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I had a really short luteal phase for several months after I miscarrying at 6 weeks. I started doing acupuncture around the same time and was put on a diet by my acupuncturist (which focused on eating lots of whole grains for vitamin B and dark meats for iron support during the follicular phase) and after a few months it started to lengthen by a day or two each month. After my luteal phase got up to 11 days, I got pregnant the next month.

Have you made any dietary changes or started taking any new supplements that could be contributing to this?

@oskarsmommy: I think miscarriages can really screw with your body sometimes. I had another miscarriage after I got my luteal phase back to normal and that time my cycle bounced right back immediately (and I got pregnant that next cycle and all seems to be going ok thus far).

This was the handout with my diet rules (first few pages are some general guidelines and the last few are foods to focus on during the various phases of your cycle)... https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1OR-GYGDpbScl9jSDhRT2U1Ukk/view

It's hard to know what really helped me since I tried everything all at the same time. I was also taking herbs from my acupuncturist. Cutting flour and sugar was tough but I definitely think the diet helped me a lot.

@oskarsmommy:
I had some cycles like that. Usually 26 days but a few that were 24 days. Basically I was still breastfeeding so I believe that had some impact. My luteal phase always ranged from 9-11 days after 1 year pp. Before I stopped pumping at work (at 1 year) my LP was only 7 days. So it lengthened a little bit after I quit pumping at work but I continued breastfeeding (anywhere from 2-6x a day) and I still do breastfeed (2x a day usually)

I am 8w pregnant and the cycle before I got pregnant was 24 days long with a 9 day LP (O on day 15). So maybe the cycle I got pregnant was one I had a slightly longer (10-11 day) LP? She did BF a bit less the cycle I got pregnant (2x versus 4-5x she did other months) so maybe that helped. I did take B6 but I had a stomach flu around O so I actually only took it about half of my TWW. I had taken B6 in the past and it did help lengthen my LP by a day.