When did you have your first period after your first child was born?

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Just that, and also, does it matter if you are breastfeeding or not?
thanks!

5 weeks after I stopped bfing when dd was getting on for 6 months old, although by that stage I was down to only 1 bf a day with the rest formula.I have a 33 day cycle now!

8-10 weeks I think.

lol susan was overweight after I had both of mine My gran reckons its to do with age but people might take offence at that too

whoops missed out 'I' was overweight not susan lol

I've just got mine today Ds is now 14 weeks and bottlefed. No pain at all either, which I'm suprised (and pleased) about as they used to be quite painful.

10 month old dd...........still waiting and yes i am breastfeeding exclusively

lol fio2 I was probably overweight when you had your 2 as well! story of my life

glad you've got a sense of humour susan

a few of you make a good point here: did your cycle change at all "after" pg? I have a wonderful skin since I got pg and used to get quite spotty around my period, so I am dreading loosing my newly found wonderful skin!

10 months with DS (BF) 3 months with DD1 (BF for 5 weeks) and 9 months with DD2 (BF)

Mieow, if you don't mind me asking, why did you bf dd1 for much shorter than the others?

4 weeks after both dd's were born, ie only missed periods when actually pg even though I b'fed both times. As for being overweight, whilst I must admit to being so second time, I was underweight first time, so I don't go with that theory.

9 months. Was bf full time for 4 months, then morning and night.

Mine started on day one back at work after both ds! Not great - believe me!!!!!

About 3 months after the birth I think. I felt cheated. I thought it would be gone forever as I was bf every 5 minutes....

9mths and still waiting - breastfeeding 3 times a day.

today
7.5 weeks. not breastfeeding.

now, where did I put those tampax almost a year ago?

Reading this thread, I was lucky. Mine didn't come back for 11 months (breastfed for 13 months). My second is now 2 months old and we haven't been using any contraception under the (mistaken???) impression that we are safe. Are we?

NO! You are not safe. I don't know the ins and outs but I am sure breastfeeding isn't a reliable source of contraception. Ask Jules Oliver (Jamies wife!). She was told it was and got pregnant when number 1 was 3 months old!!

Can I bump this up to ask a question?

For the ladies who have a had a period very soon after the birth, how do you know when its still Lochia or if its a period?

DD2 was born 4 weeks 2 days ago and I haven't had any bleeding since last Tuesday (6 days ago) but I'm bleeding today and have a backache. Is it likely to be my period?

After 8 months with dd1 and then 7 weeks after dd2! Knew it was a period because the post birth bleeding stopped at about 4 weeks. I breastfed exclusively with both so was quite shocked to have a period so soon with dd2

Pie, are you breastfeeding?

about every 2 freaking hours!!!

I b/f this much last time (b/f till DD1 was 1 year) and had my period when she was 3 months.

pie, I thought I'd got my period when at 6 weeks I had the return of some bleeding and some backache. But, I think it was just me doing too much - once that had stopped, it seemed to come back if I put dd in the sling and walked a lot.