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Topic: conceiving while breastfeeding

Posted By: Guest_77572
Subject: conceiving while breastfeeding
Date Posted: 14 November 2014 at 4:08pm

I'm currently breastfeeding my 14 week old baby, my periods have resumed ,regularly but instead of bleeding for near on week I seem to for only a few days and that's it and its more spotting this month and when I wipe,sorry for tmi. My partner and I aren't trying for another but we are also not preventing. So my question is, if my period has started back does that mean I'm ovulating already? I strangely thought I may have been pregnant this month but have spotted for a few days now ,I thought I wasn't due until tomorrow but I guess things are still settling down from birth. Has anyone had any experiences of getting pregnant soon after birth while breastfeeding, and if you could still spot and be pregnant.

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Posted By: Mushroom
Date Posted: 14 November 2014 at 5:42pm

Hi - I do know it's possible to get pregnant while breastfeeding a 3 mth old, as several people I know have done so. I also know you can spot while pregnant as I did with both my pregnancies (my son and my m/c). Generally spotting is old blood, and not fresh red.

However, it's possible you aren't ovulating yet, and just getting random hormonal spotting too.It varies so much from person to person! With my son I bled for 5 weeks post-birth, had a week off, then had a period. After that I didn't have anything until he was 7 mths old.

I guess a pregnancy test is the only way to know!

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Me: 35, PCOS, endo, DH: 34, severe MFI
6+ yrs TTC#2
M/C 2012, clomid 2013, IVM 2014, IVF 2015, M/C 2015
2016 FET#1- BFP - MMC - Emergency D&C
FET#2 - BFN
Jul 16 - stage 3 endo removed.
Oct 16 BFP

Posted By: Guest_77572
Date Posted: 14 November 2014 at 6:24pm

Hey thanks for the reply. I'm going to test next week just to double check, I just dont want to to early and waste the test lol. O went through a lot of tests before my new bub cause I m/c twice before her so I was always checking