Periods while breastfeeding

[Ozziehoffy]

I've just had my second one...so for me was around 12 months. I can tell you though that it's more intense than before and I hate it. I seem to have more pain and discomfort the day or 2 before than I did before becoming pg with Oskar. I'm glad though that I lasted that long without getting them Oh I had one day many months ago where I had the slightest amount of brownish discharge but that was it.

[Fire Fly]

My first was 18 months, my second was 9 months and the last is nearly 10 months and still a no show of AF. All have been fully breast fed, and DD#3 still is.

[mbear]

i havent had mine since May 2005 when we conceived DD#2. Pregnant for 9 months, then breastfed, then fell pregnant again, (without having a AF )in Dec 2006. Im still b/f DD#3 and havent seen AF....i doubt i will see her till after 12months....

[MantaRay]

For me it was 7 months with DS1 who was sleeping through the night, and 6 months for DS2 who was bfing in the night. Doh!!!

[FluffyLaRue]

My 3rd child was a boobie fanatic, and I didn't get a period for 2 years marvelous !
My 4th is still feeding now ( he's 2) and I got my period back when he was about 18 months old. I think for me the dropping of night feeds triggers my period to return ( I co-sleep, so most nights there's night boobies )

[Smoke Jaguar]

Haven't had a period since September 2005 since conceiving DS, so we're at 22 and a half months and counting.

DS and I sleep in the same bed and it's a rare night that he won't feed once or twice in his sleep. He'll often 'miss a feed', though and still no AF. Especially during assignment times when I have to leave him with a relative, we'll go for a whole day without a feed, and twice a week he's in childcare on campus, but I don't feed him. I actually thought I'd get it back after two weekends ago when I was away from him and just pumped 3 times a day (he feeds so much more than that when we're together).

[Gigi]

i am struggling to remember, but i THINK AF returned about 8 months after bilby arrived.

at the time, we were breastfeeding multiple times day and night - and still are.

i had expected AF to stay away until breastfeeding stopped - there goes that myth! BUSTED!!!

to the person who's just gone on Implanon - i had that for six months, and i bled continually the whole time - that kind of side effect (and there were others too) was too much, so i had it taken out (surprisingly painless). Pity really, three years of NOT thinking about contraception seemed very attractive to me!!!