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Following along b/c we're in the same boat! My daughter is 5.5 months and we're ready to TTC. We did infertility treatments to get pregnant, so I'm not sure how much help we'll need this time. My LO has just started solids, but I wouldn't say it's reduced the frequency of breast feeding at this point.

I don't exactly fit your description, but I got pregnant while breastfeeding my 17 month old toddler. My periods didn't come back until he was almost a year, and they were very wonky until I got pregnant. My first cycle was two months long and the second was a month and a half. I had always been someone who could predict my period by looking at a calendar, so it was frustrating not knowing when my next period was coming or when I was ovulating. After I got pregnant, my milk slowly dried up to where I wasn't producing anything, so I decided to wean my son. I wasn't really interested in nursing all through my pregnancy anyway, and that made it super easy to wean him without any discomfort on my end.

Like @Truth Bombs: this would have been impossible for me- though there was no way to know it at the time. I didn't get my period back until she dropped down to only nursing at bedtime, which was about 18 months in our case. We did not want our LOs so closely spaced so we actively prevented during that time just in case, which I now know wouldn't have made a difference.

I did get pregnant while she was still nursing once a day and she dropped it completely a week after I conceived, but she was showing all the signs of being ready to wean anyway so I'll never know if it was related (nor do I really care since it was a good time for weaning for us).

I didn't get my period back when I was EBF until 9.5 months. And even then, my LP was too short and I wasn't able to get pregnant until we had weaned down to nursing once a day.

Best of luck to you.

We decided to start trying when LO#1 was 8 months, and I hadn't had a period at that point. I got OPKs and did them every day, and didn't ovulate until she was 12 months. We got pregnant on that cycle.

She was still bfing at the time I got pregnant, and she bfed A LOT. I had no supply issues whatsoever, and she didn't slow down at all either so that is totally possible. It was very difficult, however, to continue bfing through pregnancy. It is HARD to bf through nipple sensitivity, sickness, feeling like you don't want to be touched, hormones, etc. And then, after bfing through the whole pregnancy, I was tandem nursing and had a newborn and a toddler who wanted to nurse all the time, which is also very difficult. When we do this again, I am planning on waiting until my LO has weaned.

I got pregnant at four months pp and have had supply issues. I BFed my first for 15 with no issues. We've had to start solids early with my second. So far I'm still doing ok BFing, but she is eating way more solids than most babies her age (6.5 months).
This pregnancy was unexpected and I would have wanted to wait longer to ensure I could BF my second for a full year.

My period was back early despite breastfeeding and I got pregnant at 7 months PP. I was able to BF for two more months before I dried up completely.
My friend never got her period and she got pregnant at 5 months PP. She nursed her LO for the first 6 months of her second pregnancy and was still able to pump a lot!

@Truth Bombs: just pointing out that it's not an impossibility like you said in your original post. I understand that it's not very probable or likely.

I got pregnant when my daughter was 8 months old (I had not seen a period yet and we were ntnp). I continued to breastfeed until she was 1 year but it really took a toll on my body. I developed some low blood pressure issues and passed out a few times. Doctor didn't blame it on breastfeeding but said it certainly didn't help. After I weaned it got better but didn't go away.