What if I want to attain pregnancy, but cannot because I am experiencing lactational amenorrhea?
First try charting Basal body temperatures see if you’re ovulating. Often a woman who is experiencing lactational amenorrhea will have many anovulatory cycles complete with menstruation even though she is not ovulating. If you are ovulating and you have a short luteal phase (the number of days between ovulation and menstruation) then that might be your problem. The luteal phase needs to be at least 8 to 10 days for your body to be able to sustain a pregnancy. A normal luteal phase is 12 to 14 days. If the luteal phase is too short, the fertilized egg will not have enough time to implant in the uterus before the lining is shed during menstruation. When the fertility returns after a period of lactational amenorrhea, the luteal phase is sometimes short for the first few cycles. This problem usually clears up by itself with time. If you are not ovulating, really the only way to get your fertility to return is to decrease the amount of nursings. I would suggest decreasing slowly, so that yo
