Hey, all.
My babe is still young, (8 months) but we've been trying for #2 for 2 months. I'm starting to wonder if my overactive letdown/oversupply issues (engorgement DAILY for 8 months, leaking, spraying across the room, etc...) are signs of there still being a lot of prolactin in my system?
We've been charting for over a month, and my temps are very typical wacky anovulatory temps. No AF as yet. For 2 weeks now, V has been consistently going 6-8hrs without nursing overnight (with a few nights here and there where she just wants to nurse for a few seconds) and 4-5 hours between nursing during the day.
I'll admit that we're guiding the spacing during the day, as we really want our 2 spaced as closely as possible, for a host of reasons, some "superficial" (like homeschooling and wanting to be able to work with them as peers instead of setting V up with an activity while I tend to the baby), and some medically valid (I'll be 31 when #2 is born, and my family has a LOT of wacky medical issues and birth defects). She's coping VERY well with it- pretty much, she nurses as much as she wants from the time we wake up to 10am. Then she nurses and takes a 2 hr nap. She eats some solids, plays for 2 hours, then nurses before her afternoon nap. She'll happily go a minimum of 4 hrs, but I don't like to go more than 6 or I'm in wicked pain.
At night, when she rouses (we bedshare) she'll settle when her paci's plugged back in, or, as I said, she'll nurse for maybe 30 seconds or so. She's gaining well, is happy, and healthy, and I don't think in the future she'll fault us for doing mommy-led-partial-weaning so she can have a little brother or sister.
So, by all accounts, this should be enough to induce ovulation, and while we won't know if it's working for another 2 weeks or so, I do have to wonder if we're going to have to wait until she's fully weaned.
Does anyone have any suggestions, or advice from a BTDT standpoint of having OAL for so long, spacing nursing, AND still not ovulating?
I know most nursing mommas don't ovulate until much later than 8 months, but it's getting really frustrating and sad. I got pregnant with V 3 months after coming off Depo, and with M the month after I went off the pill. It feels awful knowing that I'm so fertile but that it's just not happening. Fully weaning her before a year is not an option, but if anyone has any words of advice, suggestion, or even criticism, please share!
Thank you so much.
My babe is still young, (8 months) but we've been trying for #2 for 2 months. I'm starting to wonder if my overactive letdown/oversupply issues (engorgement DAILY for 8 months, leaking, spraying across the room, etc...) are signs of there still being a lot of prolactin in my system?
We've been charting for over a month, and my temps are very typical wacky anovulatory temps. No AF as yet. For 2 weeks now, V has been consistently going 6-8hrs without nursing overnight (with a few nights here and there where she just wants to nurse for a few seconds) and 4-5 hours between nursing during the day.
I'll admit that we're guiding the spacing during the day, as we really want our 2 spaced as closely as possible, for a host of reasons, some "superficial" (like homeschooling and wanting to be able to work with them as peers instead of setting V up with an activity while I tend to the baby), and some medically valid (I'll be 31 when #2 is born, and my family has a LOT of wacky medical issues and birth defects). She's coping VERY well with it- pretty much, she nurses as much as she wants from the time we wake up to 10am. Then she nurses and takes a 2 hr nap. She eats some solids, plays for 2 hours, then nurses before her afternoon nap. She'll happily go a minimum of 4 hrs, but I don't like to go more than 6 or I'm in wicked pain.
At night, when she rouses (we bedshare) she'll settle when her paci's plugged back in, or, as I said, she'll nurse for maybe 30 seconds or so. She's gaining well, is happy, and healthy, and I don't think in the future she'll fault us for doing mommy-led-partial-weaning so she can have a little brother or sister.
So, by all accounts, this should be enough to induce ovulation, and while we won't know if it's working for another 2 weeks or so, I do have to wonder if we're going to have to wait until she's fully weaned.
Does anyone have any suggestions, or advice from a BTDT standpoint of having OAL for so long, spacing nursing, AND still not ovulating?
I know most nursing mommas don't ovulate until much later than 8 months, but it's getting really frustrating and sad. I got pregnant with V 3 months after coming off Depo, and with M the month after I went off the pill. It feels awful knowing that I'm so fertile but that it's just not happening. Fully weaning her before a year is not an option, but if anyone has any words of advice, suggestion, or even criticism, please share!
Thank you so much.
