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Delaying Return of Fertility Postpartum

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    I EBF on demand, and have a plump constantly hungry little girl which means we rarely go longer than 2 hours during the day without a snack. When she started sleeping through the night, I thought AWESOME - but with that came my period... At 3months PP.
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  • flummadiddle85flummadiddle85 member
    If you're interested in forgoing artificial BC, I would read Taking Charge of Your Fertility. Every woman is different. Even within the EBF parameters, you need to be aware of your fertility signs, and be on the lookout for when they return. The fertility signs of approaching ovulation can happen several times in the PP time before ovulation occurs. But each time, you need to act as if you are going to ovulate. We use NFP... So I'm pretty familiar with all that.
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    This is what planned parenthood says about it:

    Their 'rules' seem a little risky to me though.  I don't think I would be comfortable with letting baby sleep more than 4 hours at night if I was really relying on BFing as a form of birth control.

    That being said, it's different for everyone.  For me it has been a great form of BC.  It's all we've ever relied on and thus far it seems if I keep it to 3 feedings a day we seem to be infertile.  But we've always been willing to roll the dice a little because if we had another right away it wouldn't have been the end of the world.  If we were totally against having another in the near future we would not have relied on this method, if that makes sense.
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  • SidraJediSidraJedi member
    edited March 2014
    I second kellymom, the site is very helpful and honest.

    DD has never taken a pacifier. She has never STTN (maybe 2or3 nights TBH), I am SAH so I have not had to pump (except when she was sick and couldn't latch for four days)

    I still haven't had a PP AF. DD is 12 months old.

    I am temping and we are careful but I don't like hormone BC either. However if we had another baby accidentally we would be totally happy about it so there's that. Our preference is to wait another year.

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  • KariB509KariB509 member
    Lurking. I personally wouldn't trust ebf as a form of bc, no matter how often you nurse. When I was BFing ds, it wasn't even exclusively and my period still didn't return until several months after I completely stopped. Not having a period doesn't necessarily mean you're infertile though. At this point, I don't want any more children and I wouldn't want to risk it.
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  • Mum2Be28Mum2Be28 member
    I'm not sure I'm answering the question but just stating what I'm doing. I'm EBFing and not using any form of birth control. I'm sort of hoping It keeps me from getting pregnant this soon, but if I absolutely did not want another child yet then I would get on birth control or use condoms-- even though my period has not returned yet (I'm 4 months PP). My OB told me its highly unlikely to get pregnant while EBFing but it still happens.

    I only had 3 periods the year that I got pregnant. So I definitely don't use my period as any sort of guideline. But that's just me.
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    WildFlower26 said:
    I don't use birth control other than NFP, for both health and religious reasons. I truly beleive NFP works, but with DD I had difficulty with it PP. My temps are all over the place if I am BFing at night, and my mucus observations were all over the place. With DD, she used a pacifier, and I got AF and crazy cycles back at about six months. I suspect most of which were anovulatory. I found PP charting very stressful. DD was 19 mos when I got this BFP and I was still BFing 2-3 times a day. At this point I was no long trying to avoid. I appreciate the feedback. Mostly I am just looking for others experience to either give me a little more confidence for the short term, or to possibly reconsider my decision. I wish I felt more comfortable with this, but it is causing me a lot of anxiety. With two LOs already I just want to be sure I carefully consider the position I am in. It always helps to hear from others!

    How did you learn to chart? At first I read TCOYF, and then DH and I took a class through CCL. Through CCL, we have a local teaching couple we can ask questions, show charts, meet 1:1, and generally just have some support. If you are finding it difficult to chart PP, see if there is someone around you that you can ask for help. Charting PP is tricky, but totally doable. CCL is religious based too.
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    edited March 2014
    It looks like they offer a home study/virtual course. It says they will help review your charts, and they do offer a course for postpartum. https://ccli.org/learn/
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    Muirmaid said:
    DS has never gone more than 3 hours between nursing sessions, and more frequently nurses every hour or two. He loooves these boobs! I had my first PP period when he was five months, and I assumed it was anovulatory because of how much he nurses, but I may have been wrong, because I was pregnant eight weeks later. Based on an early ultrasound, I must have ovulated about two weeks after he turned six months. We had just introduced solids (and we're doing BLW, so I don't think his milk intake had even decreased at all).
    Once you have your first PP period you have to consider yourself once again fertile.  That's part of the method:
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