Breast feeding and weird periods

[Ithinkineedtogrowapair]

Not sure where to put this... Just wondered about your experience of post baby periods. Mine is nearly 17 months and am still breast feeding. Finally got my period back a few weeks ago and it seems to have come again 22ish days later.

Seems a little quick for me but guess its not that strange now I think about it.

What were your post breast feeding periods like?

I only had about 4 before I got pregnant again. I had the opposite issue to you though - mine were very far apart to start with. I kept records because we were ttc again.

I had my first post-baby period 13 months after, and 4 months after finishing bf. There was a 60 day gap, then a 45 day, then a couple of 35 day ones. The pattern, as you can see, was that they were getting closer together.

Currently 6 months into bf dd and have no intention of conceiving again, so I'm quite interested to see what happens this time. In fact, seeing as I went on the pill at 16 and got pregnant 2 months after coming off it, the next lot of periods I have will be the first proper lot I've ever really had.

I can't really speak from experience (I only had once cycle between DD and DS), but as far as I know, what you describe is very normal as ovulation often takes a few months to become regular again.

You may get more answers to this on the breast/bottlefeeding board... there are a lot of people on there who have been BFing many DCs for a long time!

Thanks!!!appreciate the help - just kind of annoying....