Breastfeeding Support - 6 months and beyond!

[florabean1981]

all. i just got my and i'm 5 weeks 1 days according to LMP... So I am due about 8th jan 2012! So that puts me among the 'crazies' who are pregnant & breastfeeding, and possible (assuming he doesn't self wean in the mean time) tandem feeding too. Any advice? so far, no sore nipples; just a bit crampy in tummy, restless at night & gone off cups of tea. Only had one day where I've felt sick, but last time I didnt get any symptoms at all untill i was about 9 weeks.

 

[Mork]

Congratulations florabean!!!! I wish you a h&h 9 months!!! So, please share your secret-how often does lo feed? Have you had your periods back and if so for how long???
So happy for you! Xx

 

[polaris]

Congratulations Florabean!

 

[teal]

Congrats florabean! xx

 

[florabean1981]

Congratulations florabean!!!! I wish you a h&h 9 months!!! So, please share your secret-how often does lo feed? Have you had your periods back and if so for how long???
So happy for you! Xx

Thankyou everyone

I got my periods back at 10 & a bit months.... the first 2 were really light & hardly there, the rest have been heavy, painful & lasting 6-8 days Then my last period was 'normal' at last, lol. My son feeds a minimum of 3 times a day, but can be up to 10 times a day if we're sat at home doing nothing all day, lol. But generally it's 3-4 times a day average & he's 19 months old. We've not used any contraception at all since way before harry was born, so NTNP all that time really... I figured it was only a matter of time before a lil bean stuck (& hopefully stays stuck!). No secrets, no planning sex around ovulation or anything. just doing it as n when we felt like it & kinda hoping for the best, lol.

 

[Mork]

Thanks hon for sharing xx

 

[becstar]

Congrats flora!

 

[cleckner04]

Congrats again flora!!

We plan on trying when DH gets back but I know it won't be happening anytime soon. I've been using a CBFM and my luteal phase is only 9 days. So not gonna happen yet. And DH deploys again this November so only 5 months to try.

 

[florabean1981]

Good luck trying in the next 5 months then hun. xxx I just got an odd pic in my head of you & your hubby putting Emma to bed early every night so you can do it all the time! I'll keep my finger's crossed for you cleck!

 

[MNORBURY]

Hi all :wave:, room for a little one?

Only just found this thread, congrats florabean on your exciting news x

 

[staceyg]

congrats florabean!!

 

[cleckner04]

Good luck trying in the next 5 months then hun. xxx I just got an odd pic in my head of you & your hubby putting Emma to bed early every night so you can do it all the time! I'll keep my finger's crossed for you cleck!

We are very sneaky about finding time to too. Whenever Emma falls asleep in the car, we pull it into the garage and do it on the couch that's in our garage.

 

[Kaybee]

Florabean - congrats x

Cleckner Is that why you have a couch in your garage?

Mnorbury - hi & welcome

xNov30x - I never thought I'd do well with breastfeeding either. I sometimes can't believe we are at 20 months now. I dunno where the time has gone

We had a fab holiday. Just days here & there with K.

 

[JellyBeann]

Good luck trying in the next 5 months then hun. xxx I just got an odd pic in my head of you & your hubby putting Emma to bed early every night so you can do it all the time! I'll keep my finger's crossed for you cleck!

We are very sneaky about finding time to too. Whenever Emma falls asleep in the car, we pull it into the garage and do it on the couch that's in our garage.

Is that the only reason there's a couch in the garage?? haah!

 

[Shiv]

Cleck - I SO thought you were going to say you did it in the car park! I read garage as in service station

 

[cleckner04]

No the couch is out there just because when we moved here we had a loveseat and a full size sofa and they wouldn't both fit in our tiny living room. So the loveseat ended up in the garage.

Shiv- We've done it in a carpark(parking lot) before too. Not since Emma though.

 

[becstar]

Congrats again flora!!

We plan on trying when DH gets back but I know it won't be happening anytime soon. I've been using a CBFM and my luteal phase is only 9 days. So not gonna happen yet. And DH deploys again this November so only 5 months to try.

Mine used to be 10 days and I took a b vitamin supplement to help lengthen it. Worth a google? I got pg with La soon after starting taking it.

We are trying again at some point, wanted to this month but husband has got ill grrrr

 

[cleckner04]

I've been taking b-complex vitamins for three months now. No change. I think I'm gonna be one of those unlucky women that just can't get pregnant while BFing.

 

[polaris]

What type of B-vitamins should you take? I now have about four or five days of spotting before AF and I don't think it can be a very positive sign.

 

[cleckner04]

I guess it's best to take a b-complex vitamin which is a mixture of all of the B vitamins. There is a thread about B-vitamins in the TTC section. It doesn't seem to work for me so far but they say in that thread that it could take up to 6 months for it to work.