Lily, you ttc?

[moogie]

Are you crazy, Just kidding.  My two are 18 months apart which will be good for when they're a bit older.

breastfeeders, who has AF back yet and how are you preventing?

i had some bleeding a few months back but nothing since,  we're using condoms and thats all.  I hated the mini pill.

[heathernkids]

if you are I have a great vitamin/herbal booster to reccommend to you from Solgar- I was pg on my first try taking them! 

[Lily84]

yeh i am crazy- LOL! yeh dh and i just want to have ours close togather... 18 motnhs is fine, i guess whenever it happens is fine, we just would like them close than 2 yrs apart if possible. I know its going to be hard, REALLY hard, but in a few yrs they will be going to school together, sports or whatever else together, etc. And in the long run, i get my house back soooner when they growu p! my brother and i are 7 yrs apart and to me, he might as well not even exist. i justthink its sad for us, we have nothing in common and no relationship to speak of. Lets say i have db#2 when i am 23, they will be 18 yrs old when i am 41!! that sounds awesome!

What type of herbal supplement are you recommeneding? I would def be interested in trying! My plan, if i could do it the way i want it, is to get preggo in december, so they would be 15 months apart, and september i think would be a good bday month!

I have gotten af about 4 times, but the luteal phase has been like 40 days on some of those   Im not even sure if im ovulating again or not! My ob gave me the mini pill but after dh and i dscussed i decided not to take it. 

[kristenp5]

I know what you mean about wanting yours close together...my brother and I are 5 years apart and were never really close.  For us, it's not just the age thing, but I'm a far left liberal and he's as conservative as you can get so we don't have much to talk about anyway...

We're also planning on homeschooling, so I thought closer together would be easier in that respect.

To answer the original questions--I've had AF twice since Willa's birth, but we don't use birth control as my husband had a vascectomy.  I was on the IUD between the girls and really loved it, but it seemed silly for me to be taking hormones if we're not having any more kids so my husband stepped up 

[Lily84]

oh yeh i thought i should add that after we have # 2 dh is planning on a vasectomy also.

[moogie]

Kristen, hows it going Post vasectomy?  any regrets? we're contemplating it.  How sure were you that you were done?

[heathernkids]

Solgar Female Multiple vitamin. I can find them in some healthfood stores, you can also find them online.
I decided I wanted to ttc mid august last yr. I went and got those vitamins b/c they were recommended to ME, and I took 1 every morning with a glass of o.j. Then at night I took another regular vitamin (you don't want to take more than 1 solgar b/c of the herbs- you don't want TOO much, you want it just right) I charted my 1 cycle, I ovulated on day like 10 per my cm (I always ovulate earlier than midmonth) and a few days after I ovulated my boobs were BIG and veiny. I told dh I was pg and he was like "oh yeah sure". OH YES I was! LOL
Good luck!
My kids are 12, 7 and of course 5 mo. I was only 19 when I got pg, and 24 with Maeve so when I turned 30 I got the baby bug SO bad. I have it still, but dh ignores me when I make "what about just 1 more" comments LOL.
But...hey...I'll keep working on him 
I still haven't had a period- not since Aug 05.

[kristenp5]

We have no regrets about the vascectomy.  My husband had it done on a Thursday and he was fine by the weekend.  He said he couldn't really complain too much, though, because it doesn't compare to two NCB's. 

Our plan all along was to have two kids.  My husband would have loved to have a boy, but, for us, it didn't seem right to have a third just  to try for a boy.  My husband travels quite a lot for his work and we live very, very far away from any family so we thought 2 was plenty financially and logistically (I only have 2 hands  )

Here's our vascectomy story...We went in for a consultation with my husband's doctor when I was still pregnant with Willa, knowing we wanted to do the vascectomy.  The doctor was legally obligated tell us ALL of our options for birth control, the potential side effects and complications.  For my husband there was abstinence, condoms, or vascectomy.  For me there were (it seemed) dozens of birth control, but when the doctor described all of the complications that can be associated with tubal ligation my husband literally turned white and was horrified and scheduled his v/s for a couple weeks after Willa's due date. 

The funny part of the appointment is that about 4 or 5 hours later my water broke and Willa came 11 days early!   To this day I'm convinced that my body was thinking, "well, I supposed I can kick this 8 pound baby out since there's a plan to prevent me from having to go through this again."  (I had a pretty rough second pregnancy)