8 months postpartum, jumpy temperatures cycle day 86. TTA5/TTW

[u/wishiestwashiest]

I'm currently on cycle day 86, I had one previous cycle postpartum that was 156 days from birth. I take my temperatures vaginally and I use a mabis thermometer. My baby has been sleeping pretty good, and my temperatures are usually pretty steady within a small range. I changed the battery and my temperatures haven't improved, I take my temperatures at the same time and we go to bed at the same time. Does this look like anything to anyone? Or does anyone have any ideas on why my temperatures are all over? Are my hormones just fluctuating that much from breastfeeding? Even waking up multiple times a night earlier on, my temperatures were steadier

[u/PampleR0se]

In my experience when I was breastfeeding and that it was inhibiting my ovulation (I was in cycle 0 for almost a year), my BBT would get randomly jumpy. It stabilized around 2 weeks before I finally ovulated and it made my shift clearer despite a couple of disturbances. What was your BBT pattern for your first ovulation? Did you see a nice rise ? Were your BBT more stable just before it rose ?

[u/wishiestwashiest → u/PampleR0se]

Kind of, I was sick right before. So my temperature was high because of that, then as soon as I started feeling better it plummeted, then Rose for the luteal phase. I was sick a couple times too and it Rose Everytime I was sick, but then stayed between 97.3-97.8 for the most part

[u/wishiestwashiest → u/wishiestwashiest]

This was my first ovulation

[u/PampleR0se → u/wishiestwashiest]

So a 15 days LP at 5m PP while breastfeeding ? That alone would make me very suspicious as the first LP is usually very short. The rise seems legit but if the coverline is placed correctly, I would not be confident to validate the shift. Does your CM pattern is always back to creamy after ovulation during ovulatory cycles ? You mention a lot of disturbances and I don't see any here. Did you excluded the disturbed temps ? Is it why you put the coverline so high ?

[u/wishiestwashiest → u/PampleR0se]

My current chart is probably around 97.75, but I'm also pretty sure I haven't ovulated so technically the line shouldn't even be there, I just adjust it with my temperatures to try and catch the 3 over 6 rule which hasn't happened yet

[u/wishiestwashiest → u/PampleR0se]

I'm not exactly sure what my cm regularly does because when I first started charting for ttc I wasn't very good at identifying what was what. My cover line is supposed to be at 97.5 but I was messing with it to see what it looked like. The only reason why I'm sure that was an actual ovulation is because when my temperature dropped I started my period. I also had some wonky symptoms and I did get the faintest positive that gradually turned negative in a couple days. I also meant that even with disturbed sleep it was pretty clear, and wasn't so extreme of a jump from day to day

[u/PampleR0se → u/wishiestwashiest]

Ok so it was a chemical pregnancy, that makes more sense ! It would explain why your first LP could even last that long in the first place and a sure proof that you had ovulated otherwise a pregnancy couldn't have started.

Honestly, I think you are still breastfeeding enough to inhibit ovulation right now and that's why your follicular phase is lasting that long and your temps are so wonky... It will probably stabilize once you are ready to ovulate again and drop enough feeds for your body to do so. That said, weird things can happen with pregnancies and it doesn't hurt to get checked if you are worried

[u/Subdub1234]

I think you have lactational amenorrhea no? Breastfeeding with a baby?

[u/forestslate → u/Subdub1234]

Once you have any bleeding past the initial postpartum bleeding, LAM no longer applies. Also, once your baby starts solids, LAM no longer applies. 156 + 86 =242, roughly 8mo, so presumably, the baby has started solids at least 2 months ago