I had a Mirena fitted in December 2006. I'm probably having it removed to TTC this summer, though we're not certain yet.

I had bleeding for about a week after it was fitted (had it fitted on day 6 of my cycle, but my period had stopped the day before), then intermittent spotting for almost a year. That was annoying, i'm not going to lie, but it WAS getting a tiny bit better every month (started off having spotting for 18-23 days when AF was due, it slowly got less and less with every month) and by December 2007 i was having 2 days of spotting when i ovulated and 7 days of spotting as AF. I am on my heaviest AF day today and i'm wearing a 3-thickness homemade cotton liner which is barely marked. We DTD last night with no mess.

I LOVE my Mirena, and i am so glad i got it. I don't know what i'll do after #2 because we think we want #3 quite quickly afterwards, but we shall see. I'll certainly be having Mirena fitted continuously rather than being sterilised once i'm finished having babies.

Feel free to ask questions.

Bx