EBF periods returned?

[Foxmuffin]

My baby is 6 weeks and I’m EBF, I haven’t used any formula. Today I think my period has returned. I thought this was too early? Was anyone BFing and had their period so soon?

Yes... at 6 weeks mine did ☹️ I had two in one month then it went to monthly... and it's heavier than before I had the baby. So gutted.....

Health Visitor said it's uncommon but not unheard of...

How often does your baby feed? Mine was never really a cluster feeder, he just feeds very efficiently every 2/3 hours. Apparently this can play a part in early periods.

A bit later than you, around 13 weeks.

There have been a couple of threads on this in recent months & the only conclusion you can come to is that every woman is different & that there is a wide variation of normal. Anything from 6 weeks postpartum to when breastfeeding stops, which can be after two years or more.

Thank you both for your responses. Sorely disappointed I haven’t had a longer break from them!

It may not be your period. My post partum bleeding had stopped and then came back with my second child at 8 weeks. I was gutted but then disappeared again and didn't return until he was 10 months. In hindsight I think I had just been overdoing it and I wasn't quite healed yet.

@NanooCov
Thanks. My bleeding stopped at around two weeks. I did consider it might be.

I EBF both times and my periods came back at 6 weeks with my first and 8 weeks with my second.

I guess we are just unlucky! Sorry Op, it's a bit rubbish isn't it

Mine came back at 8 weeks with dc1 and 12 weeks with dc2 despite ebf both of them. Not impressed!

1st baby came back at exactly 28 days post birth(just as lochia had stopped), and clockwork every 28 days after that.

I ebf until solids at 6m, and carried on bf until 18m. No formula at all.

Mine came at 4 months regular as clockwork (and very heavy, painful and super emotional!) despite EBF a very hungry demanding baby...

Make sure you eat even more and take an iron supplement!

Thanks everyone. I think it is my period as it’s pretty heavy and fresh blood.

With a brand new hungry baby this seems a bit cruel

@Countryslices I have been starving! Never considered that might be why. I feel a bit better now. Thank you.

3 months, despite ebf, never even had a bottle of expressed milk. They’ve been every 28 days like clockwork since. They didn’t even come back that early with my first who was ff.