carolyn, SKJ is right, there are lots of women who continue to nurse while pregnant. I've been falling a number of blogs of women who are doing just that, and if you contact your local La Leche League, they will provide lots of info about it. My fertility doc has even given the okay to stay nursing while trying to get pregnant. But my acupuncturist thinks it would be better to cut way down (she didn't say wean completely, though), especially given that my son doesn't STTN-- he wakes up 2-3 to comfort nurse. So she thinks that my own lack of sleeping through the night is hard on me, and maybe my body won't be open to conceiving as easily in this tired state I am often in. However, when I start to really think about it, I conceived my son after the stress of a m/c 3 months before that, having quit my long-term job, and being in a masters program-- I was tired and stressed right out during that period, and everything was fine.
SKJ, when is your daughter's birthday-- I can't be sure of the order of the numbers in the date on your siggy... just wondering how close she is in age to my DS.
Ava'sMama, sorry to see that temp dip. Let us know how it goes... Here's hoping it's just some weird thing happening and you can still get a bfp!
AFM, I've only had 1.5 days of AF-- since yesterday afternoon, I've had nothing, it's gone back to the scant light pink spotting. Could literally be just the ebb and flow of things... What's up with that... I'm going to say it's just that though, and it will come back in full force a little later this morning-- I can't let myself think otherwise, I'm already so deflated. I can't remember if I mentioned it before or not, but we saw our fertility doc last Friday, and so now I'm going in for Day 3 blood testing to check out some of my hormones, and this coming Friday I am scheduled for an HSG. She's saying that my options are: Clomid and IUI, Superovulation and IUI (with the FSH and HCG trigger, and all the blood and u/s monitoring), or IVF. We can start with one, and work our way through them all, or we can go straight to IVF. But, we have to be aware of my age and all the time things would take... I know I do have good looking ovaries with lots of follicles/eggs, from a pelvic u/s I had earlier this year. It would mean weaning my DS if I did that...SO sad. I wanted him to go off nursing on his own terms, but then I guess I really wasn't thinking that I may wish to have another child and I was mentally defying the stats around conception at my age! My DS eats a ton of solids, in terms of variety and amount, but he loves loves loves to nurse. Wish I would have met my husband before 3 years ago and we could have gotten started on building our family a lot sooner.
I was EXACTLY in your shoes last month! Due to my spotting starting on 7 DPO with my DD, when I got the SAME spotting on 7 DPO last month, I was SURE I was pregnant. I started thinking about the due date and when to tell people and how I was going to be pregnant when we go to Brasil in December, etc. Needless to say, when the bleeding picked up, I was devastated. It was only our first month TTC, but I was just so sure I was pregnant. It was an evil trick my mind played on me. Also, my AF was really odd - only 3 days long instead of the usual 5-6. the bleeding was never as heavy as it normally is for me and my supply didn't drop the way it usually does. So while I think you have been TTC for longer than me, I can totally relate. It took a few weeks to get over it, but I am feeling much more balanced this month. I guess I just wanted to say that I understand and I'm really, really sorry.
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