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Ok I’m good with that. As long as luteal phase isn’t too short I’m not too worried about continuing on like we have been I just got worried about being able to sustain a pregnancy with lower progesterone. I’ve had lots of changes in my period since swaying, shorter period, etc.
Weirdly, when your LP gets short like that it's actually not progesterone that's making it short. About 7 days past ovulation, the corpus luteum starts to break down (and will continue to do so unless a newly developing pregnancy signals it to keep making progesterone) and so your body releases a surge of estrogen that sustains the lining a little longer to give a new pregnancy a chance to burrow in and send that signal so the CL remains and keeps making progesterone. So if you're not eating enough fat, that surge in estrogen doesn't happen correctly and the lining starts to come off before a new pregnancy can send that signal to the CL and your period comes early. So it's not just progesterone the way people think of it and so we need to be absolutely sure youre getting the raw materials we need to keep things working as they should. :)
Makes sense. Thank you for explaining it. So would eating more fat be the fix? I feel like I eat lots of veggies, and some fruit almost daily and the rest of my calorie intake is made up from carbs, rice, etc. Maybe just not enough fat with exercise and breastfeeding. My baby is 1 but not showing any signs of weaning and still nurses around 4-5x a day.
Yes, you need more fat. Full fat dairy 1 serv a day, 4-6 eggs a week, 1 serv of salmon/red meat, but beyond that you NEED 50-60 g fat a day in total when exercising and breastfeeding. If you're not eating fat, that will make your LP short and your O delayed. Your body can make do for a while with your stores of body fat but it will start shortening LP/delaying O at some point.
Ok adding in a few of those things. But adding those wouldn’t I be well over 50-60 goal?
Nope. 1 serv. full fat dairy is 6-8 g fat depending on what you're having (and I think butter is 11 g but don't quote me on that one) an egg has 5 g fat and a serving of salmon (that was supposed to be per week, not per day, messed up writing my previous post) about 7 g fat. You can have the eggs on different days than the salmon. Red meat depends on the cut but you can find some that are super lean, but you'd want a little fat on it and so that generally comes out to 5-13 g fat depending on the cut.