How long after completely weaning did your period return?

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OP,

As a research biologist, I can begin to answer your question: while we know that prolactin partially impacts menstruation, as PP said, there are so many instances of women getting their periods while exclusively and frequently breastfeeding that clearly other things are going on. Hormonal pathways and what they trigger is a fascinating field of science which we still know so little about.

Also, asking a broad question then posting to say you're laughing because the first posters didn't answer in the way you wanted, is rude, and you should stop doing that unless you relish the ensuing comments.

I didn't ask a broad question. I asked a very specific question- if you weaned completely and then your period returned how long was that interval. Posters here are just so self involved they answered with their experience despite it having nothing to do with the question.

To the posters who responded with relevant info, thank you! That was helpful.

wow, you're quite a peach. Pot, meet kettle.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:#1 - vaginal birth, higher maintenance baby, would never let me put him down, BF every 3 hours around the clock - 6 months
#2 - c section, DH took more time off and lower maintenance baby - 8 weeks

EBF for both

OP it sounds like it might be time for you to talk to your doctor (and/or take a pregnancy test)

What does this have to do with OP's question?

Absolutely nothing!

[Anonymous]

I was tracking my cycle because we were going to start for #2, and I was trying to see if I was ovulating. I think I ovulated about 3 days after completely weaning, so period came back a little over 2 weeks after. I was around 10 months pp, and had been cutting back on pumping sessions since 9 months.

[Anonymous]

My cycle was never completely clockwork, until I had my first baby. I got my first period almost exactly 28 days to the day of weaning BOTH TIME.

Then I got a mirena and I loooooove it so much. No period at all! Woohoo!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
OP,

As a research biologist, I can begin to answer your question: while we know that prolactin partially impacts menstruation, as PP said, there are so many instances of women getting their periods while exclusively and frequently breastfeeding that clearly other things are going on. Hormonal pathways and what they trigger is a fascinating field of science which we still know so little about.

Also, asking a broad question then posting to say you're laughing because the first posters didn't answer in the way you wanted, is rude, and you should stop doing that unless you relish the ensuing comments.

I didn't ask a broad question. I asked a very specific question- if you weaned completely and then your period returned how long was that interval. Posters here are just so self involved they answered with their experience despite it having nothing to do with the question.

To the posters who responded with relevant info, thank you! That was helpful.

wow, you're quite a peach. Pot, meet kettle.

It's ok to be self involved in YOUR OWN POST!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: 6 weeks after both vaginal deliveries, even though I was EBF for over a year.

OP here- I'm laughing a bit. I'm asking about when your period returned after weaning. This doesn't apply to you! Or may other responses. Sheesh.

Perhaps you don't understand...it's unusual to not have a period while breastfeeding.

It's really not. Many women don't resume their period until they've weaned.

Maybe in Africa. In the West in well nourished women the vast majority will get their period back well before they've weaned. The average is 6 months. So... you're just wrong and asking about outliers and wondering why you're not getting outlier responses.

Six months IF YOU'RE STILL BREASTFEEDING. I'm asking about when your period returns while you're breastfeeding. I'm asking about when your period returns if you wean your baby before it returns.

And you're so self absorbed you can't handle the fact your experience is the outlier.

BTW you should still take that pregnancy test!

OP- who cares if my experience is the outlier?? I'm asking for input with people with my experience. That's the whole point of this board. I don't go around chiming into questions that don't have anything to do with me because my experience isn't relevant to the OP and not helpful.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here again. I'm interested in the mechanisms of how weaning leads you to get your period back. IE, you stop producing certain honorees through breastfeeding, your body starts producing hormones to ovulate. I'm interested in that timeframe...weaning to fertility.

Someone whose period returns prior to weaning isn't going through what I'm curious about, because weaning obviously has nothing to do with their return to fertility.

Your subject line and lack of any information in your post didn’t state that you had weaned or that you were interested specifically in the return of fertility. Ask a broad question, get broad answers.

That part! WTF.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: 6 weeks after both vaginal deliveries, even though I was EBF for over a year.

You're not alone. Same.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here again. I'm interested in the mechanisms of how weaning leads you to get your period back. IE, you stop producing certain honorees through breastfeeding, your body starts producing hormones to ovulate. I'm interested in that timeframe...weaning to fertility.

Someone whose period returns prior to weaning isn't going through what I'm curious about, because weaning obviously has nothing to do with their return to fertility.

Your subject line and lack of any information in your post didn’t state that you had weaned or that you were interested specifically in the return of fertility. Ask a broad question, get broad answers.

That part! WTF.

Are there multiple definitions of weaning maybe? My understanding was that “weaning” meant stopping breastfeeding entirely. In which case OP’s question is very precise. Should she instead of worded it “if you didn’t get your period before completely stopping breastfeeding, how long after stopping did it take for your period to return?” I feel like that’s more confusing.

[Anonymous]

One week after the last time I breastfed, at 21 months post-partum. I had dropped to nursing twice per day after baby turned one, and once per day for the last two months prior to weaning completely. Got pregnant with my second the following month. 7 months post-partum with my second and no period yet.