TTC and still breastfeeding? You're not alone! Thread# 2

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Marking my place...hoping I won't be here for long

Mumo Af is due on 21st so I will try ha ha yeah right to wait until at least then.

Feel free to read the above as 'every other day from cd9 onwards!'

How about you?

So we will be testing on 21, 23 and 26th. Well that's exciting

Hah ha if you're testing on 23rd I am so blatantly going to cave and test on 24th at 12 DPO lol

Ava, there is nothing like a precious family moment go force you to count your blessings. It is so easy to forget too easy but it's important that we keep reminding ourselves of exactly what you've said in your last post

Haha! I am feeling excited/nervous about testing already & I don't think I've even passed ovulation yet lol! I'd forgotten but the 2ww is the worst!

Hi Mumo, I totally 'get' how you're feeling - think it was nervous/excited energy that had me awake til 3.30am last night. Although I am disappointed AF did show up, I'm trying to see the positive - she did actually show up when I expected her to... Maybe my cycles are starting to settle and I get my bfp soon? hopefully all you lovely ladies now in the 2 ww will have had your bps in the meantime I'll keep checking in and keeping fx for all of you x

That should read, I hope all you lovely ladies now in the 2 ww will have had your bfps in the meantime fx

Grrrrrr! My monitor still says high. 4th day of high. I shall continue my Dtd mission and try and push the feeling that something isn't right to the back of my mind

Morning all! How is everyone feeling today?

Ava hope you get your bfp v soon... Just think in 2 weeks you can try again

Pear that is odd! Do you have any cheapie ov sticks around? Might be worth double checking what another type of stick would say. Good luck with the dtd mission... Hope it pays off

Morning all!

Pear, I've been looking back at old notes as I used to get lots of high days before a peak. Month ds was conceived I had nine in a row, then my peak, so try not to worry just yet.

No peaks here yet. Pah. My hl surge appeared very fairly one day and has not been seen since. Hoping against all reason that I did ovulate and cbfm just missed it and that I am full of baby .

Gr. lh. Faintly. You know what I'm saying.

Thanks Giddy, a few months a go I read a few ladies say that they got a bunch of highs and never a peak but still got a BFP so I'll just take this as a pinch of salt but still...I like to see the proper results in the right order to believe Looks like you're still gearing up to OV. You hang in there too because I also got a faint second line at the start of my cycle (a few cycles back) and then got my first high much later on in the cycle.

Thanks mum! Could not be feeling less sexy if I tried this month

Morning ladies. Hope AF is treating you kindly Ava? Hopefully you won't see any more of her this year! I totally get the deadline thing. We always planned to have 4dcs; 2 close together, a gap then another 2. We had the first 2 (2yrs7m apart) then our gap somehow ended up over 7yrs! So dcs are 11yrs, 8yrs and 16mo. I really wanted a small gap this time as even as it is I'll be doing the primary school run for 18years! So I've kind of set myself a target: smaller gap than the first two or we stop trying ?? I'm already very blessed and there would be benefits of stopping at 3 (wouldn't lose our spare room sex bed, wouldn't need a bigger car, more time for the others etc...) but I would always regret not having another.
So basically while being a tad crazy and desperate to conceive I'm also considering an NCT nearly new sale to get rid of all most of my baby things. God this is hard. Sorry for the rant! I'm going to take a step back and lurk for a while (although will be congratulating the BFPs later this month!) unless anything changes here. Good Luck Everyone x

Hi all, I stopped using opks as I just got faint to strong 'half' lines (only once stronger than control line) and several days in a row of static smileys etc on the various ones I tried and the results of both types of test never correlated with each other and I never really knew if they were accurate, or when or if I ov'd so I gave up and tried to use cm but as I don't have much of that, or, like Pear I get some EWCM at odd times (ie. this month I got it a couple of of days after I guessed estimated I must have ovulated (using my app)) so that's not really much help either.... Anyway, as a last resort I bought some amazon cheapies yesterday and they should arrive by the time AF has packed her bags. fx I get more definitive, logical readings now....x

Well done with your dtd mission, Pear! Amazing effort really don't know how I'm going to uphold a promise I made in RL to do the same

Hi iSpy, this is definitely the heaviest AF I've had since they returned - I'm hoping it's a good thing?!

ISpy, with the age gap I'm trying to let go a bit of what I pictured and hope that whatever happens turns out for the best it must . I can see the benefits now of having another dc post-September when dd starts nursery 3 mornings a week, as it'd give me a chance to get a couple of hours sleep if I have to bf all night like I was with dd the baby some 1:1 time with me. I am being realistic though and, if, when we finally do have another dc, it takes this long to conceive again we may just have 2 DCs and not the 3 I always imagined... But, like you said, there are pros to that - it means we'd keep our car, we wouldn't outgrow our home and our 2 DCs would have a nice bedroom each and no one would get stuck with the small bedroom etc etc I just know that, when the time comes to making a decision about no.3 I would feel v. Conflicted about it too

It does help to vent put it all in here...x

Thanks Ava, I do believe that whatever will be will be. I think I need a hobby to take my mind off it all! Best of luck girls....

Thanks pear. I used to ovulate much earlier in my cycle pre ds so am worried I'm not ovulating at all. Ah well. We will have to wait and see. Oh is pressuring me to stop feeding if no peak this month. Makes me so sad. :(

Giddy, can we really compare now with how our body worked before our dc1? I'm getting the feeling that our bodies go back to square 1 after having a baby and if that is true it is likely you won't OV at the same time or maybe it's still settling. Perhaps bf is delaying OV for us both!! Tbh I have no blinking idea but I like guessing for you

OK well my Dtd mission is now back on track despite not getting a peak. If I peak tomorrow that will be Sod's law as DH will not be back from work until gone midnight. I am really looking forward to DPO1 whenever that will be!

Ispy don't leave us for too long

I'm sure you're right pear. Hakka for humouring me. Just never crossed my mind when I was pregnant that these things would change afterwards. dunce also in a grump as have massive headache and would have loved a nap this afternoon. Then I remembered I have a toddler.

Hakka. Or thanks. :)

Hi everyone, hope you all had nice weekends.

So sorry AF got you Ava. Hope you're ok.

Am back from the in-laws and managed to DTD twice (CD11 and 12) so am pleased about that, though I think I may have bruised my spine from being on the floor (damn squeaky bed giving us away lol)! I think we will have a break tonight and then back to it tomorrow (CD14). Can't decide when to test as I'm pretty sure I ovulate later than CD14. Last time I was pregnant I tested on CD40 and only got a very faint positive line. It took about another week to become a clear, definite line. Am so worried that I'll randomly ovulate early though and miss the boat! I really should get myself sorted with OPK's!

Today has been tiring. 15 month old refuses to nap anymore but by 5.30pm is so tired and upset. She is currently practicing walking with DH while I sit for two minutes with a . I am hoping the naps will return once she gets the hang of walking and she tires herself out more!

Just felt imaginary pain in ovary. Egg releasing? Damn these imaginery pains!!!

Hi Duchess, good work at the in laws Gold stars for you

Go Duchess - impressed by the dtd at the in laws! Fx it pays off for you.

I'm on cd14 today so I think we're pretty similar. I'm planning to test on cd28 but only because I'm impatient & won't be able to wait much longer I'm not expecting much though as its only cycle 1. Today I have felt sort of achy feelings in my uterus- not sure if this is just because I haven't had a period in so long that my body now feels different, or maybe it's just my wishful thinking imagining something is going on down there (baby making lol)!

Pear x post! I'm getting the same pain lol x