Pregnant while BF'ing and charting?

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1babysmom

Discussion Starter · Aug 13, 2006

I'm posting this in 2 different places because I'm not really sure where it belongs...??

Anyway, I was wondering if any of you became pregnant while breastfeeding AND charting. I've been charting since shortly after DD was born so I'm familiar with my BF'ing temps/cycles (AF came back at 4 mos PP even while following LAM religously!). Anyway, my question is, did your charts show ANY sign of pregnancy (high temps, for example), or would you have never known judging from your chart alone??

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broodymama

· #2 · Aug 13, 2006

I became pregnant with DD while nursing my DS and charting. I could definitely tell from my chart, it was very similar to my pregnancy chart from DS. Plus, my LP was longer than 6 days that cycle.

Here are my charts if you are interested. The first graph shows my 2 pregnancy charts overlaid, then under that are my nursing charts.

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1babysmom

Discussion Starter · #3 · Aug 13, 2006

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Originally Posted by LadyBug & BabyBug
I became pregnant with DD while nursing my DS and charting. I could definitely tell from my chart, it was very similar to my pregnancy chart from DS. Plus, my LP was longer than 6 days that cycle.

Here are my charts if you are interested. The first graph shows my 2 pregnancy charts overlaid, then under that are my nursing charts.

Awesome! Thank you so much! How old was your DS when you got pregnant, if you don't mind me asking?

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broodymama

· #4 · Aug 14, 2006

DS was 13, almost 14 months when I got pregnant, he was nursing 8-10 times a day and once or twice at night.

(My LP was 6 days after he was born.)

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metroames

· #5 · Aug 14, 2006

I charted while TTC and breastfeeding. Thank goodness I did! I only had two periods postpardum and we had planned on TTC as soon as our son turned a year old. I had my second period at the end of November started charting then to get a handle on my cycles. Then I got pregnant near the end of February. So it was one long 3 month cycle! It was very obvious on my chart that I had ovulated. I still get a kick out of when I get asked when my last period started. I have to explain it every time. When I made my first prenatal appointment the receptionist had to go ask the midwife how to "deal" with the situation because she couldn't use the last menstral period to go by.

That chart saved me an unnecessary dating ultrasound too!

Amy

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mary3mama

· #6 · Aug 14, 2006

Yeah, I was still bfing my toddler, at least to go to sleep at night, and charting when I got pg this time. There was a clear difference in my temps when I conceived this wee one. The whole thing was different. In all other non-pg cycles, for example, my temp would dip down at 5DPO and then go back up until 10DPO and then dip again and usually not return up. With this pg cycle, my temp went way high at 5DPO, then back to a normal high and then shot up again around 10DPO, instead of dipping. In retrospect, I probably could have known earlier, but didn't want to get my hopes up again. When the strange stuff continued at 11DPO (temp higher still, and on the day that AF usually appeared) I took a test and YIPPEEE pg!!!

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melanie83103

· #7 · Aug 14, 2006

Yes! I was charting AND breastfeeding when I got pg. My temps were high after O and remained high. My chart link is below in my signature.

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Naughty Dingo

· #8 · Aug 15, 2006

Yeah, I was still nursing too. The biggest difference for me is that my luteal phase is irregular and very short when I am nursing. But the pregnancy charts were pretty text book.

ND

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autumn_faune

· #9 · Aug 15, 2006

I'm there with you. But my chart was really off, it went up after ovulation like a normal chart, and went down when I would expect my period, just like I would expect with no conception... but just 1 day of spotting, then it stayed down for another 6 days and started doing a *very* slow climb back up toward the baseline. I started progesterone supplementation, and it went up higher than post-ov. Very weird chart.

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