have, but would really like to be pregnant again. Quickly.

Part 1 had plenty of graduates . Here's hoping Part 2 will be equally successful and supportive!

Legally I'm glad someone is encouraged by the frequency of my almost-2-year-old's feeding . Right now I'm finding to constant requests quite wearing!!

Any chance that you might actuallty be pg? The last 3 times I have conceived I have had a little brown/pink implantation spotting about 5-7 days after ovulation. It's only a tiny amount, just noticed on wiping. I didn't have it the first 2 times round. I know some people do get ov spotting too, so you could be right and it might be that.

So glad you have a supportive Mum. Sometimes having one 'champion' makes all the difference. These days I just do what I like and ignore anyone else .

Ah, but Grumpy, look on the bright side.... you can still eat heaps of cream and cake and not worry about it becasue you're breastfeeding, no? Bf = better than any diet, ever

And yes, my mother totally encouraged me with bf and was the reason I got the hang of it (she showed me how to latch DD etc). Midwives were totally CRAP.

V unlikely that I am pg... very little action (partly becasue DD is still in our room at 11 months... another thing I don't mention in RL!) and any action that was had was with contraception.... but you never know

Planning on TTC properly from Jan, so will have to find ways to get more action!

legallyblonde, implantation sign!!!!! maybe you're up the duff?!?! I thought AF was coming for me, dark bron, old-blood-y type spotting at CD 26 so similar ish. It was implantation for me

My youngest is still in our room -hoping to move her out before Christmas gradually. We just use the sofa .

CD 9/10 here, but ov not expected before mid-late next week at the earliest

I have a few days away from the toddler in the next couple of weeks so I'm hoping that will give my fertility a much needed boost and sort out my luteal phase .

errr, duh, sorry, posted before seeing this whole last page of posts about the contraception and all legally, still a chance though?!

I never used any contraception post-birth, and still took ages for my fertility to come back. I'm really wanting to stop bf now though, as the monkey keeps biting me. I just can't enjoy feeding her as she bites as she latches off, and never feeds for an amount of time i can predict. It's frequent though. And I always tell her no! and look cross. Not helping. I can't really see another option- it's been going on for weeks and I've been more and more miserable about feeding her. Dropped her bedtime feed 3 days ago, and it's such a relief. I'm sad to be saying that, my mum fed me til 15 months and I never thought I'd wean DD at 12... I do tolerate the morning biting still... ouch!

Hi ladies, I know I came late to the thread and didn't post much but wanted to report my bfp here. Eeek, I am shitting myself despite ttc for the last 7 months.

Congratulations blackteaplease, make yours a decaf!!!! You'll only shit yourself breifly, then you'll be delighted!!!!! Well done you!!!!

(and isn't it great to not have to worry about having to do anythign about the bf?) Says me, the mean one who has night weaned and evening weaned and is stingily only giving one morning feed to poor DD -for her naughty biting habits--

It is a relief not having to worry about cutting out more feeds, I'm also looking forward to not having to remember to take my temperature as soon as I wake up!

Congratulations blacktea!

Congratulations, great news blacktea

Who else is still ttc then? It's cd16/17 here and managed a little SWI yesterday .

congrats blacktea :)

Congratulations blacktea!!!

Grumpy - not actively TTC until Jan, just marking my spot, mointoring cycles and generally using others to convince me that TTC is possible while still bf like billio! (And being generally heartened that I am not the only madwoman person in the world to be bf a one year old pretty much on demend - every 2 hours or so overnight when I'm not at work - and having her sleep in our room still etc etc all the while planning another one . Actually, reading that back, I must be mad!)

Just me then?

Congrats on the latest BFP. And congrats for the second time to dreamfeeder ;)

i would love to be TTC but DS now 11 months, still on 3 feeds a day, none at night, yet still no sign of Af's returning. Considering trying to drop the lunchtime feed to see if it makes any difference, also considering stopping BF'ing completely at 12 months, as much as we enjoy it, i am starting to think that's what it might take for them to return.

How do you go about dropping a daytime feed? DS has always been a bad daytime sleeper, so i feed him to sleep for his morning and his afternoon naps, and then again at bedtime (although if he is awake when he goes in his cot at night, invariably he will settle). It is rare he will settle in the daytime - although if he wakes in the middle of his naps, as of last week he has sometimes managed to get himself back to sleep!

So any tips on how to drop a feed and still have him go to sleep for his naps as i cannot cope with him if he doesn't have these sleeps - he really needs them! He will be going to nursery for a couple of afternoons a week, so it would be good to drop his 1.45pm feed, i could still do the morning and evening ones, and if AF's don't return then i could maybe drop either both or one of the others?

Hello there!

I'm new here, going to have read back but this is a looooong thread!
We're TTC #2. DD1 is nearly 16months and feeds about 3 times a day. I want to do some reading up because I'm sure that the BF is affecting my cycle. I had my mirena out in June and seem to be having 21 day cycles since. And they are weird bleeds. AF came today so feeling a bit despondant really.

Time to get reading!

looopy, I turned to walking again when I stopped for the daytime naps, though i did try to put her down and gradually it happened and now at 13 months she goes down with no problem for a nap. DD didn't make a fuss about dropping her bed time feed last week or two either, so maybe I'm just lucky? She never used to fall asleep feeding at night anymore though before I stopped- we do a story afterwards and I started the same for nap time and she gradually got it.

So I found out yesterday I'm pregnant with twins!!!!! Both bang on dates (12 weeks). That'll be 3 under 19 months then , or maybe 18, depending when the twins arrive...

WOOOW!!!!! Huge congrats (times two!)!!!!

x x x

Oh wow, what fantastic news dreamfeeder . Fab!

Still lurking and ttc here - like hearing about bfps as all hope is not lost!

Twins! Brilliant! Many congratulations!

Yeah, so the rumour is twins is more common in Bf mothers??? who else had heard that (before a 12 weeks scan which showed twins?!)???

I am SO excited and more delighted every day the news has longer to sink in, but also worried in case anything goes wrong with either baby.

Cut DD down to one feed a day as I'm knackered, and really don't want to end up feeding 3 so hoping for her to have forgotten all about bf herself by the time they both arrive hopefully both healthy

so good luck all TTC-ers!!

dreamfeederi hadn't heard that, but having just googled, it would appear to be true, 1 in 89 births are twins, but you are 9 times more likely to have twins if conceive whilst breastfeeding...so 10.11% chance of twins if breastfeeding!!! and if what i've just read is true, 40% more likely if taking folic acid, and also more likely if BMI over 30, if aged 35+, and if eat dairy....

so that's 5 ticks for me so i reckon i am due some twins myself if only i can start to ovulate!!!

the only things that increase your chances that i don't tick the boxes for is being tall, eating yams and having twins in the family or having had twins myself already!

oh and it also mentions clomid, but not sure who gets to take that/why, presume you can't just ask for it if you want twins lol.

oh and please try not to worry about your twins, i know lots of people with perfectly healthy twins, and there was a woman who had twins who was on my CS ward in hospital. She had to have a CS due to their positions, and it was done at 35 weeks, both good weights, and they were let out after 2 days, whereas we were stuck in for 5 days!!!

Just try to take things as easy as you can, and nag DH for a cleaner, so you can concentrate on you, your bumps and your DD!

Noooooooooooooooooo! It's lovely that other people have twins, but I REALLY only want one more baby. 10% chance of twins Thank heavens I don't eat yam and am under 35 .

I've got to get pregnant first of course.

you have got me a tiny bit nervous for Friday dream. i don't think there's much chance of twins for me though...