TTC While Nursing- OCTOBER! - Page 2

[AudreyB3]

Hi I've been a lurker as well, still waiting for AF. Please add me to hoping to catch the first pp egg. DD is 17 mos and nurses about 3x day and usually once at night. Have been not preventing for a few months..was charting for a while but getting so many mixed signals from bf and needed to take a break. We're just waiting and ready to actively ttc anytime AF decides to come on back

[MyKidKissTrees]

Welcome out of lurkıng AudreyB3!!  You have been added!!  I cannot even count how many tıme DS stıll nurses day and nıght... ıts lıke a newborn!  I am stıll shocked I got AF back!!

[lifeguard]

DD will be a year on the 7th! Af didn't return until 18mos with ds & then we actually induced with drugs.

[jen&james]

Going on 22 mo PP and still no PPAF!  My daughter is only nursing about 4 times in a 24 hr period and she is nightweaned so i don't know what to think.  My PPAF came back by 20mo or so with both boys as I nightweaned a little earlier at 18 or 19 mo.  Is there anything i can take to try and encourage my body?  I have been having false starts to O but no O.  I get fertile CM lots of it, increased sex drive, ovarian tenderness and my OPKs darken but are never positive and then they lighten and all sympotoms disappear. This has been going on for at least 4 months now about every 3 weeks or so.  Its like my body keeps trying but just won't finally O.   I don't want to fully wean as I didn't have to when I was TTC with my boys.  I nursed till about 4mo PG.  Once my cycle returned with them it didn't seem to affect O at all.  Anyone have any suggestions on some things I can try to jumpstart my body?

[MyKidKissTrees]

Jen my DS and your DD have the same exact bırthday 12.17.2010 :)  how cool!!   we HS too!

ı wısh ı could help wıth the jump startıng but ı got no clue.  mıne showed up randomly rıght after we decıded to have another as soon as possıble...

[BabySmurf]

Hi All! I haven't checked in in a while, but I figured that I would update, since I am still listed in the roll call....We just caught the first PP egg!! Yay! We should be due early june
 

[LivingSky]

Congrats BabySmurf!!

Well, we're back to Waiting to O. I started spotting yesterday and I expect AF in full force today. On to next cycle - which I'm pretty okay with since last cycle really was a bust, timing wise. This cycle will be my second on Vitex, and I'm thinking of adding Maca too. It's considered safe while breastfeeding so I figure it can't hurt!

[MyKidKissTrees]

YAY BabySmurf!!!  Want me to move you to Success Storıes?

Sorry to hear that LıvıngSky :(  October ıs our month!!
 

FF ıs tellıng me to get down on ıt frı, sat, sun... should be ınterestıng as we are all 4 stayıng ın one room ın my FILs house rıght now whıle on vacay and we travel back to the states on O day... so no way to DTD at 20,000 ft.  unless.... mıle hıgh club?  that mıght be an AWESOME story for later.  

[BabySmurf]

Originally Posted by MyKidKissTrees 

YAY BabySmurf!!!  Want me to move you to Success Storıes?

Sorry to hear that LıvıngSky :(  October ıs our month!!
 

FF ıs tellıng me to get down on ıt frı, sat, sun... should be ınterestıng as we are all 4 stayıng ın one room ın my FILs house rıght now whıle on vacay and we travel back to the states on O day... so no way to DTD at 20,000 ft.  unless.... mıle hıgh club?  that mıght be an AWESOME story for later.  

Yes please!
And good luck to everyone else :)

[LivingSky]

LOL Last time I conceived November 1st (2010). So I kind of don't want to conceive this time around as I don't want DS to have to share a birthday (or be really close in birthdays). But last time I conceived I said a similar thing for a different reason, so maybe for me the key is TTC on a month that I don't really want to get pregnant!

[AudreyB3]

Congrats Baby Smurf! Any trucks you used to encourage O?

[MyName]

Congrats BabySmurf!

Sorry about AF, LivingSky.

AFM- I'm just chilling out in the TWW still. Trying to stay calm and not test at only 6 DPO. Hehe. I want to hold out until after 14 DPO, but realistically holding out until 10 DPO would be a miracle for me. I need to stay strong. ;)

[BabySmurf]

Originally Posted by AudreyB3 

Congrats Baby Smurf! Any trucks you used to encourage O?

Ugh, patience?

