I too would try to not have her completely fall asleep after the feed. I feed before a sleep most sleeps and DD is sometimes out to it and sometimes not. I take notice of the sucking and when i know it's more of a comfort suck than actually feeding i will put her to bed. If she's awake when i do this i tuck her in, give he a kiss, whisper good night and walk away. Mostly she is happy to fall asleep herself but if see needs more help, i pat, if she needs more than that i get her up and hold her.
And just a little extra note... I fell pregnant when breastfeeding DS2 and continued for a couple of months into the pregnancy. He started biting and that was it for me
It is possible to be fertile while breastfeeding (as many women discover). It is also possible to fall pregnant the first time you ovulate, and so never have a period.
See how you go babyluv, you don't want too many tears obviously so just go with the change really gradual. She will hopefully embrace the change soon enough. Good luck xo
DD was a bit of a surprise (but the best surprise we could ask for), but i did have my af back. I think for us we just slipped up on being careful around the fertile time. With my boys i got my af back when they were about 8 months old and i still breastfed them for another 5-6 months after that. Do you have any idea where you are in your cycles at times (assuming you don't have af yet)?? I could sometimes tell using my skin as an idication, i would breakout a little or get really dry skin. I've never used OPTs before so no help there sorry
I assume the tests would work. I'd wait and watch for fertile signs before starting to use them though. It's a bit hard to 'catch' the first ovulation before your cycles resume properly, and sometimes you get af first, then start ovulating. If you ovulate, you will have a period, unless pregnant of course.
Everyone's different - some women resume their cycles very early, despite exclusively breastfeeding, some will not ovulate until they've completely weaned, and everyone else is somewhere in teh middle. You could look into Billings for more info on tracking your fertility.
I think i take for granted what my body has been through these last few years, especially the time frame of feeding DS2, falling pregnant and feeding DD but it's been so wonderful i wouldn't change a thing. There are definaltey different signs (different signs for different bodies) indicating where we may be in our cycles. I still get ewcm without af. I'll be interested to see if it returns soonish now that DD has pretty much reached 'that age' for me. With DS1 i fed him up until 13 months and we conceived #2 when he was 16 months.
Like MadB said a SIL of mine fell pregnant when breastfeeding her DS (he was over 12months) and she'd had no af.
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