Cycle day 105. Is there any hope for something to happen?

[zwitterion]

I am still breastfeeding my 20-month-old DD, with the result that I am now on CD 105 and have not yet ovulated. During this cycle, I have added 100 mg daily of B6 (in a complex)--that was back in December--and not quite a week ago, I started 1500 mg/day of Maca. For the last month or two, I have pretty constantly looked fertile by my fertility signs: high, soft, open cervix, creamy to EWCF, etc., but nothing doing for ovulation. I really can't emotionally take this much more. Is there any chance at this point in the cycle that I will ovulate? I am considering using parsley tea to try to induce AF and start a new cycle, but I worry that I am about to ovulate any day now and will mess that up and have to wait another 4 months for anything to happen again. Does anybody have any opinions or ideas on this? I am at a loss and tired of being so depressed about it.

[karmab]

im not sure what to do. there is only so much you can do i think, take care of yourself and that sort of thing, which it sounds like you are doing. i bf my 4 between 17-22 months each. i did get pregnant with #4 while bfing #3, when #3 was just basically nursing at naps and bedtime. but with all i only had maybe two afs the whole time i was bfing, so i wasnt keeping track, but my cycles were like 5 or 6 or 7 mths long! it feels like mother nature doesnt like us ovulating while we are bfing, so it is just hard, like swimming upstream. im not sure this sounds encouraging, even though that's what i was aiming for. i guess the bottom line of what i was getting at is it's not your fault, it's nature, and you are doing the right things. be gentle with yourself! i know your dd appreciates your tender mothering.

[MaerynPearl]

Yeah... it sounds like as long as you are breastfeeding there is nothing really you can do to bring your fertility back to a predictable schedule other than weening... and that doesn't seem to be an option you are considering... so it really sounds like you are going to just have to put your TTC hopes on hold until you are ready to ween. Inducing a period is not going to bring about ovulation sooner if your body is not ready to start ovulating yet due to nourishing your nearly-2 year old.

Some women can get their fertility back right away despite breastfeeding (I'm one of them, it sucks because then I have to be super careful) and other women as long as they are breastfeeding so much as once every few days their body still does not want to resume fertility... no matter what you do.

If even a little weening is an option perhaps you could cut out one feeding per day for a couple weeks... if that doesnt do anything, cut out another one... until your fertility does return. No one, not even a doctor, can tell you what YOUR body as an individual will respond to.

[zwitterion]

karmab - thanks for your thoughts! Don't feel bad if it's not all sunshine and roses. I'd rather have realistic expectations than false hope.

MaerynPearl - thanks for responding! I totally know that my body may or may not ovulate while breastfeeding at all, and my DD is very attached to nursing. I'm not ready to completely wean her yet, and she's not ready for it, either. I am considering nightweaning, but it will be hard with my stubborn little girl. I think I've needed this reality check. I wonder if I just need to let my charting, etc go until something happens with my cycle and reevaluate from there.