For those who have EBF 2+ kids, Did your cycle come back at the same time? - Page 2

[sewaneecook]

After #1, 4 months PP.

After #2, 10 weeks PP.

No pumping or supplementing either time!

[Lucy Alden]

#1, 10 months pp
#2, 4 months pp
#3, 11 months pp (tandem nursing)

I think af came back at 4 months with #2 because he was tongue tied. He had a hard time latching and just didn't seem all that interested. Once he was clipped, he began to nurse like a champ!

[eclipse]

I voted Other. With my first two, it came back at essentially the same time - 18 months or so. With my youngest, though, it came back at around 15 months. Interestingly, he was the only one I was with 24/7 and didn't have to pump at work for. I would have expected it to come back earlier with the first two, and later with him. No such luck!

[dkenagy]

I wasn't exclusively nursing my first and I got my first PPAF around 6 weeks. Then, with my second, it was 11 months to the day. Third was 10 months and a couple days, fourth was 14 months. Each of the last three were very similar nursers; all still nursing around the clock past a year... funnily enough, my earliest "BFing" ppaf was with my baby that nursed the most; EVERY two hours or less from birth well past a year...

[StrawberryFields]

Well, for the first two it came back around 18 months. This time, 2 months postpartum!!

[puddleduck]

6 months
4 months
8 weeks!

This was with BF constantly day and night at least every hour.

[Peony]

I am quite thin, nurse around the clock day and night, only had one child that a bottle or paci for a short amount of time.

DD1- 2.5 years

DD2 18 months

DS 8 months


Yea, it has come back ONE YEAR earlier with each child. I was really surprised at the 8 month one, I know the average is 14 months, I couldn't believe that I had gone years before and then it went down to a measly few months. A little bitter yes, for the first time in 7 years I have finally having to think about BC.

[Huck]

AF returned at 6 months with DS, who was a very frequent nurser day & night.

AF returned at 4 1/2 months with DD, who doesn't nurse as much as DS and started sleeping 5 hour stretches within the first 3 months. We're tandeming with DS.

[Sharlla]

DS1 and 2 8 weeks
DD 5.5 weeks. So around the same time.

[Harmony96]

I can't answer this poll yet, but I'm holding my place, lol. With DD, she had no solids or pacis or bottles until 8 months, but was sleeping through the night starting at around 3 weeks old (surprised me b/c I totally thought I'd be nursing at least once/night for a LOT longer than that). AF came back when she was 7 months old.

With DS, he is also sleeping through the night, but started that a little later, at about 7-8 weeks. He's 5.5 months old now and I haven't had any signs. I did have a big sign w/ DD around the time of my first ovulation (painful latch-on for a few days). When it happened, I wondered if I'd ovulated.... and sure enough, 10 days later, there came AF.

[elisheva]

Originally Posted by TiredX2

For moms who ecologically bfeed (no pacifiers, no bottles, night nursing is unrestricted...) the average is 14 months.

This is me. Until dd could get her had in her mouth recently it was only my breast for her. Yet I got my period back at 8 weeks pp...oh, and I am tandem nursing, too. With ds1, I got AF at 4 weeks and at 8 weeks with ds2. Hurrah for tandeming.

I'm, shall we say, fluffy. I wonder if fluffiness is a factor...

[mae14]

my first was a section and got my cycle back 2 weeks after the pp bleed was finished. My 2nd was vbac and my cycle returned 9 months after and with my third 7 months after.

[MangoMommy]

#1--5 mo (was not EBF)
#2--15 mo
#3--8 mo, which bummed me out. She nurses all the time, doesn't sleep thru the night,etc and does get bottles or even solids.

[lava]

6 weeks like clockwork for me x 4

With #1 we had bf problems so she was getting formula and I was pumping and bf'ing part-time and gave up by 2-3 months. Got 1st pp period at 6 weeks.

With #2, #3, and #4, very successful bf'ing, nursing round the clock, etc. #2 had no soother but my boob, #3 did take a paci, and #4 found his thumb early on (which still amazes me--never had one express even a mild interest in their thumb before)--but none of them slept more than 1-2 hours that early on. All of those--1st ppp at 6 weeks. And yes, fertility too--#2 and #3 are 13.5 months apart--you do the math.

Guess it's just how my body works.

-lava

[Just1More]

Seems like when I get below 9 hours of nursing a day is when it's over for me.

That's been different for each one. 13 months, 7 months, and 10 months.

[firewoman]

I can't remember when it came back with my first, but all the others are listed.

2nd-9 months
3rd- 8 weeks
4th- 4 months
5th- 3 months

[Norasmomma]

I'm like the unluckiest woman when it comes to AF with DD it was at 8-9 weeks PP, with DS it was at 7 weeks PP. With him I bled all 6 weeks too, ugh. Way LAME, I EBF all night and day and no matter what I am just one regular woman.

[redpajama]

I voted "much later," but I was tandem nursing, so I think that had some effect.

After my first child, I started my period at ~11 months.

After my second (while tandem nursing), I started my period at ~19 months.

And I'm currently tandem nursing my second and third, so I guess we'll see!

[annettemarie]

Because this is a cycle question and not one specifically about parenting a baby, I am moving this to Fertility.

[ms.shell]

DS1 was 15 months when af came back.
so i was QUITE surprised when i got a period before ds2 was 2 months old. They both were EBFed, but my younger son started sleeping through the night really early and i guess that is why af came back so much earlier after his birth. (the sleeping through the night thing was short lived, btw- now at 1 yo he wakes up at least 2x a night (or more) to nurse).