Ovulation or not?
Hi! I am 6 months postpartum and breastfeeding. My cycle hasn't returned yet. We are going to start trying again when I am 12-18 months pp and weaning baby, but wouldn't be upset if it happened sooner. We're just kind of going with the flow. I tracked cycles with OPK's and temping when TTC with my last, so I know how it goes, but being postpartum I'm confused on my body right now, lol
Last weekend, I got realllyyyy bad mastitis and I'm on antibiotics. Since then, my milk supply plummeted so I'm not nursing as much as I was (we were strictly ebf), but had to introduce bottles of formula now because I'm not making as much. So our night feeds have not been as frequent either. Only mentioning this because I heard any deviation from nursing/breastfeeding could cause your body to ovulate, but who knows!
Coincidentally though, this weekend, I started having some symptoms of ovulation (feeling frisky, lots of energy, etc), LOTS of EWCM (some twinged with blood) and was having very familiar ovulation pains/cramping all day long (I used to get very distinct ovulation cramping). I took a couple LH tests and they were negative, but getting close to a positive result, and then they lightened after 2 days. I used to have extremely dark OPK's when ovulating, so I was expecting the same, but they never reached a full positive this time.
I'm not temping currently, so I can't confirm. But I'm wondering if I missed a true positive because I wasn't testing multiple times per day? I haven't had any EWCM or other ovulation signs before now since being postpartum. I know that nobody can answer for sure, but with all the fertile mucus and other ovulation signs, I'm wondering if it's possible I missed the positive LH or maybe my body tried to ovulate but didn't? And if I did ovulate, we BD during the fertile window, so now I'm just overthinking, lol