bf-ing - when did you get your first period after birth?

[soandsosmum]

I'm exclusively bf and got AF after 4 months. Really didn't expect that til I stopped ebf!

[HappyAsASandboy]

Not had one yet - EBF twins to 6 months, still BF alongside food at 10.5 months. We're down to 3/4 feeds each now, but all during the night, which I think makes a difference.

I think it is completely normal for them to come back early, or stay away until you stop BFing.

[juneau]

18 months with DS1. Hoping for similar this time.

[TittyBojangles]

About 5 months, was still exclusively bf and during the night. DS is now 10mo and only feeds about 3/4 times a night day, but AF still going strong :( The idea that my body is prepared for another pregnancy is SCARY... I most certainly am NOT.

[Sandalwood]

I got mine very soon too. Only about 3 months.

[ginmakesitallok]

Early here too - with both ebf DDs got my period after 2-3 months

[Risette]

Five months....was still ebf

[DaisyheadMayzie]

11 months with both of them - DC1 had slept through the night from 8 weeks, and was only having a couple of feeds a day. DC2 still feeding at night and a few times a day.

[MissTinaTeaspoon]

I ebf and had one 6 weeks later

[SpangledPandemonium]

9 months both times

[Boosaphena]

1st time I ebf till 6 months but carried on with food till 9, got it at 6 wks, 2nd bf til 10 months got af back once then fell with no 3

[NotJustKangaskhan]

19 months with DS1
15 months with DD1
14 months with DD2

[Highlander]

10 months DS1

18 months DS2

I think the longer you keep up night feeds, the longer it suppresses the normal menstrual cycle?

[emmyloo2]

9 months after giving birth. Stopped breastfeeding at 5 mths

[soandsosmum]

Thanks ladies. Seems like there's wide variation. DD's been sleeping through for a month or so which sounds like a strong factor. Still, I think I'd rather have sleep and AF than neither :)

[AnathemaDevice]

9 weeks with DS, 8 weeks with DD. In my case sleeping through had nothing to do with it, DS was still waking for a night feed at nearly a year!
PMT, disrupted sleep and mad new baby hormones are not a good combination, I can tell you...

[Georgimama]

nine or ten months.

[eaglewings]

2 years
Friend who EBF got hers after 6 weeks :(
She didn't use dummies, feed through the night etc

[Charleymouse]

15-18 months each time. Hurrah for BF!

[mamaesi]

10 months, just after I stopped breast feeding.

[saoirse86]

My sister's ebf her dd and got her first mini period after 10 months

[aliceliddell]

4 sodding weeks. (Not exclusive, but a lot) No, it was not mini or light, it was a normal one

[verylittlecarrot]

18 months with dd
not back yet with ds (19 months)

[QTPie]

10 months with my son. He dropped to 3 feeds a day at about 8 months (was on a lot of solids by then) and then we swapped one of those, for formula, at about 9.5 months (trying to slowly wean him off BFing), second feed swapped to formula at a little over 10 months, third and final feed swapped at 11 months.

4 months sounds early to get your period back, but different people react to the hormones differently.

[Zimm]

13 months...still waiting. Practice 'ecological' BF .