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Poll Results: When did your period return?

This is a multiple choice poll
  • 0% (0)
    Less than 1 month postpartum
  • 2% (4)
    1 month
  • 7% (11)
    2 months
  • 4% (7)
    3 months
  • 7% (10)
    4 months
  • 4% (6)
    5 months
  • 7% (11)
    6 months
  • 3% (5)
    7 months
  • 5% (8)
    8 months
  • 8% (12)
    9 months
  • 5% (8)
    10 months
  • 4% (6)
    11 months
  • 37% (53)
    12 months or more (please explain)
  • 0% (0)
    Exempt - Do not expect another period (please explain)
141 Total Votes  
post #21 of 52
12/4/09 at 5:23pm
never before 15 months, currently at 27 months since #5 was born.

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post #22 of 52
12/4/09 at 5:30pm
I guess technically it would be 12+ months, but only because I was pregnant before my EBF baby turned 5 months old and before I got a PP period. So I guess I ovulated around 4 months pp? My second time around (also EBF) I think that it was around 3 or 4 mos PP also, though I had an IUD with horrible side effects so it was hard for me to determine just what was what.

My kids were really great sleepers as newborns and gave me long stretches of sleep with cosleeping, so I don't know if it was that or it is just the way my body is wired.
post #23 of 52
12/4/09 at 5:34pm
by 5 months with all 3;
#1 had a pacifier, slept independently and I went back to work full-time at 12 weeks
#2 was/is a thumb sucker, co-slept and I went back to work full-time at 8 weeks
#3 ebf on demand, co-sleeping, no pacifiers, no bottles until I went back to work part-time at 6 months yada, yada, yada

actual fertility returns between 11-15 months
post #24 of 52
12/4/09 at 5:46pm
22 months for me!

We did ecological breastfeeding. My DD never had a bottle or a paci, we nursed lying down for naps and bedtime, co-slept and nursed on demand.

She did start solid foods at 6 months but never had a milk substitute until she was 12 months old.

And considering that I am a FT WOHM I am very happy that we were able to do it!
post #25 of 52
12/4/09 at 5:48pm
I had my first pp period at around 9 months, but then I didn't have another till 12 months. Since then they've been regular.
post #26 of 52
12/4/09 at 5:50pm
10 months for the first two (when they started solids)...

about 18 months for #3

With all three I exclusively breastfed, never gave a paci or bottle, co-slept etc..
post #27 of 52
12/4/09 at 6:12pm
I voted 2 months, though it was actually just over 6 weeks. This despite EBF with a babe who nursed for 45-60 minutes every 1.5/2 hours round the clock at the time.

So much for natural contraception!
post #28 of 52
12/4/09 at 6:17pm
Another "lucky" person who got AF back 6weeks PP despite round the clock EBF never more than 1 3hour gap in 24 hours... It's genetic i think, my mum had 3 boys within 22 months (no twins!) because they told her (and she believed TWICE) that if she EBF she wouldn't fall PG again...
post #29 of 52
12/4/09 at 6:23pm
I have two children and with both of them it came back at 8 months. The second time I was tandem nursing, so I guess I just can't go longer. What really sucked is that I didn't stop bleeding from the birth until my son was 3 months old so I only got 5 months off.
post #30 of 52
12/4/09 at 7:09pm
With DS1 it returned around 9 months... with DS2, I *swear* I had a period at exactly (to the day, nearly to the frigging hour!!) 8wks pp... but nothing since (DS2's now ~17 or so weeks). I don't *think* I'm pregnant (I keep forgetting to buy a test, and we've used protection 100% since Ds2 was born.... but I suppose anythings possible...), so I really don't know wtf is up... I only voted for Ds1
post #31 of 52
12/4/09 at 7:11pm
20 months, DD was nursing, but around that time it wasn't quite as frequent.
post #32 of 52
12/4/09 at 7:17pm
11mo, was still BFing...
post #33 of 52
12/4/09 at 7:26pm
DD1: 2 months, but I was EPing.

twins: That's complicated. I had some spotting around 4 months, for a day or two, when DS was getting formula supplements. I think my supply was low-- I was very sick with a bad flare of my ulcerative colitis. Then it went away. At ten months, DD2 learned to sleep all night, and I had a few random spotting episodes here and there, that never lasted more than a few hours. But AF didn't return for real until 16 months, when I weaned the twins to start immunosuppressant meds.
post #34 of 52
12/4/09 at 7:29pm
Five weeks... and I was excusively breastfeeding, of course, around the clock!
post #35 of 52
12/4/09 at 8:19pm
two years and two months. i was breastfeeding.
post #36 of 52
12/4/09 at 8:51pm
For me, it never returned a couple of months after I night weaned. That was 16 months for ds and age 3 for dd!
post #37 of 52
12/4/09 at 8:57pm
14 months, anovulatory until 17 months. DD nursing all night and several times a day.
post #38 of 52
12/4/09 at 9:00pm
19 months and counting, even with nightweaning (8hrs no nursing at night for a couple of months now)
post #39 of 52
12/4/09 at 9:00pm
5 months with an EBF baby nursing 'round the clock. I felt SO robbed.
post #40 of 52
12/4/09 at 9:54pm
i just got mine back 3 days ago and DD is 13.5 months.
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