Spotting while BFing...

[Guppy051708]

My LO is almost 4.5 months old. I BF on demand. He is not on solids yet. I have had a few days of light pink spotting (since his birth but after PP bleeding stopped). It's never in association with and it's a very small amount. On days that I have it, it's only be present when i go to the bathroom/wipe and only 1-2x that i go that day. It's not enough to warrant even wearing a panty liner and it has never gotten on my underwear before.

I use FF and chart. I have not ov.ed yet and by BBT and natural family planning, i am not nearing ovulation at all. According to my chart, I had spotting on CD 92, 99, 125, and 134. (today is CD 134). It never turns into a flow. It seems to be super random. And then just disappears.

When i had DS1, i did have some breakthrough bleeding on CD 64 and CD 65, but that was it. He stopped nursing around 4 months PP (his choice), and I got my period back at 4.5 months PP (CD 126). I just assume my period returned since i stopped BFing. [just saying this for reference]

Is this normal? Has anyone had this happen before? I am about the same time PP with DS2, as i was when AF returned with DS1, however, i am still BFing on demand. Should i be wearing pads and get ready for AF? Or is this just typical? Heres a link to my chart (we are not TTC and we use condoms when DTD, but i like to keep my chart for another method of prevention).I am not using any type of hormonal BCPs nor any coils. Just barrier method and watching for signs (ALWAYS condoms) My CM has been changing, especially more creamy than usual. And when i noted EWCM, its not the copious amounts that i get when im nearing ovulation, but i added it because its not watery either. My CM is not what i would expect for ovulation.

https://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/Guppy051708

UPDATE* Pics on Pg2, Post #14....

 

[blessedmomma]

i cant really help, but wanted to give

after my pp bleeding stopped i felt like i was gonna start af one day. i had very light spots when i wiped once. i put a pad on and nothing. i havent had anymore spots since then, but it seems like i have ewcm sometimes. im not keeping track of anything, so i cant say if im ovulating or not. and dont know if you can ovulate and not have af either. not sure whats really going on tbh! will be stalking to see how things go with you.

 

[Guppy051708]

thanks for you input hun

It's so weird because the only other time i had spotting was when i was pregnant with DS1 (and 1-2x when i was BFing him)....but im 99% sure i havn't ov.ed...so.....surly can't be pregnancy........can it? Ive been nauseous but i think maybe i just need to eat more often than i have been (bc of BFing)....and ive been getting diarrhea blush...which i did with DS2 (during pregnancy)....but i cant possibly see being pregnant using barrier methods and not having ov.ed yet....of course i suppose God has his ways........... ... ...... ...hmm...

 

[blessedmomma]

yes He does! have you tested just to see? i was feeling sick a few days and tested just to make sure, but it was neg. a couple of my kids got sick a few days later so must have been a bug. i decided to keep a few of those cheapy tests around from dollar tree to test when i felt i needed too. i dont want to be the next one on 'i didnt know i was pregnant' because of bf and not cycling properly maybe you could keep a couple of those around for these occasions?

i get very light cramps sometimes (around when my girls have their af, weird huh?) and wonder if im gonna start. this not knowing does my head in!

 

[Guppy051708]

Two Saturdays ago (16th), the walk-in urgent care center did a pregnancy test because i needed an X-Ray on my foot and bc i dont have my cycles back, they didn't want to risk anything. That test was negative, however, i peed about an hour and a half (maybe 2 hours) prior to that test (didn't know i would be getting one done, otherwise would have held it ). So i dont know how reliable that was or not...but that was a little over a week ago.

 

[Guppy051708]

Good idea about the $1 Tree HPTs! I'll have to pick some up! I will have to go to the town over, though, because i was getting $1 Tree OPKs, but they never seem to have HPTs at the one in my town. Will def. go to the other town though.

DH is bringing home an FRER, just in case.

Now my mind is playing games on because ive been overheated today (and the AC is on and working! No fever, either) My supply seems to have dropped over the last week and Elliot hasn't wanted much of anything to do with it...which i know can be normal, but i guess this is just messing with my head because now im sitting here thinking, what if my supply is dropping bc of pregnancy? what if elliot isn't wanting to nurse bc it taste different, bc of pregnancy? ..and the list goes on....grr! I really dont see how i could possibly be pregnant but i guess crazier things have happened.

