breastfeeders! how long before you got a period?

[pillsthrillsandbellyaches]

my dd is one year old next week and i still haven't had a period! and no, i'm definately not pregnant!

while this is great news for me, i am curious about others experience. with my first 2 kids, it was 10 months, and i kinda thought they'd have turned up by now!

anybody had a similar situation?

I had my first period when DD was 8 months even though I'm still feeding her at 13 months. Everyone's different I suppose. I wouldnt worry about it sometimes you dont get a period until you stop nursing.

bf for 11 months first period after 8 weeks.

Can I hijack and ask how long / if your periods settled back into a reliable pattern?

9 months with dd, when she started sometimes sleeping through the night.

DD 9 weeks (she started sleeping for an eight hour stretch at 6 weeks)

DS2 2 weeks ago at 17 weeks and he is still feeding three times a night . It was pretty light though.

About 7.5mo when he was sleeping about 8 hours at night and dropped the lunchtime feed so was on 4 feeds a day in total.

4 months and dd was still feeding every 2hrs day and night.

Heavier than before.

Wasn't actually fertile though. Took about 7 months for my luteal phase to lengthen to anything near fertile. I am still breastfeeding her at 22 months.

sorry to Hijack - ShowofHands - how did you work out how long your luteal phase was?

1 year 9 days

and

17 months

6 weeks with DS...still waiting with DD (6.5 months). Strange as they both fed to a similar frequency (very frequently!)

noolia - in answer to your hijack, my periods settled down almost straight away to being regular. they are heavier and longer than before though, and i have worse PMT (but then i was one of those people who got away with a 2 day, no fuss period for the best part of 20 years!)

BF both DD's, got pregnant when DD1 was 11 months old with no period in between, then DD2 was 10 months when they started again so I went over 3 years with no period, was bliss!

Always about a month after I completely stopped feeding them (3 DCs). They have got progressively heavier each time though (periods not dcs!).

ByThePower, sorry, dinner, bath, bed, 300 bedtime stories later...

I know when I ovulate, always have very clear signs, can even tell you which side. I charted for a while when ttc dd and this confirmed what I already knew about my cycle. When my periods returned I was ovulating and then period was 4/5 days later. So a pretty short lp! I ovulated earlier and earlier as the months went on and now have a consistent 13 days lp.

9 months - was not happy to see it back! I've had three now and they are at pretty much 28 day intervals, and I seem to be ovulating (eggwhite mucus at about the right time) although I think my luteal phase is a bit shorter than it was, but I'm still bf and it'll probably settle down when we stop. Whenever that will be!

Periods are light and painfree, a welcome change if I had to have them back at all!

9 months with DD2 and seem to be regular 28 day cycle, but only 2 so far.

Can't remember with DD1 but seem to think it was a lot sooner.

This would support the night-feed theory as DD1 slept through very early . DD2, totally different and only occasionally sleeping through at 10 months!

DD1 - 4 weeks after post birth bleeding stopped so when she was 8 weeks

DD2 - 11 months

DD3 - 8 months and still no sign

This is due to DD1 being the only one who has slept through the night from 6 weeks and is not up feeding all night.

13 months for both children, so you're not alone!

my period returned exactly 4wks (to the day) after my last breast feed, with each of them (5 DC's).

and I fed each of them for differing times

with dd it was about 12months in but with ds 6 weeks after he was born ven though he was exclusively breastfed at at nearly one still doesnt sleep through

9 months
still feeding at 18