Breast feeding mums

[Dorisday13]

When did you get your period back?? Just curious really, nearly 6months and no sigh...Tia x

Were you able to predict it based on how much your babies were feeding from you?

In both cases, Doris, it coincided with longer (8h+) stretches without night feeds.

DD is nearly 6 months and still no sign here as yet!

Sorry to sound dense but, is it possible to conceive before your period has started again? I'm guessing yes, but not sure.

Yes, PurpleBlossom, because you will likely ovulate around two weeks before your first period.

That said, a lot of bf mothers find their cycles are often anovulatory at first.

18 months here.

Purple yes definitely, my friend did :)

13 months but I had to stop feeding. I am hoping the same holds for this baby.

6 months and Ds was ebf and feeding loads at night

6 months, starte weaning at 5.

about 11 months - he was still feeding plenty (incl at night) but eating lots of solids too

Less than 6 months - but I suspect that was because he was sleeping through from so early (2 weeks! )

7 months. Started with a vengeance, nothing gradual here. We were breastfeeding only, about 4/5 a day I think (plus some solids from just before 6 months).

Only had 2 periods and pregnant again, hooray! (and still feeding no probs 4 months in happily)

9 months and DD still feeds loads night and day...

alternative answer: precisely 2 days after I'd booked an overdue smear test! (practice nurse had told me to wait until my periods came back but after 2 reminder letters I thought I'd just go anyway). Sod's law!

2 years. Bliss.

9 bloody weeks!!

DD2 was EBF and was/still is feeding every 2-3 hours at night.

Mine are much worse now than they were pre DD2 (11 mo). I think it's my wombs last hurrah before the menopause

DC1 fed round the clock, at least 2 hourly, through the night etc and periods were back at 12 weeks.

DC2 slept through from tiny, big gaps between feeds, periods back at 12 months.

Average is 14 months iirc.

When DS was exactly 6mo!