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Jaune 
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 Posted: 16 October 2011 at 4:48pm |
What makes you sure you're ovulating?
I didn't think you could OV and not get AF. You can have AF and not be ovulating but pretty sure it doesn't happen the other way... Ovulating sets off a hormonal chain of events that end in AF unless the egg is fertilised. Well, that's my understanding of how it works anyway!! Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, I'm sure! 
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nathansmummy
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Posted: 20 October 2011 at 12:28pm |
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10mths after I stopped breastfeeding! I had no idea it could take that long - and started to worry I had early menopause (I'm 36yo). But then looked it up online and it can take that long - so good useful info for those who haven't got it back yet!!
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Posted: 20 October 2011 at 12:40pm |
Jaune I'm assuming she's doing Ovulating tests. You can ovulate without having AF - remember the midwife saying "just because you are breastfeeding and haven't got your period doesn't mean you can't get pregnant!" and giving you a script for the pill and 20,000 condoms which you never use??? 
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Posted: 20 October 2011 at 2:46pm |
10 months after you stopped?! That's mad nathansmummy. 
I've heard it said that it comes back when it would have if you were still breastfeeding (and I always figured that was a sort of old wives tale type thing), but have never heard of it taking more than 3 months, and that for those who stopped early postpartum, but 10 months yikes. That's one of my huge fears, that I'm going to wean my kid to get my fertility back and it won't come back for ages. 
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nathansmummy
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Posted: 20 October 2011 at 3:35pm |
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Oh dear - yeah.. nothing ever turns out the way we want it to, does it? I wanted to have a family and I'm a single mum.. I wanted to have a 2nd baby and at the moment it's looking unlikely.
Don't know your circumstances but the best thing to do is to let it go and what will be will be...
I think in my case it's not very common though if that's of any reassurance ;)
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Posted: 20 October 2011 at 3:37pm |
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Oh and just to add - you can plan family as best you can but there are things that are outside of your control. My advice would be to breastfeed as long as you are happy to breastfeed and stop contraception when you are ready to start trying for another baby.
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Posted: 20 October 2011 at 7:19pm |
 nathansmummy wrote:
Jaune I'm assuming she's doing Ovulating tests. You can ovulate without having AF - remember the midwife saying "just because you are breastfeeding and haven't got your period doesn't mean you can't get pregnant!" and giving you a script for the pill and 20,000 condoms which you never use??? |
Yes - can ovulate and possibly get pregnant before getting AF, but only once because if the egg isn't fertilised you'd get AF.
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Posted: 20 October 2011 at 7:39pm |
okay so I did some online reading and I may not have been actually ovulating just assumed I was as I was getting pains and a whole heap of EWCM (sorry, gross I know) which was all I have gone off in the past.
This explains it better than I could but basically egg ripens but not released when BFing, so maybe that was why I was getting symptoms!
Sorry about the threadjack
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Posted: 21 October 2011 at 8:40am |
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AF not returned yet either and fully BF. Not sleeping through night at all so still 3-4 hourly. We are hoping to try just after DS turns one as we have way too many birthday around May/June! But excited to try again :)
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Posted: 21 October 2011 at 4:16pm |
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Well I was ovulating and not getting AF but did get pregnant and MC a few times but didn't get AF in between. Specialist said it was weird but happens - the body is more complex than we'll ever understand. I also didn't get AF back for over 10 months after I stopped BFing.
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Posted: 23 October 2011 at 12:05pm |
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Not even a spot, almost 9month old ds. Full breastfed, incl 3ish times a night.
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Posted: 24 October 2011 at 4:47pm |
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Wow, thanks for all the responses!
I have always had a sneaky AF - a week after I posted this, she returned!
By sneaky I mean she will come - late or early, when I least expect it. Or I think she has gone - she stays away for a day, then she comes back, just to ruin a nice pair of underpants!
Right, now just have to get used to having her back (and to get the big bag of pads and things I put away while I was PG)
Cheers,
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Posted: 26 October 2011 at 9:28am |
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I had no AF in between pregnancies. Was BF and when DD was 3 months old I was pregnant with DS - no AF in between so yes you can ovulate without AF. After DS was born I think was about 4 months before AF. It was nice to not have AF for 2 years!
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Posted: 26 October 2011 at 11:07am |
xXELAx wrote:
no AF in between so yes you can ovulate without AF |
I agree that you can get pregnant without AF, but had you not fertilised that egg and got pregnant you would've got AF...
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Posted: 27 October 2011 at 10:02pm |
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Err.. congrats on the sneaky AF return Noob? lol.. mines never been on track, even when I was on the pill (which made my body go nuts, so came off it after 4 months!) normally late and could last up to two weeks (yeah I'm really looking forward to THAT agaain!) However, I have been getting cramps lately, and headaches too.. related?
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When did your AF return?
