Hi Lady! A whole variety of factors play into when your period comes back after baby. But once it does, there are several patterns those first postpartum cycles tend to follow ***if you are breastfeeding and baby latches (as opposed to exclusively or regularly pumping or exclusively formula feeding) in terms of cycle length, follicular phase length (the part of your cycle before your first ovulation) and luteal phase length (the part of your cycle after ovulation and before your next period starts). Here's what to expect in those first few cycles after you were expecting. ;)

https://naturalwomanhood.org/find-a-fam-instructor/ To find an instructor in an evidence-based fertility awareness method/natural family planning.

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Hey Lady! Here's my review of the Mira monitor for the Marquette Method of natural family planning (NFP)/fertility awareness (FAM). I've used it for 5ish months during this postpartum, and during that time my fertility returned. If you're considering switching to Mira from Clearblue or another method, or tracking your cycle for the first time with an NFP method, here's what you need to know about how Clearblue differs from Mira (though both are options to track LH and estrogen as part of the Marquette Method, Mira is still considered experimental because effectiveness research is ongoing), what surprised me about different lab values from one wand type to the next (the Ultra and Max values matched for estrogen and LH but the Plus wand estrogen readings were much lower, and what's been most helpful (confidently closing out the fertile window).

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Hi Lady! Today, Let's break down a new deep dive from ParentData founder + Harvard-trained economist + best-selling author Emily Oster on why the CDC's recommendations for breastmilk storage are overly cautious.

Specifically:

-how long is it safe to keep freshly pumped milk on the counter and in the fridge?

-What about milk that was previously frozen and then thawed?

-Can you add freshly pumped milk to a bag/bottle/pitcher of cold milk from the fridge?

-And just how long do you have to use up that bottle baby started but didn't finish in one feeding?

For more reading: Emily's original article at ParentData (behind a paywall but viewable with free 7-day trial) https://parentdata.org/babies/breast-milk-storage/. My writeup (no paywall!) about it for Live Action. https://www.liveaction.org/news/parenting-expert-breast-milk-research-easier-parents

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