Nfp, breastfeeding, and fertility signs

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I’m 8 months post partum, and my daughter is still mostly bf’ed. Dh and i are going to go back to nfp and i am trying to get it all together. I am reading books, watching youtube videos, asking questions, etc! I live on a small island and our church doesn’t have any classes on nfp, sadly, so i am researching as much as i can. We are open to life, and we have 4 kids at the moment, but baby #4 did a number on my body during delivery (she was 10#}
and i hemmoraged (sp?) really badly after she was born. I’m still trying to get my body back on track after that.

My questions:
I haven’t had a pp cycle as of yet. I’m still bf’ing throughout the night and my cm seems to fluctuate daily. One day wet, one day dry…some days wet and dry!
How would i chart while this is happening. I was looking at maybe the creighton method and using the cm to tell fertility, but it’s tough with the daily flucuations! And then, i don’t sleep 6 hours at a time to take a temp in the morning!

With the other kids, while i was breastfeeding, we didn’t abstain andwe didn’t get pregnant while breastfeeding and i wasnt having a cycle. I usually start to cycle again around 15 months post partum. We could just do that again…but i don’t want to chance it!
 
Wet is not the same as lubricative, which is a fertility sign (wet is not).

Creighton is great. Is there a Catholic hospital nearby? My creighton teacher is from the hospital not the diocese.

Also, with Creighton, you don’t check temperature.
 
Ok, thanks! I’ll have to read more about wet and lubricant! Nope, no hospital…super small island!
Right, i know that creighton doesnt use temps…so thats probably best for me now. I’ll probably just have to buy the online course!

Thanks for the reply 🙂
 
catrina2223 said:
Ok, thanks! I’ll have to read more about wet and lubricant! Nope, no hospital…super small island!
Right, i know that creighton doesnt use temps…so thats probably best for me now. I’ll probably just have to buy the online course!

Thanks for the reply 🙂
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Feel free to pm me any questions you have. I have access to an awesome Creighton nurse.

Good luck!
 
Have you thought about the Marquette method?

It uses a monitor and it has a very good breast feeding protocol and it can help give you a clearer indication about what is going on.

Besides…it’s all done online.

I’m only about 4 weeks PP but I’m not sure what is going to happen. I’ve breastfed my kids and got my cycles back at 5-6 weeks PP.

I’m not even going to bother with any NFP for a few months…hubby and I are doing nothing but abstinence until I feel comfortable with my cycles again…and if I don’t feel comfortable? Back to total abstinence.

I’m with you…I absolutely do not want to get pregnant at all.
 
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Have you thought about the Marquette method?

It uses a monitor and it has a very good breast feeding protocol and it can help give you a clearer indication about what is going on.

Besides…it’s all done online.

I’m only about 4 weeks PP but I’m not sure what is going to happen. I’ve breastfed my kids and got my cycles back at 5-6 weeks PP.

I’m not even going to bother with any NFP for a few months…hubby and I are doing nothing but abstinence until I feel comfortable with my cycles again…and if I don’t feel comfortable? Back to total abstinence.

I’m with you…I absolutely do not want to get pregnant at all.
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Aww, congrats on your new baby!

That method looks pretty good as well! Thank you 🙂
 
If you haven’t been temping, you could try and see. Some women are less sensitive to changes than others. My temp is only “unreliable” in the morning if I’m sick or if I drink more than two alcoholic beverages in an evening. I do know that other women can be much more sensitive to changes, though - I just mention it because it’s not necessarily the case that temping won’t work for you (especially if you aren’t getting out of bed to nurse the baby). I know that I really like having temperature as a backup, knowing that (at least for me) it’s dependable. But for some women it’s not.

If you are very adamant about avoiding conception, I think a method like Marquette would be very good because it takes the guesswork out, but the difficult aspect of it is price (for the monitor and then testing sticks.)

My guess - and this is only a guess, so only give it what it’s worth there - is that if you’re not cycling until 15 months postpartum and that’s been your pattern after every baby, you are *probably *not ovulating this soon. The reason I say so, is that my pattern has been basically similar - lots of fluid, but not fertile fluid, and no other indicators of ovulation. Creighton could be a good method for you because you could learn to detect changes in fluid that would indicate impending ovulation. I haven’t learned it because at least for me so far the change I get before I begin cycling again is very obvious, but Creighton is supposed to be very good for recognizing and interpreting more subtle changes.

I will also say that so far in my case avoiding pregnancy has not been a super big deal, so I don’t need to know with the same level of exactness as others like or need. I just read your situation and think that agonizing for possibly 7 more months over interpreting what are some of the hardest signs to interpret (the other situation being perimenopause) has to be incredibly stressful. :o So I hope you can find something that works for you but also doesn’t stress you out a lot - you’ve got a lot on your plate!
 
My wife and I use creighton and we love it, I actually chart for her on my IPhone at the end of each day. Once you get the rhythm down its not problem, you can pretty much predict when you’re fertile. Also if you have any kind of problems someone trained can tell you a ton from your charts. I didn’t know anything about nfp when I was introduced to it. Now I love it and it makes me feel good to understand things. Btw we have 2 children 3 1/2 years apart right now, so it works!
 
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