Cycle after birth?

When did your cycle come back after giving birth? I just made it to 6 week postpartum and I’m a breast feeding mom. I heard breast feeding stops your cycle from coming is that true?

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I breastfed for 4 months but got my period back 3 months postpartum- but it still isn’t regular and I’m 7 month postpartum now. Some months I have 2 then I’ll go 2 month without one

I'm 5 1/2 months pp EBF and have not yet had mine return

I was bleeding for 4 weeks , got my period back on the 6th week

Mine just came back yesterday my son is 14 months

I ebf

Definitely not. I had mine at 6 weeks then a gap until 9 months.

Takes up to 2 years for hormones to go back to normal regardless of how you feed.

Definitely get on birth control if you don't want another yet cos you ovulate before the period comes back.

I had my son in Jan 25, and was EBF until he turned 1. Got my first period in the Dec (I imagine as I had started to wean off breast feeding as his solids intake started to increase and to prepare for my return to work), and then fell pregnant the following Feb. My cycles didnt really properly stabilise during that time.

3 months had a bleeding and then after 3 months my period was back

I ebf and my cycle came back after 6 weeks 😭🤷‍♀️ came back totally regular/on time and has been since. but my God. It's so much heavier than before

10 months when I went back to work, even though I was pumping

Breastfed for 19 months and cycle came back at about 10-11 months! X

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Posting as incognito as I don’t want to feel judged! I’ve tried getting hold of my health visitor but she never answers the phone.

My little boy is 13 weeks old and is breast fed, he won’t take to dummies or anything like that.

Since around maybe 11 weeks he has point blank refused to sleep in his next to me (he’s not been too much of a fan sleeping by himself in his own bed since birth but would sleep in there for a good 5 hours) at night time so for 2 weeks I’ve only been able to get him to sleep in bed next to me on the boob, now he also has not been able to sleep without boob in his mouth and if I move an inch or even go for a wee he kicks off immediately (he just wants to be on my boob throughout the whole night) nothing myself or my partner has tried has worked, I’ve tried pumping and giving him a bottle before bed but that made everything 10x worse to the point he refused to sleep for 4 hours. I’ve even tried leaving the room so my partner can try patting him off/ cuddling him but my boy screams to the top of his lungs until I come back and then he’s fine. He also sleeps absolutely fine during his naps too with the occasional fighting his nap time.

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