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Just wondering if you can get pregnant whilst breastfeeding, how high or low are the chances? And does baby’s age matter? My baby is nearly 6 months old

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Hey! 👋🏻 Yes you can still get pregnant whilst breastfeeding. If you're not ready for round two i would highly recommend contraception! Chances are lower than usual but there's still that little chance ☺️

Yes you definitely can, my period returned exactly 4 weeks after my baby was born despite her being exclusively breastfed! Not that I would have done, but if I had had sex 2 weeks after birth, I could have been welcoming another baby exactly 9 months later !

I wouldn't personally recommend medical contraception especially pp as your body is trying to heal and regulate hormones!! I came off all contraception several years ago due to the hell it caused my body and hormones. There are natural partial contraceptives that you can take and you can be mindful about when you are having sex and to not stay led down etc afterwards to avoid pregnancy. You can get pregnant immediately after birth regardless as to whether or not you're bf. Although it is meant to reduce the chances it is still a high possibility. It can be hard when you dont have your regular periods to track but try and monitor it by your phases and that should help you to distinguish ovulation periods x

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If you were walking on an isolated cycle path with no one else on it aside from a strange looking man, would you intervene if he was asking for help with an insect in his eye?

This happened to me the other day and it creeped me out, and I’m wondering if I was being over the top.

The man was hovering around a bike attending to it, so I assumed he had a bike problem, but then as soon as he saw me, he started walking towards me, and said he had an emergency and he needed me to look in his eye. I asked why and he said because an insect flew into it. His eye looked normal and he wasn’t squinting or anything like that, but kept saying it was an emergency and he needed me to look.

I said no and told him to asked a man. I said I didn’t feel safe on my own on the isolated path coming any closer to him. He stormed off angry and then kept turning around and just standing there looking back at me, which scared me even more.

Was I being over the top or unreasonably? Was I an arsehole for not helping him? Do you believe his story about his eye? This is now the fourth man who has approached me in this area with either a strange request or who has threatened me, so admittedly I’m on high alert at this point.

In my head I was thinking the minute I come close to this man, he’s going to do something to me because why can he just poke the insect out himself instead of asking a lone woman on a cycle path to inspect his eye?

Breastfeeding help

I'm struggling to understand how people do this 😭

I'm on day 3 and my nipples feel like they've been cut with glass. I cannot get baby to latch well. I've had advice from midwives and they've helped me multiple times now, and I always manage when they help, but as soon as I'm left to do it myself I just cannot get baby to latch deep enough and its so painful.

I tried expressing so I could still have milk to give baby but I'm not making enough milk yet for that to even be worth it tbh.

She wants to feed every 5 minutes, I can't keep up. My breasts feel empty and soft and she still wants to feed. I know this is because she's making my supply increase but it's constant. I can't do anything else, i can't put her down for anything, not even to go pee.

I have a toddler too and I'm just feeling tremendous amounts of guilt for not being able to even have 5 minutes to cuddle him 😔

How does this get better??? Please help!