BCP to regulate hormones?

My GP wanted to put me on the BCP in order for me to start menstruating again after the birth of my son (I was wanting to TTC and hadn't started ovulating again 20 months after his birth).

I refused. To me it does not make sense at all - I explained that I wanted to ovulate, not just have a bleed.

I also don't think that it makes sense to add hormones to your body after a miscarriage.

Before I started TTC with DS, I went off the pill and didn't have a period for a year. The GP couldn't find anything wrong, so I went to see a Traditional Chinese Medicine Dr. She gave me a whole lot of strange smelly herbs to boil up and drink the liquid. I ovulated a few days later, and my periods were regular after that. I drunk the tea for about 2 weeks and it sorted my crazy hormones out. So I strongly recommend trying that.

I should add that I wanted to exhaust the more 'natural/alternative' therapies options first, before I resorted to putting artificial stuff into my system to help things along, and I'm really confident the acupuncture made the difference.

Hey thanks so much for responding! When I posted this I was feeling like I would be being deliberately obstructive and shortsighted to bcp as an option, but from the responses on here, I’m feeling a bit more reassured that my gut feelings aren’t entirely always offtrack!! Yeah if I wasn’t ttc, maybe I wouldn’t be as bothered, just seems like a waste of 3 months if it just buggers up hormones even more

The acupuncture/naturopath recommendation seems to be a common theme.
I did go for acupuncture in Jan til about May . . . I have been having bleeding through most of the luteal phase every cycle for over 2 years now, so I wanted acu to try and sort that . . . I noticed no change unfortunately. I was VERY open to acu working for me (did wonders for hayfever years back, so I’m convinced it works on whatever level) but it didn’t seem to. I stopped as at the time we were not actively ttc (waiting for gynae appt), and the acu lady was wanting to know what the gynae was going to discover (which turned out to be nothing conclusive) so I didn’t go back . . . got utd for this most recent mc then. And then retained product till this week . . . so hopefully that might be the end of the bleeding . . . hopefully
I’m not rolling in barrels of money, this might sound tightfisted, but I don’t want to chuck hundreds more dollars at something that doesn’t seem to be working, this is coming out of the money I put aside for baby things like cots etc. I know its hard to know until you do it.
I’m glad it worked for you, Hippy mama as I hear it does for lots of other people. I totally would want the natural route if poss, as I lean more towards finding out whats going on and sorting it, rather than suppressing symptoms with artificial chemicals.

I usually do have regular cycles, and my temps are biphasic, its just the luteal bleeding and recurrent mc I want to get a handle on.
Had a naturopath recommended to me some weeks back and following the nudge from these threads I’ve left a message to see if that might be a possibility. I will drink tea that tastes of sh*te for weeks on end if it means happy healthy cycles and fullterm healthy living babies