bf-ing - when did you get your first period after birth?

[soandsosmum]

I'm exclusively bf and got AF after 4 months. Really didn't expect that til I stopped ebf!

Not had one yet - EBF twins to 6 months, still BF alongside food at 10.5 months. We're down to 3/4 feeds each now, but all during the night, which I think makes a difference.

I think it is completely normal for them to come back early, or stay away until you stop BFing.

18 months with DS1. Hoping for similar this time.

About 5 months, was still exclusively bf and during the night. DS is now 10mo and only feeds about 3/4 times a night day, but AF still going strong :( The idea that my body is prepared for another pregnancy is SCARY... I most certainly am NOT.

I got mine very soon too. Only about 3 months.

Early here too - with both ebf DDs got my period after 2-3 months

Five months....was still ebf

11 months with both of them - DC1 had slept through the night from 8 weeks, and was only having a couple of feeds a day. DC2 still feeding at night and a few times a day.

I ebf and had one 6 weeks later

9 months both times

1st time I ebf till 6 months but carried on with food till 9, got it at 6 wks, 2nd bf til 10 months got af back once then fell with no 3

19 months with DS1
15 months with DD1
14 months with DD2

10 months DS1

18 months DS2

I think the longer you keep up night feeds, the longer it suppresses the normal menstrual cycle?

9 months after giving birth. Stopped breastfeeding at 5 mths

Thanks ladies. Seems like there's wide variation. DD's been sleeping through for a month or so which sounds like a strong factor. Still, I think I'd rather have sleep and AF than neither :)

9 weeks with DS, 8 weeks with DD. In my case sleeping through had nothing to do with it, DS was still waking for a night feed at nearly a year!
PMT, disrupted sleep and mad new baby hormones are not a good combination, I can tell you...

nine or ten months.

2 years
Friend who EBF got hers after 6 weeks :(
She didn't use dummies, feed through the night etc

15-18 months each time. Hurrah for BF!

10 months, just after I stopped breast feeding.

My sister's ebf her dd and got her first mini period after 10 months

4 sodding weeks. (Not exclusive, but a lot) No, it was not mini or light, it was a normal one

18 months with dd
not back yet with ds (19 months)

13 months...still waiting. Practice 'ecological' BF .