So...period resumed today...

[Babina's Mommy]

I hope this is the right forum for this, I seem to have serious issues with thread placement....ha

I am having my 3rd period since Oct 3rd 2006. Wow!

I have been non-stop pregnant and/or breastfeeding since then. My son is almost 10 months old. With daughter, it came back at 12 months and I had two periods and got pregnant at just after 13 months. I know, crazy!

Anyone get a sense of sadness when the period returns? With my son here, I wonder if he's nursing enough? Did my period come back because he is nursing less? It just makes me a little sad.

Trying to decide...I don't want pills or an IUD...thought about a diaphram before but they are a PITA, right?

Trying to decide if I want to try charting to avoid. Part of me doesn't even want to avoid, but I know we should...

Anyone have any words of wisdom or anything? Did you feel like I do at all?

[K-Mom3]

No words of wisdom. I'm just in a similar place. I have had several periods now, but it does feel weird. I especially am frustrated with taking care of a baby and considering myself fertile at the same time. I used to take bcps but I can't handle the hormones anymore. I know a large percentage of women have difficulties with IUDs but I think I do want something longer term.....For right now we're just using barrier methods but those don't have a high enough success rate for me.

I don't think that you need to worry about your baby nursing enough.

[echospiritwarrior]

where does your husband stand on the topic?

When I had a bad IUD experience we agreed to remove it and CTA but that's only because we'd both be overjoyed with an oops, but we just don't feel okay planning ATM- just our situation.

I'd say it depends on your situation.

[Babina's Mommy]

Back before we were married and our first few years of marriage we used birth control pills. And I think a part of him would like me to be on them again for the ease of birth control, especially on his part, but he knows that I really would not like to be on a pill right. The idea of IUDs scare us both. He wants to wait before another comes along and is somewhat willing to try natural family planning, so I guess we'll give it a try.

I had this panicky feeling when I found that I had my period this morning, like I should go hurry and nurse the baby and nurse him as much as possible to keep the period and fertility away...and to me it felt like my baby is getting older...so that also made me sad. Ugh. I love LAM while it lasts....wish it lasted longer!

[GinnyMama]

Well, from personal experience, it doesn't have much to do with how much a child nurses sometimes. I got my period back at 10 weeks pp with my first, and with my second, at 5 weeks pp. I've been tandem nursing, and someone is on the boob pretty much all day long, and I STILL got AF back really early.

That being said, I understand where you're coming from. I have no idea what to do about birth control either. I'm not really comfortable with the idea of an IUD, although it would be nice to have such a long-term solution. I just can't imagine something that is DESIGNED to irritate my uterus. I'm very sensitive in that region.

[Babina's Mommy]

Well, horrible as it may seem, it makes me feel better that I'm not the only one and it's not based just on Griffy's nursing...wow, at 5 weeks both times I was still having post partum bleeding, and the second one was a C-section.

Did anyone notice that if you haven't had a period in a long time or something similar like me, was your first period back, really really bad? Today I've been in so much pain and also moody, tired, wanting sweets all day...I had a sundae, it was the best thing ever...also I have an extremely heavy flow. It leaked through my clothes while I was sleeping and all over. My underwear were almost completely red. And I'm trying to make my own pads so the whole thing is interesting....but I'm thinking, I cannot handle this bad of a period every month! I miss the easy "fake" periods from bc pills back in the day, but don't want pills...

By the way, Finnian is a really cute name!

[coldandsleepy]

It's not necessarily based on nursing at all! Mine came back at exactly 5 months postpartum and let me tell you, it's not from lack of nursing. My son doesn't eat solids yet and he still feeds every 2 hours all day long... and at least two (and usually three or four or five or...) times overnight.

I'm not sad so much as I am irritated and worried. We definitely DO want to have another baby in the future, but I'm not at all ready to get pregnant again yet.

[GinnyMama]

Originally Posted by Babina's Mommy

Well, horrible as it may seem, it makes me feel better that I'm not the only one and it's not based just on Griffy's nursing...wow, at 5 weeks both times I was still having post partum bleeding, and the second one was a C-section.

Did anyone notice that if you haven't had a period in a long time or something similar like me, was your first period back, really really bad? Today I've been in so much pain and also moody, tired, wanting sweets all day...I had a sundae, it was the best thing ever...also I have an extremely heavy flow. It leaked through my clothes while I was sleeping and all over. My underwear were almost completely red. And I'm trying to make my own pads so the whole thing is interesting....but I'm thinking, I cannot handle this bad of a period every month! I miss the easy "fake" periods from bc pills back in the day, but don't want pills...

By the way, Finnian is a really cute name!

Oh yes, I actually went to the hospital for my first period this time around. I thought surely I must be dying. My uterus ruptured while I was pushing my little boy out, and I thought for sure that I had split something open, because I was bleeding so much. The doctor put in a speculum, so she could press on my stomach and see if I would squirt any more blood, but there was so much blood that she couldn't even see in there! So she had to give up. But yeah, it ended up being a period. So bizarre! They're getting better as time goes on, so there's hope yet that your periods won't be scary and heavy as they are now.

And thank you so much about my little boy's name!

[akind1]

Just wanted to join you and say I've had my first real one (had episodes of spotting at 6 weeks and 10 weeks PP). In my case I think it is due to DS sttn (well, 7-9 hours at a stretch) for the most part. We cosleep - which I thought would help delay fertility - but i guess not

This is not that bad. just makes me realize I really did NOT miss this achey, crampy, just ucky feel of AF. I was on Depo (the shot) prior to DS and it took forever - well 2 years, it felt like forever - to fall with him. i want another baby within the next 2 years, so I dn't want to do anything long term, like an IUD, though I'd consider it. mostly I just plan to chart to avoid. no more hormones for me!

I don't really plan on actually charting though, just watching for fertile signs. I kind of knew this AF was coming, as I had tons of EWCM about 2 weeks ago. just mostly avoiding DTD during fertile time, or using a condom if we must. I was hoping to use LAM, but with such a good sleeper, I really doubted that would happen. oh well. (I can't complain about DS STTN can I? even when I wake up super engorged?)

i don't blame you for going to the hospital. after a rupture, I am sure I'd be concerned too.

[Babina's Mommy]

Wow, that's scary about the rupture! Thank goodness you're ok!

Yeah, my first PP period this time was just so horrible, I felt so sick from it...ugh...

I just did another thread in this same forum, I'm really having a hard time here but it's like a spinoff of this thread...