Who holds the MN ammenhorreic record?

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I shall start

4 years, 2 months, and counting

(ammenhorrea mean no AF in case anyone is wondering. I think AF is the word we use here? have alreasy offended someone today so sorry if that is twee . )

did seriously consider weaning at about 4 months due to similar issues HHAH. Fear of bedtimes put me off.

yes continous bf us impressive

was secretly glad when ds self weaned when i was pg with dd

It is unfair! I have been either pregnant or breastfeeding since 1998 and in each case periods came back nine months after each birth grr

self weaning would have been lovely - dd1 had dramatically diff ideas however .

Respect, pollyanna

i think you must get some sort of special award for effort

Okay, I can't resist. First pregnancy 1986. Last pg 2004. 9 babies + 8 m/cs + breastfeeding. I've calculated that altogether it adds up to about 13.5y without af

I think we've got the winner here!
Congratulations Juule!

Hooray, I've won at something (well until someone knocks me off my spot).
Yep, 9 children. House is stuffed to the gills at the moment with kids and hidden pressies.

5 children but one lot was twins. Eventhough I breastfed my periods always came back after about 6 months. I think birth spacing in Kenya was 4 years between each child because of breastfeeding but never understood why my periods would come back and others wouldn't. Perhaps it's also a matter of nutritioin. I think Victorian girls' periods often started at 15 - 17 and now it's much younger because we eat better food.

I've never been on the pill but presumably some mumnetters will be on a type of pill which stops all periods may be but in this competition that would be cheating...

Then I suppose we have all the anorexics my brother treats and those people who have a very early menopause and those who hardly ever have periods and have trouble getting pregnant. I suppose naturally we would never have periods - we'd just go from baby, feeding to baby to menopause.

No chance of winning this one, I know, but

From start of pregnancy with No 1 child, to end of lactational amenorrhea with no 2 (born 21 months after first) =35 months- no period between (yes, we were caught out )

Plus a further 9+11 months for child no 3 =20 months (bloody periods came back after 11 months despite 6+ feeds a day...)

Total for three kids=55 months.

(nearly forgot) + 4 months for 4th pregnancy that ended in miscarriage=59 months

(nearly forgot again) +39 months Mirena-induced amenorrhea= 98 months without a period in the last 14 years.

That's over 8 years in 14. Not bad. I'll e laughing on the other side of my face when my bones fall apart...