Return of periods while breastfeeding

[elliott]

Hi folks
This is my first post, though I've been lurking for a few weeks.
My question is this: has anyone else experienced NO missed periods at all in spite of exclusively breastfeeding? After the birth of ds, I bled for 4weeks, then 2 weeks later I had my first period!! At that time was breastfeeding about 2 hourly day and night. My cycle pretty much established itself back to normal straight away.
I have never met anyone else this has happened to, all my friends had months and months without periods. I just wondered whether anyone else has experienced this.
DS is now 10 months - I b/fed exclusively for 16 weeks and stopped completely at 6 months. When I introduced solids (16 weeks) he underwent such a personality change that I now feel he may have been hungry much of the time before, and wonder whether my supply was always a bit marginal, and that the return of my periods is an indication of this (not to mention feeling somewhat cheated of one of the rewards of b/feeding!!). But that may be for another thread so I'll stop there.
Look forward to hearing from you

My periods have just returned - baby is 7 weeks old and exclusively breastfed. Lots of discussion on this thread as to why this happens - I have to say I think none of them are hard and fast rules. Ds is exclusively breastfed, never with a gap of more than 4 hours including at night, usually 3 hourly feedings. He is also a bit of a comfort suckler so spends hours suckling in the evenings. Each feed lasts 40 mins to an hour but this is certainly not a sign of bad supply for me - he is putting on lots of weight and rapidly moving up the centile charts. I am also building a stock of expressed milk in the freezer, expressing 2-3 times a day and can express up to 150mls at a sitting so lots of milk there! I am also not overweight as has been suggested as a factor. I can see no good reason for periods to have returned but clearly they have. I guess some of us are just a bit unlucky!