Does this count as a regular cycle?

[dreamer24]

Since having my youngest my cycles have become anywhere from 26 to 30 days in length. I always have a period, but that's the typical window for me. There is no pattern, one month can be 30 days and the next 26. I've been told by a reproductive health nurse that this counts as "regular", therefore I am not likely to be perimenopausal. However, this pattern has only been happening since I had my child (who is now 3). I was 36 when I had her (now 39). Prior to having my child my cycles were bang on 28 days, never any variation.

Do I have regular cycles? Or could I be peri at 39?

Sorry I know this isn't an AIBU, just posting for traffic. 😬

Sounds very normal. I don’t know the stats but a lot of women, maybe most, don’t have a 28 day cycle exactly. Peri will often see periods changing in flow rate, frequently becoming heavier but no fixed rules, everyone is different.

Sounds normal to me and almost exactly what happened to me post-children too.

Thank you both. I suppose I'm just concerned it was a sign of early menopause at 39, which feels a bit early?

If you Google this you’ll find that remarkably few women have exact 28 day cycles, something around 12-15%.

Absolutely normal.

Only a 4 day variation - nothing to worry about. I would call that pretty regular! I'm the opposite - varied massively before kids, then were much more regular afterwards. Just the way the pregnancy affects your body.

Certainly not a sign of menopause - unless you have a load of other symptoms.

Much more regular than my experience of perimenopause which was more in the nature of a range between 20 days and many months. My overriding memory is of constantly being caught short and dashing into chemists for protection because my period had started unexpectedly.

Anything in between 23 days and 35 days is normal. 28 days is just the average.

Some women have bang on the same number of days every month, others don't. Both are normal. It's standard for the pattern of periods to change after pregnancy.

You get a period every month, so that doesn't sound at all unusual or peri.

Precisely the same thing happened to me post kids. 10 years later I'm still not in peri

I would class those cycles as very regular.

Thanks all, that's reassuring. It has played on my mind for a while that something weird is going on with the variation, possibly perimenopause. But if it seems normal then I'll go with that. I'm guessing at 39 I'm a little on the younger side for peri?