Eek, I'm being brave starting my own thread like this... I'm a lurker, I usually hang around on another board, but here goes...
I've been breastfeeding for nine months, well I say breastfeeding, I mean expressing... ds was in hospital for a while and the nurses confused him with bottles so he wouldnt take to the breast, so I've expressed the milk for him ever since... The thing is I've never met anyone who's done this for more than a short period of time, I know that breastfeeding makes you temporarily infertile (usually) but I've had periods since the week after giving birth, they are about 2 weeks further apart though... basically to cut a very long story short - we've been trying to concieve again since my son was about two months old, thankfully it didn't happen back then, I think I was suffering from 'bump loss' and it clouded my brain! Then we sort of just carried on, not trying but not using contraception... nothing's happened in 7 months! I'm ending the expressing this month, and we're seriously hoping to get pregnant again, I'm only 17 (but married, thankyou lol)... what do you think my chances are? Do you think it was something other than the making milk that's kept me from conceiving? AARGH!! I'm getting antsy, I really want it to be this month - I have no idea how people who need IVF type treatments manage to stay sane, and I already have a baby!