Breastfeeding mums, when did your period come back?

[Tryingandhoping2020]

Just curious to see what the norm is, my 11wo daughter is sleeping longer stretches now so I’m wondering if it might be coming back soon…

8 months.

8 months. But I was combi-feeding.

I stopped just before my child turned two. My period returned about four months after that. So more than three years without a period.
Interestingly, since they returned my cycle is shorter. It used to be every 28 days and is now every 24. It also took two years for my feet to return to their pre-birth size.

DS fed until 2 1/2 years and stopped a couple of months ago….. still not had one!

8months I had a full bleed so I had a coil fitted. I’ve been spitting ever since and she’s 13mo.

18 months

16 months.

It depends how offen they nurse.

Both times within two weeks of weaning.

9 months for my first, 14 months for my second.

Got my period the day of my last bf with my first child, at 13 months, having gone down to mornings and evenings a few weeks before. DC2 is 13 months now and still bf loads and no sign of it.

6 months almost on the dot. I had just started weaning DS which must have triggered it but he was still drinking loads of milk.

@hemhem

Took more than 2 years for me with both DC. Didn't miss it!

Same here, but I fed until 2 years for each of the DC

First about 5/6 months when I moved to pretty much formula. Second about the same despite ebf until about 8 months. 3rd - I had vv mild periods from the month after birth despite no formula at all!! He did sleep amazingly as a newborn and would do 5/6/7 even 8 hour stretches at night so I wonder if that kick started them. Now he’s 6 month, and I wish he’d sleep that long! And I have proper full on periods along with all the night waking too now!
I read they tend to come back when night feeding decreases.

Around 15-18 months

I'm on 16 months and counting...

My baby still BFs at least 4-5 times a night which I guess is why! Every now and then I think I get a phantom twinge in the womb area and I'm convinced it's going to be pre menstrual cramps but it never is, so far

4 months

18 months both times.

Not until I had stopped feeding entirely (around 12 months each time) Even when we had dropped right down to one feed just before bed, it stayed away.

(I also managed to fall pregnant again just one month after my first period with DC1)

6 months post partum

I had a period about 6 weeks after birth then nothing for 10 months then it came back with a vengeance. Was in bed for 3 days! Following month it settled back to a more normal pattern.

I breastfed my two round the clock and they were waking hourly in the night as newborns but my period still came back at 6 weeks after birth both times! I felt very cheated!

First I had 1 very short period at 6 months and then nothing, then somehow managed to get pregnant when she was 9 months old without a period (or trying!). Second I had a short period at 9 months but they weren't back properly until 12 months. I'm now on 9 months with my third and no signs yet. I breastfeed and did the same with the other 2 (for 14 months and 2.5 years), none of them ever slept through still breastfeeding.

DD - 4 months. DS -10 months.

9 months here. Was feeding all day and up every 1-2 hours at night still!

Straight away with first, 8 months with second. So variable!