To ask when your periods returned after having a baby while breastfeeding?

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Dc is coming up 12 months now, and still no sign of my periods returning. I don't think it took this long with my other dc.

When did you all get your periods back of you were still breastfeeding?

About a month after I stopped expressing so 4 months pp.

18 months for me. It's a great perk of cosleeping and still doing night feeds!

I didn’t have a period between DC1 and DC2, 2.2 year age gap. I suppose it would have been 18 months but obviously the first ovulation I became pregnant. BF DC1 until around 21 months.

Had 1 period between DC2 and becoming pregnant with DC3 when DC2 was 21 months. BF DC2 till about 23 months.

Periods came back when DC3 had just turned 2 and she stopped BF a couple of months later. All 3 were only really having a BF before bed from about 18 months. And with all 3 there was no sign that my periods were returning, each time they just started.

My periods changed not long after this from 5 days to 2 days.

Irritatingly bloody early. I’m still ebf my ten month old daughter, and I think they reared their ugly bloody hydra heads, heavy as ever, at about three or four months. Livid, I was.

About 14 or 15 months - I was still breastfeeding, but it was starting to tail off, only once or twice a day.

3 months despite exclusively bf (he’s never even so much as had a bottle of expressed milk). I really thought I’d have so much more time. I suspect it has to do with when they start going longer stretches at night. Ds is one of those mythical babies I never really believed existed who sleeps well (slept through pretty much every night from 10 weeks, can’t complain, I’ll take the periods in exchange for sleep). I think that’s unusually early though.

I must be extremely unlucky, mines just returned after only 5 weeks!

AF came back 6 weeks after DD's last breastfeed

Exactly 28 days after I gave birth to my DD and I was exclusively breastfeeding for 3 months straight.

10 weeks and he fed every hour and co slept on my boob but my friends came back 6 months after stopping (12 months post baby)

Lucky you! Mine came back 6 weeks after birth, if barely stopped bleeding from that and was furious. Still breastfeeding 2 years later and they are regular every month.

DC1- 18 months
DC2- 6 weeks
Both breastfed until 2 years old.

Six months with DS1 but breastfeed until 15 months

12 months with DD conceived DS2 the same month my period returned
DS 2 now 7 months and no sign of it although I’m still nursing DD too

First time was 2 weeks after she started having two feeds a day when she turned 1.

Second time was about 6 weeks after stopping completely at 10mo. So just before his 1st birthday.

This time I thought I had one at 4 weeks (mix fed to start with) but in hindsight I think it was just a temporary rush of lochia as I hadn't completely stopped bleeding yet. And I haven't had another one yet and she's 4mo.

15 months for dc1, then tandem fed with dc2 - periods returned at 16 months still tandem feeding.
Still waiting this time and dc3 is 20 months. But he feeds loads at night still.

21.5 months (fed to 27 months)

Around 9 months, cosleeping and feeding on demand/ doing night feeds.

At 10 weeks with dc 3. She was breastfed til 18 months and most definitely did not sleep at night too.

Mine came back after three months but they were erratic.

For the last 3 weeks I've been combi feeding (formula in the day and just BF at night) and have just had my first🤦🏼‍♀️

Period at 18 months post partum but fed until 'baby' was 2y 8m

Currently expressing for my tube fed baby and no period yet (4.5m post partum)

My periods came back 6 weeks PP. I was still breastfeeding at 16 months.

Mine returned with 6 weeks every time, with dd1 they returned in 2 weeks as I’d had 2 by my 6 week check

Once baby starts going 8 hrs between feeds. Triggers ovulation.

I breastfed each for a year until they were down to just one feed in 24 hours. Periods only returned one month after I completely stopped feeding.