that recipe sounds good except I'd try to figure out a way to make it with steel-cut oats, they're so much tastier and more nutritious. I did make some cookies with them once, used leftover cooked oats....
I think that that recipe would work with cooked(and cooled) steel-cut oats:) I know, I'm a nag. STEEL-CUT! Steel-CUT!
as far as the spotting is concerned, all sorts of menstrual irregularities have been reported here. As far as I can remember, they all normalized. I stopped bleeding altogether for 7 months.