Wow, 2 bfps, wonderful news bee and mrsc! Mrsc I meant to ask the other day how things were going after your super-long AF, maybe that was just your body's way of getting itself ready for the new little bean! What a brilliant surprise anyway.
I have been hiding away from anything ttc related for a few days feeling a bit sorry for myself after AF arrived last week, so sorry not to get in earlier with the congratulations. Just not really sure where to go from here as I feel like I'm running out of things I can do to up my chances, hopefully the GP next week will have some ideas. I have been using a fertility monitor this cycle (managed to get a free one!) and this morning it said high fertility, much to my surprise (it's one of those where you test every day from a certain day and it tracks the changes in your hormone levels and gives a reading of low, high or peak fertility). I'm only on cd8 and my shortest cycle since DS was 38 days so feel it's probably a mistake, but managed to fit in a quick baby-making attempt with DH this morning just in case! If my body is gearing up to ovulate next week that would be great, would love to have a more normal-length cycle for a change.
zoo it's me that is no longer bfing although my story might not be that useful to you. DS was ill (I think it was h,f&m) and feeding was hurting him so he would keep pulling off and screaming. After about 24 hours it just put him off and he refused to latch on again. For the first few days he would scream any time I offered, then gradually calmed down but then thought it was all a game (he would 'feed' his teddies and then laugh at me) at which point I knew he was done with breastfeeding for good, although I kept offering for a few weeks. If that hadn't happened I would have carried on til he lost interest I think. It was really hard at first, especially at night time as he had still been fed to sleep / for comfort early in the morning. He was ill as well so we had a couple of horrible days where he cried a lot (as did I - don't underestimate what stopping bf does to your hormones!) and nothing I could do would comfort him and then he just sort of got over it. I was still expressing for a couple of months after, with a manual pump that attached to a bottle so he had a bottle in the morning and evening, then just the evening. He now has a bottle of cows milk in the morning (screams and throws it across the room if I try a cup but we'll have to fight that battle soon!) and a cup before bed. Sometimes a cup in the afternoon if we're at home. My friend recently dropped the evening breastfeed though, she did the usual bedtime routine but left the room at the point she would usually bf and her DH offered a cup of milk instead, her DD was fine with it. Sorry that might be more information than you were looking for!
to June, amazing that you're still going strong at 37 months! I have heard good things about acupuncture (is on my list of possibles to try), hope it works for you!