OK, in case anyone in the world is as curious as I am as to WHAT the heck happened in my reproductive system last month, I may have found some answers.
This study seems to indicated that a woman's FSH levels rise around 12 weeks postpartum (exactly, yep), but in lactating women (boobers, if you will) the LH levels stay low. You need both FSH and LH to release an egg and really get things going.
So a boober can't get knocked up unless her LH bucks the trend and surges up at the right time in the cycle too. So this explains why you can get a positive reading for FSH in your urine, and accompanying follicular-related mittelschmertz, but you didn't really ovulate. Because you're a boober.
Some Brazilian scientists experimented on prepubescent ponies regarding this effect -- the FSH running rampant but not causing ovulation.
Just so you know.
2 comments:
You should have some ovulation tests at the ready to detect your LH "surge" when you feel those phantom pains so your mind doesn't eff with you anymore. Also---you body needs a break. I don't know how mothers of "Irish twins" can do it. You think you're not getting any sleep now? Just wait. Christ Almighty...
Love,
the antithesis of Pollyanna...
You neigh-sayer! Anyway, I'm building in time for two more miscarriages before we might have a live birth, so I think we can safely rule out any Irish twin action.
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