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

So that was 14 days of getting highs!

I feel so dumb for ignoring the cm signs

I caved and tested a day before AF is due. Got a line!!! Faint but definitely there. I can't quite believe it as I have all the usual symptoms that AF is on her way. Please, please let it stick.

Yay for egg pear!

Amazing news Mary's! Congratulations! Now go tell other bus, you'll be the third today, they'll go mad with excitement! Xxx

Congrats giddy and Mary! Yay for all these BFP's!

Wow Mary, that is fantastic news! Congratulations

Giddy & Mary please can you tell us your stats? This seems like a lucky bus

Yay pear for the peak

Ok so I've been thinking about it & we've decided to carry on ttc this month rather than have a month off! I wouldn't mind having a Xmas baby ... All these bfps have inspired me to keep going

Thanks giddy, hide and mumo. The pessimist in me has been googling 'superdrug false positive'

Giddy I will let the March bus know soon too. I feel bad though because there are some lovely people on there who have been ttc #1 for so long now.

My stats: 37 ttc#2 cycle 3. Dd is 2yrs 4 months and feeds 1st thing, prenap and bedtime. AF returned around 8 months pp, when she was consistently sttn. Af is regular so I presumed I was ovulating ok, although ic opks were never quite positive (I do drink a lot though!).

Dtd the day before my positive opk, then missed a day, then dtd again on the second day of positive opk. (It was negative the day after this.)

Good on yer mumo

Eek Mary that really is so exciting! What's your edd? Do you plan to continue bf-ing dc1?

I think I need to get hold of some opk - want to check if/when I'm ovulating. Can someone please tell me when I need to start using them in my cycle? Going to buy a bunch of cheapy ones on amazon.

Congratulations Mary

Mum - what cd are you? I would have a dec 13th baby if this egg fertilises.

Thanks pear. I'm so sorry that you've had a really tough month.

Mumo this article tells you when to start using opks, depending on your cycle length. They don't confirm that you are ovulating though, they just detect the LH surge that you get prior to ovulation.

Wow, no idea where that link came from. Here's the proper one!

Thanks Mary, that's really helpful.

Pear if I conceived this month the edd would be 23 December!!! Dd was about 10 days late tho so i would hope this one would be too!

I am cd3

Thanks Mary. Can't hide the fact that I'm it's not me who's pregnant but hey at least I'm honest

Mum - that's exciting that you will be testing for Ov soon. They normally say begin about cd8. Cd8-10 is when the CBFM starts asking for sticks. I guess the average women ov around cd14 so that's what they go on.

Thanks pear

Sorry if this is tmi but I am after some reassurance about my af please! (Graphic post coming up... Look away now if you are feeling queasy!) So it arrived on cd24 & the first day it was just dark brown & hardly there at all. Then yesterday (cd2) it was red & much heavier like a normal period. Then today (cd3) it has been v light & now it seems to be tailing off altogether. I'm used to af lasting 4-5 days but I guess this is just my body getting back into the swing of having af again. Does this sound normal to you ladies? I guess it was just shorter than usual (my first af in Feb was 5 days).

Thanks hide, fingers crossed for lots more on this bus.

Mumo, I'm scarily like Mary's, 37, ttc #2, cycle 2, ds is 17 months and still feeding before bed and through the night. I've no idea when I ovulated as CBFM didn't give me a peak but did eod for about a week. Must have fallen lucky.

And fingers crossed for a Christmas baby now you've decided to try next month! X

Aw Mary's , tell them or I will :). I know where you're coming from, it's a fab bus and people are having a hard time, but I love hearing about bfps and a second hat trick will surely be some kind of record? Bound to cheer people up? X

marys !!

Re my earlier post about my af - I know I am desperately clutching at straws here but does anyone think that sounds like it could have been an implantation bleed? The rational part of me is thinking probably not but there is a bit of me hoping it was! I think I just need a slap!!!

Sorry mum wasn't ignoring you, just not an expert! So if it wasn't af you'd be on cd27.... And you don't have any post baby cycle lengths to compare to... What was pre baby cycle length? Have you poas? X

Pre baby it was about 28-30 days. No not poas. I just think it was odd that it was so short - 2 1/2 days in total. But the 2nd day was just like normal af & I've heard that ib is usually just spottingz..? No experience of it. I do think I'm probably just being (embarrassingly) hopeful!

Didn't mean to put the z after spotting btw