 

[staralfur]

I spotted a bit about a month ago, and feared that it was my period coming back...but it only happened a couple of times over two days. I asked my doctor and he said it's totally normal to have some spotting while breastfeeding.

 

[swanxxsong]

I am stalking to see what results you get woman!

I had spotting around 6 weeks after having Aria, one day - only when I wiped. Then again about 40 days ago. Then last week I had my first period and it was heavy. UGH, awfully heavy haha. No spotting beforehand, just a sudden bleed. So I think (just guessing here) possibly my spotting was my body attempting to have a cycle, because both times I have some ovary pain about two weeks after the spotting -- as though my body was trying to ovulate. My mom had similar ovary pain through her menopause, as her body was fighting cycles and such. So that's just my guess as to what my body was doing. So maybe your body is attempting to get your cycle back, but isn't succeeding?

Regardless, please keep us posted! xoxo

 

[Guppy051708]

i read that in a few places.
how much spotting is normal? (how much as in how often)

 

[Jokerette]

Hmmmm i wish i had answers... the only spotting I have had is right before i got my first AF which was 11 weeks pp. But i think all the pink spotting you had would have been more regular if they were actual AF's. and like you said youve been charting. I think I might lean toward the above poster who said it could be your body trying to start ovulating or cycling again. hugs!

 

[Ducks]

Same things happened to me last week. I have been EBF for 4 months and still night feeding so was a bit annoyed that AF was coming already but it just stopped after 2 days and nothing since. And there is absolutely no way I could be pregnant. Think it must be just my body starting to get back to normal again.

 

[Guppy051708]

i thought the spotting would eventually bring AF. But its weird bc the first time i got it was CD 92, and its been super random ever since (im on CD 135 now). I really didn't think anything of it,afterall i had some minor spotting when i BFed DS1. ...but the thing is ive been feeling really weird....like how i did with my pregnancys with the big D, nausea, being over heated, mood swings, and feeling super tired...i could sleep for three days straight if the boys allowed me to but that could just be from motherhood too....but then im like, this has to be in my head...there's no way i could be up the duff right now considering i havn't ov.ed yet, not to mention the fact that we rarley AND we use condoms every time ...its just so weird!!!

I just took an HPT (DH had to come home early bc the boys have been giving me quite the challenge today and i about lost it.)So anyways, i took an FRER. It just has the ghost looking line, which came up right away. but its grey and no pink. (that i can tell).

im going to paranoid until AF actually returns...and who knows when that will happen
I think maybe its just my cycles are trying to come back. Maybe its just trying to gear up but then doesn't from BFing it's def NOT AF but im not digging this mind game!

 

[blessedmomma]

well, not to freak you out or anything but....

with my last pregnancy i was feeling hot, dizzy, and sick as usual when i get pregnant. my first few tests were neg and eventually went pos.

im sure your right about your body gearing up for af, i read it can happen that way with bf

 

[Guppy051708]

whatever it is, this nausea is whats messing with me the most bc yesterday i had it so bad i was so close to throwing up.

Im pretty sure these are just the antibody strip, but whats weird about it is the fact that this line came up immediately as the urine was running across the window. Ive had evaps on FRERs before, but it was never in the allotted time frame for reading the test, and certainly never as soon as i peed on it.

***NOTE*** these looked like this prior to pulling it apart, i just couldnt get a good picture wout doing so.

https://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af180/Guppy051708/032-2.jpg
https://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af180/Guppy051708/030-3.jpg
https://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af180/Guppy051708/028-1.jpg
https://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af180/Guppy051708/025-3.jpg

 

[blessedmomma]

wow hun, if it were me i would say preggo!

my DH looked and said it too....

 

[swanxxsong]

Well I definitely see the line there -- not pink, but I see the line nonetheless! LoL. I hope you update in the morning woman!

 

[RedheadBabies]

Definite line! Keep us posted!

 

[mumanddad]

That bottom picture looks like it has colour to me but i am.on my phone, looks positive xxx

 

[blessedmomma]

they look like they have color to me too, but i may have just seen so many positives that i have a permanent line burned in my retina lol

have you taken any more???

 

[Guppy051708]

they look like they have color to me too, but i may have just seen so many positives that i have a permanent line burned in my retina lol

have you taken any more???

I have not. I was going to take it this morning and totally forgot and went pee I'll take it tomorrow morning...write a note on my mirror lol

I am just really stumped....i dont *think* i see color in them (in RLF), but its so hard to tell!