How long for period to come back after breastfeeding?

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Just that really.

Mine came back when I was still breastfeeding! No fair. After about 8 weeks pp 🙄

Some women get it back within a month others get it back after a year or even longer.

Mine came back after 6 months but then I was mixed feeding.

Either way, just make sure you use contraception if you feel frisky. When I was a kid my childminder had children born 11 months apart.

It depends a lot on frequency of feeding. My first was 13 months old before my first period, but she still fed very regularly day and night until after her birthday. My youngest is 3 months old and sleeps long stretches at night, and I am already having some tweaks and CM that seem to suggest ovulation is trying to get going again.

I breastfed until 16 and a half months and my period returned around the 7 month mark.

So for a good while I was having periods and breastfeeding!

4 months for me, despite feeding around the clock. Regular as anything since. But no pain! After decades of crippling agony, sore boobs, back ache, awful awful periods, they’re now about 4 days long and no pain. It’s changed my life.

Mine came back at 4 months pp, still EBF inc many, many night feeds. Gutted, had hoped to go straight to menopause!

First time, feeding twins, came back at 18 months while I was still feeding them.

Second time, feeding a single baby, came back at 23 months while I was still feeding him.

It really can vary!

Dd1 was by 6 months, I think it was 4 though. Dd2 is coming up to 10mo and it's not come back yet despite me going back to work and her generally feeding less than her sister ever did so I'm enjoying it whilst it lasts!

Hi OP,

I BF (not exclusively) for 2 months. First period was 2 months after that, so 4 months in total after LO was born. I don't think there's any hard and fast rule with when your periods kick back in, very much individual to each woman x

Oops I'm still breastfeeding! I meant come back whilst breastfeeding.