Pattern of Returning Fertility

[Gabi]

Hi. I haven't posted over here in breastfeeding before, but my little one is three months old and I have a question about my fertility.

My husband and I use Billings (a natural birth control method). I don't really want to disclose whether we are using it at the moment in order to avoid or to conceive. But I am monitoring my symptoms, and I was wondering what other people's symptoms have been. Was your first AF a huge one, a normal one, or spotting?

TMI ALERT!

I had some mettleschmerz at about 5 wks pp, then an increase in flow at 7 wks pp. My lochia stopped at 9 wks pp. Then at 11 wks pp I noticed some scant mucous and thought maybe I would see af next week (13 wks pp), but this week I have had some yellow spotting.
What do you think? Is it a really light and early af?
What was it like for you?

[MantaRay]

Best of luck Gabi for whichever answer you are hoping for. I didn't get AF back until 7 months pp first time and 6 months the second, although I did have some bleeding after the lochia stopped after DS1. I found I had all sorts of things happening with cm while bfing, and when AF did return, it was very irregular (although it didn't take long to conceive DS2 once AF returned). So I'm not sure I am of much help, except to say that your fertile signs might not be as obvious while bfing.

[LuluHB]

I could pretty much repeat what you said for how things went with me pp DD#1. At 13 weeks pp I was pregnant. I never did see AF - the lengths some people will go to ;-)

[~Raven~]

The spotting could be a light AF or it could be ovulation spotting.

[Gabi]

Guess we'll have to wait and see.

Thanks for your replies!