EBF Mammas - When did AF return for you?

[nstewart]

DS is 8 months old.  We're doing baby led weaning and I nurse on demand.  We co-sleep so DS nurses a lot during the night (I don't actually keep track of how many times, or how much he takes.  I more or less just fall back asleep but I know he loves his night time nursies!)  He eats a lot of food some days, others not so much.  So I'm not surprised that AF hasn't returned yet.

I'm not counting on this for BC or anything, just curious about other people's experiences.  I imagine everyone is different anyway.  So, when did you start cycling again?

[kismetbaby]

14m for me. We also co-sleep and DS always was, and still is, super attached to his nursies. I didn't start to feel any hormonal shifting (like a return of any CM ect) till about 12-13m.  He is now about to turn 18m and my cycles are still not "normal".  Probably not able to get pg yet.  But as I said DS still nurses like mad and still a couple times at night too.

[woodchick]

With both of my girls my period returned exactly 20 months after they were born. I didn't feel anything cycle related until that very cycle that I got my period. 

[SubliminalDarkness]

Almost 12 months on the nose. 

[jenmary]

11.5 months after baby 1, and ~11 months for baby 2.

[KABB]

I don't remember with my other two but with our son it was 10 1/2 months with our daughter it was 13 1/2 months I think. 

[Lineymom]

14m with first 22m with second.  I have a 16 month old and hoping it will keep staying away... but I feel like its coming soon.

[ladyleah]

My DS is almost 16 months old and mine has not returned....but I have been feeling like I have massive PMS for months now! Ugh!

[Skinjob]

6 months for me - and we nurse all day and all night! I was hoping it would stay away longer!

[amaayeh]

With my first, she took a pacifier, but I still pretty much nursed on demand until I listened to my family tell me I was doing it all wrong.  When I cut her back a little bit, I got my period back a week after her first birthday.

With my second, I nursed on demand until recently and got my period back two months before she turned two years old.  (ETA:  She never had a paci and didn't eat solids until 9/10 months old)

[Chloe'sMama]

DD1- 14 months for period to return, 16 months for ovulation (got pregnant 2nd cycle).  We were nursing on demand and co-sleeping.

DD2- 7 months and no signs.... I am tandem nursing and co-sleeping.  She has no solids at all yet.