When does AF return postpartum?

I know everyone is *different* and bf can cause delay but I'm curious when I might expect her to return.

It feels strange not being pregnant and no AF.

When did AF return to you postpartum?

Mine was a mth after and it was very heavy.

With Abby AF returned when she was 9 months old and I was still bf Abby. Micah is now 3 months old and still no AF, so hopefully she will stay away as long as she did last time:-D Everyone is different, some BF moms get AF right away, other don't get her until they finish BF. I would say, count your blessings.....heehee!

I remember around 10 months with my first and I am pretty sure it was around the same if not longer with our second. I was bf with both.:-D
Enjoy!

I bf but ended up getting postpartum AF within the first two months after both of my pregnancies.:???: I heard that bf would delay AF but didn't for me, seems like tworks for everybody else but me.[whatwacko] LOL!

I'm almost 8mths pp this time and still no AF. I did have a bit of spotting a couple of times, but nothing ever got going. I'm still bf 4-5 times per day although dd takes 1 bottle and eats solids at this point.

With me it varied based on the amount of bf we did. Once my kids began to cut down too much AF appeared again.

HTH
Beth

My Af came back about 4-6 weeks postpartum. I bf'd for 1 year...[whatwacko]

Almost 16 months postpartum and still no AF! (And no ovulation either)

You get used to it after awhile!! :)

I have a friend who induced AF back at 25-26 months postpartum because she was TTC again and was having difficulty. She still isn't pregnant yet, though, and he's 33 months old, so it could be that breastfeeding is causing her not to ovulate even though she's cycling.

Generally your chances for a long time of breastfeeding infertility are best if you avoid pacifiers, nurse at night, wait until at least 6 months to introduce solids, nurse before offering solids the first year, nurse on demand as often as the baby wants, stay close to your baby and nurse to comfort her, etc.

Your chances of having AF return are greatly increased if your baby sleeps through the night early on, uses a pacifier, eats a lot of solids, nurses on a schedule, doesn't nurse for comfort, or stays with babysitters a lot.

The stimulation that is required to hold back AF varies greatly from woman to woman, some get it back even while nursing on demand around the clock, others can cut back to 1 or 2 nursings a day and not get it. Women with higher estrogen levels tend to start cycling earlier.

My daughter has been mostly not nursing at night and I expected to finally get AF, but maybe my body hasn't gotten the memo that it needs night nursing to suppress fertility, because she hasn't nursed much at night in a couple of weeks, and still not very many serious fertility signs.

Enjoy your AF break! :)

Ditto Ruth's info :)

For each of mine AF has returned between 12-14 months...somewhere around there. By that time my babes have started the weaning process, sleeping most of the night in their own beds, being very active during the day..all that kind of stuff that gets them to the breast less frequently. My first returned pretty well right *at* 12 months, though he was still nursing..and for a few months after. His nursing had just gotten infrequent enough to change *my* body.
The others..AF didn't return until a bit later and with some, not until the child was all but completely weaned. Like "down to the wire" kind of thing.

I'm an on demand, exclusive breastfeeder. My babies don't have solid food before 8 or 9 months and even then it's VERY little. Nowhere near comprises a meal.

I think that has a lot to do with it.

Though, as Ruth said, every woman (and cycle) is different. You hear all the time (and I know some personally) that a woman HAS exclusively nursed, on demand, and AF still returned at 2 months or something. That's just how it is *shrug*

But anywho...at least you've heard the variances.
I say sit back and enjoy it! I know AF is 'life' and all but, I'm sorry, I'm not one of those gals who can exactly embrace it LOL It's not a pleasant experience for me and I am QUITE happy for her to be gone all that time. Doesn't hurt my feelings ONE bit :)

12-14 months here too.

With my older daughter, it didn't come back until about 7 months PP, now with my son, I've had very light ones starting at 2 mo PP. I don't know why it came back earlier with him because he seems to eat twice as much as DD did!

With my son, after I had completely weaned him - about 14 months I think.

My daughter isn't weaned yet (now 13 months) and no sign of it yet.

3 kids -
6 mo
6 mo
11 mo (wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!)

Mine took about 5-6 months. At six weeks I had an IUD put in and bled just a little then, but then nothing for another 4-1/2 months or so. It was sooooooo nice except the wondering when will it happen and how big will it be.

Enjoy the time off! :)

we are 4 months PP and still no sign of AF.