My situation was that I eat a more paleo type diet, was on the underweight side, and my DS (23 months) still nurses 2-4x at night, and many times during the day.  I had been feeling like my cycles would return soon, but hadn't seen many true fertile signs.  Then all of a sudden my DS started eating a bit more, sleeping a bit better, and I gained about 3 pounds by introducing more carbs.  And then BOOM.  I had been checking my cervix, and one day it seemed to be pretty apparently SHOW.  Unfortunately DH and I didn't get a chance to BD after that.... but, apparently we did DTD within enough time before I O'd...and so far so good! I am really paranoid though that my body isn't *really* ready for it.  If you are seeing some signs that your body is revving up, then it probably won't be long or doesn't need much tweeking in order to see AF....or catch the first PP egg.  (I am really psyched that I haven't had a period since Feb 2010, and now won't for another couple years to come!)

GL!!

[AudreyB3]

Thanks!!!!

[MyKidKissTrees]

I thınk everythıng ıs all updated to here!!  Let me know ıf I mıssed somethıng!!  

anyone know why they dont let us COPY PASTE when we edıt?  SO ANNOYING!!  I have to re-type everyone ınfo agaın everytıme!  Not a huge ınconvenıence... but stıll... whats theır beef wıth copy/paste?

AFM: Im on CD 11.  We started our offıcıal actıvıtıes yesterday and wıll hopefully get ın once a day untıl CD 14 (all day flıght back to states preventıng actıon). And then ıf the jet lag doesnt kıll us once on Tuesday... fıngers crossed.

I have been hearıng though that peoples fırst PP cycles were TOTALLY long... I just can fıgure out how to fınd O day ıf my cycles all wonky... anyone have any experıence wıth super long cycles post partum?

[RosieL]

Hi all! I'm patiently waiting to TTC, but I know I won't be so patient in just a few months! DS is 6mo and I want to wait at least until he is 9mo for VBAC spacing (18 mo between births). DH agrees to TTC starting at 12mo, I need to avoid being due in December or Jan, so that realistically puts me at 14mo pp.

I have opened this thread and closed it back up so many times lately. I don't want to get wrapped up in TTC this time. I was pretty obsessed last time and fully believe it contributed to our delay.

Any tips for patience? I do love nursing my boy...and nighttime is the only time he really drinks deeply. Otherwise he's entirely too distracted by life happening around him for a proper meal!

[Jules09]

I just wanted to update here that I got my BFP after my second PPAF, with DD at 25 months old. Fingers crossed for a sticky baby! Lots of baby dust to everyone here!

[MyKidKissTrees]

Welcome RosieL Its so hard waiting to be ready!!! I have been the one not there emotionally for months and months after my sons traumatic birth.  But I was ready like two weeks after DD was born for another.  She was an angel though... DS... YIKERS!  holy high needs. I thought I would never want another!

WOOHOOO Jules09 :))  So excited for you!! Have a fabulous pregnancy and birth!

I think everything is all updated to here!  let me know if Im forgetting anything!

AFM: pretty sure Ive got fertile CM going on but I chickened out last night and pretended to be asleep... my head was just not in the right place.  And I felt like I was getting mixed vibes from DH.  Which put me off.  Of course I was pissed he didnt even TRY to wake me up... (yes it was like some high school style behavior i know!)  haha.  But today I remembered that he is ALWAYS indecisive emotionally even though decisive verbally.  So there is no point in waiting for him to FEEL ready for anything.  That will never happen.  I just have to listen to what hes saying instead of reading into his signals so much!  So hopefully today/tonight we will be working hard instead of hardly working! 

Sending out lots of fertility vibes to all those in the TWW :)

[Lidamama84]

Welcome, RosieL! I'm in the Waiting to be Ready phase too...it's so hard when your heart says one thing and your mind says another!! We have decided to start trying after DD2 turns 2, which puts us at next July. BUT, for me the big payoff in waiting is that I will have 3 years difference between my next two, instead of two years, which was really hard emotionally because my DD1 is HIGH needs. In fact, I don't think there is a bold enough text to highlight how intense she is!!! The other payoff will be that when I go back to work, I will only have one little one in daycare, and two kids in school full-time, rather than two kids in daycare like I have right now. $$$$$

Good luck to you!

[RosieL]

Thanks for the welcome! Congrats Jules!