What are the chances??? ***Warning - TMI***

[SallyJ]

It sounds like lochia to me - I had it on and off for the full 6 weeks, and didn't get
AF for about a year.

I doubt very much you could get pg when your baby is only a few weeks old.

[The[cookie]Doctor]

Sally - we are extremely fertile in the first weeks after birth - in the first three months we can be more fertile than at other times when we are TTC!! Generally BFing will counteract this but it doesn't all the time.

Nai - i have been BFing at least five times a day - but it does of course differ with everyone and there is also always conflicting advice from EVERYWHERE under the sun. For instance my mum has always got her period back within six weeks even though BFing, except this time but she's put that down to feeding twins.

Anyhow. DR. today had the opinion that BFing is only an accurate measure against ovulation if you're feeding every 3 hours, so i had to discuss Alex's feed patterns (4 HRLY, 6-8 overnight), and when i mentioned the spotting i was made to go for a BT. So will know tomorrow for sure.

Thanks everyone for your ideas, reassurance and support, guess i'll be posting tomorrow just to update.

[SallyJ]

How can you possibly be "extremely fertile in the weeks after birth" if you are not ovulating? The reason BFing suppresses fertility is to give our bodies time to recover from pregnancy and birth before doing it again. It is extremely unusual to ovulate so soon after birth, especially if you are BFing.

[_JeSs_]

ash i have read that too that your really fertile after birth! because everything is still all 'open'.. and you can deff fall preg while BFing
if you read other sites it says that its very easy to fall preg in the 1st months after birth and that the whole BF contraception thing is a myth!
i know a girl who has a 3 month old baby, and wasnt getting her period so she didnt think she could fall preg, but she did!

[Pretty Butterfly]

I have fallen preg 3 times within months, and been fully breastfeeding!!! Lucky i wanted a big family!!!

[River]

Ash, just letting you know that at about 6 weeks this time I got what I thought might have been my first period since the birth (and yes felt completely ripped off in the process LOL), but here we are at 9.5 months without another appearance. Sometimes the lochia stops, but there is still a bit to be expelled, and it happens a few weeks later. Makes you think that AF is on her way regularly, but it might not be the case.

FWIW, some women don't get their cycles back if they are producing ANY amount of prolactin. I don't seem to at the moment, with my third she was on one feed a day and I didn't get my cycles back until I completely stopped (which was annoying because we were TTC at the time).

There is hope that it wasn't AF or implantation.

Best of luck with the results hun. Whatever will be will be.

[Nai]

Best of luck tomorrow - I hope you find out what's going on.