Breastfeeding and your period

[onthefly]

So, we stopped night feeds not long ago and I just got my first period today. bummer. It took a couple of months last time (from night weaning). Anyway, she's still waking up - if I were to restart night feeds, would my period go away again? Has anyone tried that?

[blessedatlast]

Oh bummer! So glad i don't have mine back yet.. I heard at the ABA the other day that if your baby cuts night feeds, is over 6 months and your period still doesn't return, there's a chance there's something else going on, so that's probably why I haven't got mine back....?? I don't have an answer to your question, but I doubt they would go away again..

[Liz]

If she's still waking up, you can always try it! Would be interested to see if they go away again.

As for me, I get mine back early regardless of nightfeeds LOL. Around 3 1/2 months for us, and yet night feeds are still going at nearly 15 months.

[Charlotte91]

DS is 9 weeks and I'm spotting and crampy.
I bled for 7 weeks PP.

But, he feeds every 2ish hours during the day, but sleeps (usually) around 7 hours overnight.

[onthefly]

How longs it been since night feeds BAL? Sometimes it takes several months for them to kick in.

I am fortunate that the feeding has a payoff in long periods of amenorrhoea (i should learn how to spell that).

I'm reluctant to restart without a reasonable hope that it'd work.... will have to look around

[Arcadia]

Oh I'm not sure. ds is almost 18 months and still feeds 3times a night. I haven't had any sign of fertility yet, but I am about to night wean, so I will be watching carefully.

I wouldn't start feeding overnight again if I'd night weaned, but then I've never had a period post kids (not since march 2008 anyway...I conceived ds without bleeding first).

[Lily Dust]

Yep, I gave that try. I was one of those unlucky ones to get my period back at about 3 months. I tried feeding more regularly (despite her not being keen) at 2 months because I started spotting, it didnt stop AF returning but it did hold it off an extra month.

[Amity]

I didn't get my period after Ds1 until I'd weaned him completely, even though he'd stopped night feeds some months before.

With DS2 I had the implanon in at my 6 week checkup and didn't have a period until I had it out when he was 6.5 years old.