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Hi ladies,
I have started doing OPKs daily to see what's going on (if anything) with my fertility. I still haven't had my postpartum period after having my daughter seven months ago. I'm exclusively breastfeeding and when I did so with my son, my periods stayed away 14 months and didn't return till I completely dropped all feeds. I'm worried the same will happen again this time. We'd like to be able to TTC our third and last child sooner rather than later (for a whole host of reasons), but if my periods aren't back yet there's no hope.
I have never had much luck with OPKs, but I thought I'd start anyway. I got a somewhat pattern of steadily getting darker and then fading again. I know the test line needs to be as dark or darker than the control, which didn't happen, but if you zoom on the picture, you can see on the 8th and 9th the edge of the test line was as dark as the control line. Now searching online seems to show a lot of other women experiencing the same thing and the general consensus being that means a positive test, but I'm not sure. What would you say?
As I said, it's only the edge of the test lines on the 8th and 9th, the rest of the test line isn't as dark as the control. I also got EWCM on the 9th - but I've had a lot of random mixed cm since breastfeeding.
Thanks ladies.
ps Sorry the picture isn't the best quality, took it at night in poor lighting
I have started doing OPKs daily to see what's going on (if anything) with my fertility. I still haven't had my postpartum period after having my daughter seven months ago. I'm exclusively breastfeeding and when I did so with my son, my periods stayed away 14 months and didn't return till I completely dropped all feeds. I'm worried the same will happen again this time. We'd like to be able to TTC our third and last child sooner rather than later (for a whole host of reasons), but if my periods aren't back yet there's no hope.
I have never had much luck with OPKs, but I thought I'd start anyway. I got a somewhat pattern of steadily getting darker and then fading again. I know the test line needs to be as dark or darker than the control, which didn't happen, but if you zoom on the picture, you can see on the 8th and 9th the edge of the test line was as dark as the control line. Now searching online seems to show a lot of other women experiencing the same thing and the general consensus being that means a positive test, but I'm not sure. What would you say?
As I said, it's only the edge of the test lines on the 8th and 9th, the rest of the test line isn't as dark as the control. I also got EWCM on the 9th - but I've had a lot of random mixed cm since breastfeeding.
Thanks ladies.
ps Sorry the picture isn't the best quality, took it at night in poor lighting