If you EBF, when did your period return?

[Sparrowlegs248]

DS is 5.5months and is ebf. He is reaady to start trying fod and I am wondering; as i plan to carry on bf, when my period will return?

I know no one can tell me but just wonderingvwhat others experienced were.

I need to be down to morning and evening feeds by 9 months as wil be working 3 days a week.

About 14 months

11 months both times. We were down to 2-3 feeds by that point!

About 13 months but he was a real booby baby so didn't cut down on feeds.

I was gutted they came back

About six weeks after giving birth. :(
BF with premenstrual boobs was at times excruciating.

Not until they were 2yo. But I did EBF twins for 18 months and was underweight at the time which probably delayed things.

Mine's just come back, baby is 10 months.

After 7 months, both babies.

6 weeks

Ooh this thread makes me jealous! At least I'm not completely alone. Mine came back at 16 weeks, which I wouldn't have minded so much were it not for the fact that a) she was still up and feeding every hour some nights; and b) my post-birth lochia didn't completely end til 13 weeks postpartum so I had a grand total of 3 fucking weeks I wasn't bleeding/spotting in the whole first 4 months. Gutted!

Similar to fourfor, lochia stopped at 5 weeks, periods came back at 8 weeks, so only had 3 weeks in between. DD was totally EBF too.

4 months. Ds2 conceived soon after.

I had stopped night feeding by then but fed unlimited during the day

18 months -was marvellous!

Wow thanks for all the responses! As i thought, its incredibly varied.

Consider myself lucky to have made it this far without then.

And wondering how on earth some of you had dropped night feeds or were down to one by 6 months. DS feeds constantly overnight. Sometimes starting as way as 11pm, sometimes 1am. After that i maybe get 30 minutes between feeds. (co sleeping.....)

13 months, 12 hours between morning - bedtime feed.

About 2 years, give or take, with all three of mine. I saw it as my reward for them not sleeping through the night :)

I stopped BF at 8 months. A returned at 11 months

18 months and 20 months I think.

I bf my youngest til he was 2.5 and I think my periods returned when he was about 9 months old.

Between 13 months and almost 2 yrs for 4x DCs. It came back sooner with the DCs who cut down sooner (largely due to me working).

I was wondering the same thing. My baby is 18 weeks and today I woke up to find my period, much to my astonishment and confusion. She's still feeding very regularly. Can't seem to find reliable info online about what's "normal" but I see from this thread it varies enormously!

Mine returned last weekend at 4.5 months :(

4 weeks after the initial post partum bleed.

I EBF both DCs until 6 months and then continued to BF until they were nearly 2 years old. My periods returned both times when the DCs were 4 months old.

Babies are all different, notta - many drop night feeds by 6 months but by no means all! I'm guessing your baby probably does other things really well that my DD doesn't She won't nap in the day for longer than 30 minutes, for example!