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TTC while breastfeeding

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TunaJacket · 17/06/2023 20:42

I have a 13 month old that I still bf. He probably feeds 3 times a day ish and then multiple times throughout the night, however I am now back at work 3 days a week and on these days he goes probably 10 hours during the day without a feed.

I don't want to stop bf but my period hasn't returned yet. I'm interested in other people's experiences of when their period came back and if there was anything I could do to help it along without having to stop?

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Pandax3 · 17/06/2023 21:05

After my DS1, my periods didn't return until just before he turned 2. I was still breastfeeding regularly day and night. When they did come back, my cycles were very erratic until I stopped feeding during the night, and then I conceived DS2.

With DS2, I stopped feeding a night when he was around 19 months (kept feeding to sleep and occasionally through the day) and my periods returned the following month.

DD1 is 18 months and no sign of them yet!

I think it's quite individual, but for me stopping feeding at night was the main thing.

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