Periods after breastfeeding.

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How long did it take for your periods to return after you stopped breastfeeding?

I exclusively breastfed for 6 months, fed twice daily for a month after that but haven't fed for approx 5 weeks now but they've not yet returned.

Mine returned at 8 mo and I'm still bf at 14 mo. Every one is different.

DC1 - periods at 6 months, bf until 9mo.
DC2 - bf until 15 mo, periods at 18 mo.

I've been feeding for 7 months and no sign of a period x

I’m on month ten breastfeeding, still not had a period! I’m absolutely dreading the first one 🙈 Bet it’ll be on my first day back at work lol.

DC 1 & 2 - as soon as I'd been back at work for a while, so there was a decent break in feeding. About 14 months.

Dc3 - haven't gone back to work and they returned at 25 months when he stopped night feeding so often.

I've heard it depends more on if you get a break from feeding. Mine have all fed day and night every 2 hours or so regardless of solids so it looks either a return to work, or sleeping through more, for them to return.

Sorry missed a vital bit of information! - the return was about 2 months after the break started - so 2 months after starting work, or sleeping more.

I would give it a bit longer OP - you will probably get it back in the next few weeks.

15 months first time, 24 months second time! Still breastfeeding when they returned.

13 months in and still no period, stopped feeding 1 month ago. But I hadn't had a period for over 12 months before I was pregnant so I don't think that's of much help. They were looking into why I wasn't having periods when they told me I was 15wks pregnant.

Dc1 came back when she was 1yr and 2 weeks old. At 1yr old I cut down to two feeds a day, 12 hours apart, and always assumed it was that.

Dc2 I stopped feeding at 10mo, my periods returned about 4/5 weeks later.

DC3 I am still feeding at 7mo and no period yet, although I do get that draggy/crampy pre-period feeling every 4 weeks since she was born. Weird.

BF for 8 months. AF returned (with avengance) 3 months later

I BF both for a year and had to stop BFing completely before my periods came back. It probably took around 5-6 weeks from stopping with each. With my second I then bled for around 9 days

Thanks, looks like they'll hopefully return in the next few weeks. I want to starting thinking about TTC soon so hope they won't be much longer.

Still breastfeeding but rhey bugger came back after 6 months!

I exclusively bf from the get go. At 7 weeks my period returned. I was not fucking happy 😂😂😂 I'd been getting frustrated and wanting to have sex... and was looking forward to the no contraception option... bastard body 😂

I still bf now at 14mo.

Stopped at 7 months. Was down to 2 bf a day at that point and period came about 3 days later!!!

@Plinkplink

Can still get pregnant even when BF and no periods so not sure what you thought was a no contraception option?!?!??

My periods came back at around 10 weeks. EBF to 10.5 months but DS started sleeping through the night at 6 weeks old (I know, very lucky!) so I think that's why they returned so soon.

@arbrighton

Link to NHS website. Scroll down to Contraception and Breastfeeding:
www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/sex-contraception-after-birth/

FYI: No contraception method is 100% proof.

I said you can still. I am fully aware. It was you talking about a no contraception option that I was querying. SOrry, I was unclear.

Fully exclusively breastfed all three of mine until they were 2 and 3 (and stil bfing one) and I got mine at three months old every time

You’re all lucky arses.