help!!! i need a second opinion!

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Registered: 03-14-2007
help!!! i need a second opinion!
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Tue, 01-29-2008 - 12:37pm

I need all of your thoughts on whether or not you think I'm pregnant, or just REALLY paranoid. I just gave birth to baby #1, Ethan, on 10/11/07. He's not yet 4 months old. I've been exclusively breast-feeding, and normally that acts as a kind of natural bc. But still just to be safe dh and I use condoms. Well 1 month after delivery my period returned, despite reassurances from nearly everyone that it wouldn't come back til' I weaned. And though I'm still nursing, it's regulated itself to be within 2-3 days of when it should be each month. My period in December was weird. I only really ever spotted. But I chalked it up to crazy hormones and the fact that I'm still nursing. It came on time-- December 25th. Well now I'm a week late, should've started on the 22nd, and I can't tell if I'm pregnant or not based off symptoms, b/c a lot of the signs of pg also come with breast-feeding. Fatigue is the biggest. My ds is not yet sleeping through the night, but at least he goes 5 hours or so between feedings which is much longer than it had been when he was newborn. And yet I don't feel any better rested. I'm exhausted. My breasts, which had finally stopped becoming engorged have swollen up again, but that could be attributed to a growth spurt. Really sore, but again, I'm breast-feeding. Another weird thing: my ds who normally is so fond of the breast-feeding that he refuses bottles has started to become a lot fussier. Like my milk has changed. But how can I know if that's it or not? No nausea yet, which with my ds was my biggest indicator, but not all pregnancies are the same, right? Been cramping pretty much this whole week and am having a decent amount of discharge, but no period.

I'm just really nervous. Can't imagine having another kid right now, with ds being so new himself. And to be quite honest I'm afraid to take a hpt b/c if dh saw it he'd flip out. He loves our son, but he is SOOO very not ready to have another.

What do you think?

Rebecca

Rebecca Wife to Joel since 08/06/05 Mommy to Ethan, 10/11/07 Forever missing our twins, due to have been born 08/13/09 Expecting our Christmas blessing 12/28/09
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Tue, 01-29-2008 - 1:42pm
Well first off, bf'ing is no guarantee on not getting pregnant.
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