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progesterone cream. It prevents the immature sheeding of your uterine lining. Many of us used it, although I can't remember exactly who.
Use it *after* you O, all the way until you get a BFP. If you are on like 18DPO and you still haven't gotten anything, stop the progesterone and let your period come back.
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I'm still not sure if my lp was the issue or if it was male-factor. I didn't try progesterone cream because much of what I read said it didn't really work (wasn't strong enough)...but if it has worked for some, great! Clomid lengthened my lo to the normal 14 days but I still didn't get pregnant those cycles.

I had a 7-9 day luteal phase with paragard. I have read that paragard shortens it. I also did acupuncture my first cycle off the paragard, and my luteal phase was 13 days- not sure which one caused it, or a little of both. While good, it was also super annoying because DH and I were both sure I was pregnant. I would look into acupuncture.

I used to start spotting 2-3 days before AF showed and the spotting would start as early as 10dpo. I always worried that we would have trouble conceiving because of it and I self-diagnosed myself with a luteal phase defect before we started TTC, but I guess I worried for nothing!

I had a 9-11 day lp, and got pregnant our first month trying (I was shocked). My midwife had my progesterone tested and it was fine. I tried to lengthen with b6, but didn't like the way it made me feel, so didn't have any interventions.

Your prenatal vitamin most likely has all the B6 you need. I think the recommended amount is around 1.3 mg, and the highest you should go is 100 mg. For me, the average B6 vitamin and plus my prenatal would put me over that amount, which means I would pee out the excess, so that's literally money down the toilet.

My doctor always said that most short LPs are caused by weak ovulation so treating it with progesterone, etc is only treating the symptom not the cause (weak ovulation creates a corpus luteum that doesn't produce much progesterone). So drugs like Clomid can help with LP defect because they cause stronger ovulation.