Vitex to bring on ovulation while breastfeeding.

[ThinkingofPink]

Glad to hear it worked for someone! I would love to hear more about your experience mommymachine. How much were you taking and how often? How often were you still breastfeeding?

[atomic sagebrush]

Go back and look at what your cycle was befor you got pregnant and take it "AF-O" of that. cycles tend to come back in the same pattern as they were before you TTC.

I did have vitex work for me in that capacity, but over the course of time so few people have gotten good results with it, I am rarely using it much for this situation any more.

[atomic sagebrush]

Are you skinny? My doctor told me that if you have a low BMI while you are nursing, your fertility is delayed longer than someone who is overweight. She said that you body has to hold onto the fat reserves to breast feed and it signals your body not to be fertile. Not sure what atomic says about this but I'd love to know!

agree with this

[atomic sagebrush]

How many times a day were you still nursing when you took Vitex?


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I can't answer for MM but for me, I was 7 months past birth with DS 3 and nursing CONSTANTLY and only one AF which then vanished without a trace, took vitex for 3 months and got pg in the second month taking it, without getting aF first.

With next conencpiton, I waited for AF to return, took from AF-O for 6 month, then got pg with DD the month I dropped it.

[mommymachine]

Glad to hear it worked for someone! I would love to hear more about your experience mommymachine. How much were you taking and how often? How often were you still breastfeeding?

I was taking Nature's Way Vitex 400mg and I would take 3 pills a day. So 1200mg total per day. DS3 was 10.5 months when I conceived so he was still breastfeeding ALL THE TIME. Hope that helps.

[mommymachine]

How many times a day were you still nursing when you took Vitex?


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I nurse all my babies on demand. And he was still only 10.5 months, so I imagine it was pretty frequent still.

[ThinkingofPink]

Thank you for answering my questions! I guess I may just try it for a month or so and if it seems like I'm not ovulating I'll quit and just keep trying to night wean. He's still nursing quite often at almost a year so our ttc time may end up being pushed back who knows how long .

[atomic sagebrush]

Give it a try and if it's going to work, it will usually do so within 3 months. IF it doesn't work by that point it's not going to.

I really think that our experience has been the night weaning is WAY more effective than the vitex but vitex has seemed to help some people. Good luck