When Did Your Period Resume?

The first time mine came back once I had completely weaned my son at around 13 months or so. Now with my second, he is six months old and I have seen no signs of a period. So I am expecting that once I wean him around a year it will show back up. So I am just enjoying not having to shop the kotex aisle, one nice little perk :D

My answer will be no help at all... mine came back the next month, and I was nursing round the clock.

((Kind of ironically, my periods are always irregular EXCEPT for when I was nuring... then, it was like clockwork. Maybe I'm just backwards.))

6 weeks with the first child.. 6 months with athe second child. it is common not to menstruate when you are nursing.

It sounds like I nurse my son about as often as you nurse your baby. He was 9 months old when I got my period back. (The very day my in-laws descended for the weekend to see my son for the first time- great timing, huh :) I started feeling pre-menstraully about 2 weeks before.

I wasn't able to breastfeed, so I started mine at about a month after birth. I've heard of many women that didn't start their periods until after they stopped breast feeding. You could try an ovulation kit to help with conceiving. If you're a reader, this book has some helpful hints as to knowing exactly when is best to conceive http://www.tcoyf.com/ (Taking Charge of Your Fertility)

Good luck!!

With my first son, I think I started when I stopped pumping during the day, which was around 14 months. I still nursed him at bedtime and on the weekend, but he also stopped the night time nursing a little before that time. It was enough to stop the hormone from flowing that stops you from ovulating. You aren't ovulating at this point since you don't have a period, but obviously the first month you have a period you will ovulate and probably not know when. I know my period was pretty weird even for the first 3-4 months...I would have like two weeks on, two weeks off, and the bleeding was spotty and not as heavy. My Dr gave me a hormone pill of some sort to take during my next cycle that "cleaned me out" and that got me going back more like normal. Def recommend reading Taking Charge of your Fertility and learning to chart as it shows you in the book, although charting even is hard until you get back on a regular schedule. You can also do the charting online at fertilityfriend.com. With my second I had an IUD put in when he was about a year, and he just weaned at 2 1/2 and the IUD pretty much stopped any semblance of a period I was having, so I can't speak to much to what happened with that one.

I didn't start my period with my first till she was totally weaned. I had one period and then we tried (and succeeded) for our second. One period in 29 months has been heavenly!

When I got my period and starting ovulating again after my first, I so knew it! I could feel myself ovulating. It was weird.

My daughter was about 13 months when I got mine back. I pumped while working full time for 12 months and nursed on demand when we were together. I continued to nurse until 18 months...but it came back anyway :-(.

Watch your cervical mucus for a couple of months and use an ovulation test kit. I still had changes in my mucus even though I wasn't menstruating.

I was one of the "unlucky" ones, who despite nursing exclusively, got my periods back at 6-7 weeks with each of my 3 kids.

I don't think it would be harder to conceive--we had no trouble with irregular periods after my first (we got pregnant the first month) and after our second child with my crazy, heavy, all over the place periods we got pregnant in about 2 or 3 months. I did not have a period after my second child until just after he turned 1, so I would just enjoy it for now! :)

for me i didn't get my period back until I was completely done nursing my babies. So like with my second I stopped nursing her at 13 months and it then took a whole month of no nursing until it came back....so not until 14 months after giving birth.