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Postnatal health

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Breastfeeding- periods

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Oct18mummy · 02/09/2019 21:28

Hi my baby is ten months old and I’m still breastfeeding. He is eating three meals a day so breastfeeding is lot lower than the beginning. When did your periods kick back in? Just wondering when I should expect it to start again, knowing my luck the first day I’m due back at work 🤣 thanks x

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Equimum · 02/09/2019 21:31

I think it’s very individual. With both of my children, my periods returned while They were still exclusively breastfed, and having multiple feeds through the night. One was four months and the other five months old. I felt very short-change day on that benefit of bf.

thisusernameun · 02/09/2019 21:34

My son is 18 months old, has been at nursery full time since 10 months old and still no periods. Stoll breastfeeding Through night. Getting a bit frustrated as would like to ttc but oh well

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Oct18mummy · 03/09/2019 20:05

Thanks both I guess it is really just down to each individual many thanks for replying x

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Nelly325 · 06/09/2019 21:02

I stopped breastfeeding exclusively at 2 months and stopped combination feeding at 5, period just came back now at 7.5 months :)

AnneLovesGilbert · 06/09/2019 21:05

I’m properly envious! Mine came back at 4 months despite EBF and regularly as clockwork since.

LittleTopic · 06/09/2019 21:12

I had to stop bf at 4 weeks due to medical issues with DD. Expressed until she was 3 months and my period came back 2 weeks after my milk supply disappeared

iloveewanthedreamsheep · 01/10/2019 10:46

I EBF and period didn’t come back until around 14-15 months I think. Hoping for the same this time around!

HerSymphonyAndSong · 01/10/2019 10:47

6 months ish, almost 2 weeks to the day after I introduced solids. Regular as before pregnancy from then on. I was so annoyed, I thought the pain of hourly feeds through the night might at least keep periods away but sadly not!

DCIRozHuntley · 01/10/2019 10:53

Mine haven't come back with any of my DC until at least 15 months, and once they've stopped having a feed between 2am and 5am. I assume this is because feeding between those times keeps prolactin levels high.

@thisusernameun I got pregnant within a couple of months of having periods three times, though waiting for periods is frustrating. Have you read Kellymom - transition to full fertility? Really interesting. It's more likely that periods that come back soon will be anovulatory, if that helps at all.

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