About a year with all of them. If you are having problems breast feeding, the best thing you can do is get a competent lactation consultant before moving on to formula. Breast feeding is so much easier than formula. I would hate for you to give uo on it right away if things don't go smoothly right away like some of the pp's here. I had a rough start with my first, but I stuck with it after getting help. I'm so glad I did. It really is the best thing for you and the baby. I don't see formula as a bad thing. I just think that those who gave up didn't receive proper help and support.

PP here. My breasts were always kind of deflated, never perky. That's what happens when you develop breasts seemingly overnight. I went from a high school freshman who didn't really need to wear a bra to a 30C by the next year. Stretch marks and sag. Part of my life.

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Anonymous wrote:Those who nursed 6 mths plus, did you get your monthly periods?

Mine came back around 9 months the first time. It all depends. I know some people who don't get it back until they stop. Others got regular period immediately after post partum.

Mine came back at 9 months. My sister just got hers back at 3 months and she's EBF too!

8 months. EBF for the first four, then mostly BM with some formula, since I couldn't pump enough to keep up once I went back to work.

13 months and counting...

Still nursing at 6.5 months. Had to start supplementing a bottle of formula a day around 5.5 months (can't pump enough at work). Planning to keep going until 12 months.

1 year for both

20 months with first kid. Nursing was pretty easy despite full-term baby spending first few days in the NICU. The first 2-3 weeks were exhusting with the constant nursing, but the actual act of breastfeeding wasn't hard. Period came back around 5 months despite nursing/pumping frequently. Was only nursing mornings and evenings by 13 months and then down to just once a day for the last few months.

Still going strong with second kid at 16 months (nursing 2-3x a day) despite a rough start. Kid loved breastfeeding but had a bad latch and mild tongue-tie which likely contributed to supply issues. It took about 6 weeks of pumping after every feeding and supplementing with formula (at first) and then expressed breast milk before things were easy, though. I'm not sure I would have stuck it out if I hadn't had such a easy time the first time. Period came back around 4 months.

EBF for a year and my boobs deflated WAY beyond belief and shrunk a size (from a very perky and full B to a deflated, droopy A). My mom didn't breastfeed and hers are still full and perky.

EBF for a year with a little supplementing during months 9-12. I didn't plan on doing it that long. I won't do it again (I'm pregnant with number 2). It became a weird, obsessive thing and I was afraid of formula, but I know it made that year very difficult for me. I started my period around 9 or 10 months post-partum.

13 months.

14 months.

20 months.

EBF all for about 6 months. None of my babies woke to be nursed much past that point ...

I was probably down to nursing 1-2 times day as babies got to the year mark...morning and night.

Middle baby would have been content to be latched on round the clock, but at ped's advice, we discovered the freedom of a pacifier. He remains my child with an enormous appetite.

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Anonymous wrote:First time soon to be mom here too. This is cosmetic, but do breastfeeding moms get deflated breasts after? Just wondering as I have a friend who calls her breasts, fun sag bags. She is ebf now and her daughter is now 2 (she is trying to wean now).

Recent studies have shown that it's pregnancy that causes saggy boobs, not breastfeeding. My mom never breastfed any of her 3 kids and had saggy, deflated boobs. Mine aren't deflated now as I'm nursing baby #2 but after it's done, they will be unless I get a boob job.

Ha, yes I got to defer my tiny deflated boobs for just over 2 years. Hoping to get another voluptuous 2 out of my next kid. LOL. Period back after 17 months.

EBF until I went back to work at 5mos. (started solids at 6mos)

BF mornings, nights, weekends plus pumping at work until 12mos

BF mornings, nights and weekends until 26mos.

Period returned at 14mos, i.e. after I stopped pumping.

8 months and still going strong. Just got my period.

Anonymous wrote:Those who nursed 6 mths plus, did you get your monthly periods?

Mine came back around 9 months the first time. It all depends. I know some people who don't get it back until they stop. Others got regular period immediately after post partum.