WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for September, 2002: Re: Baby is 14 months old and no period in sight (for two years) due to nursing...but had some spotting??

Re: Baby is 14 months old and no period in sight (for two years) due to nursing...but had some spotting??

From: Samir Fouad Aziz MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:23:18 -0500 (CDT)

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At Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Jen wrote: >
>Hi! :)
>
>I am nursing Lindsey, who is fourteen months old, 3-4 times a day still.
>I am thinking of TTC but can't really with my period no where to be
>seen! Two weeks ago I had some spotting. Just for one trip to the
>bathroom and not even enough to get on my panties (sorry for graphics)
>but enough to "catch" when I wiped. It was pink/brown and seemed to
>have a lot of CM with it. At first I thought implantation bleeding but
>my hopes were dashed with a negetive HPT a few days later. So I thought
>maybe I could count it as my first PP Period. I just forgot about it.
>Then today (two weeks later) I got it again. Same thing! What is going
>on? Is this my period TRYING to start?
>
>Thank you,
>
>--
>Jen Seger
>Mommy to Morgan, Emma and Lindsey (still nursing strong)

as long as you still nursing it is difficult to know exactly if ovulation occurs or not,however,absent period suggests absent ovulation.you can try to conceive after weaning.we can not consider spots as a true period you are still in a state of lactation amenorrhoea. >

-- Samir Aziz MD Asist.Professor Ob.Gyn Director Gyn.Oncology Al-Azhar University-Egypt Editorial Advisor Obgyn.net(P&B,gyn.Oncology)

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