When did you get your first postpartum period?

[dcn]

11 months with ds1
Ds2 is 7 months, nothing yet.

[boiler717]

At 5w it's still lochia.
I had a short, light 3 day period at 19w PP. I'm almost 27w and haven't had anything since.

[bowies]

Somewhere between 4-5 months. I had just gone back to work.

[closertofine]

7 weeks, but I FF from the start.

[boiler717]

Jul 2, 2016 10:39:01 GMT -5 @bigreddog said:

Jul 2, 2016 10:34:49 GMT -5 boiler717 said:

At 5w it's still lochia.
I had a short, light 3 day period at 19w PP. I'm almost 27w and haven't had anything since.

It's nothing like my lochia though and I'm having period cramps. My lochia completely went away and the bleeding is regular through the day...?

I had some crazy cramps around 6w PP too. My lochia would stop and start up again. I remember asking on here and someone said anything before 56d PP is clinically lochia.

[Blue Moon]

I EBF and I didn't get one until 15 months.

[hungrycaterpillar]

I don't know. I'm 6 weeks PP and I started bleeding again after stopping for a week. Its a completely different color than before. I'm pumping and FF so I don't know what this is.

[holly116]

Around 3 months all three times but I'm an anomaly.

Even with feeding on demand around the clock, not sttn, no pacifier, no formula, no solids, no pumping etc. My body wants me to have a dozen babies.

[djc315]

11w, I was bfing and supplementing at that point. I supplemented more than usual over the holidays and I got my first PP period 2 weeks later.

[Deleted]

I got mine at 7 weeks PP.

[katiescarlett]

9 months, 6 months, and 14 months. This time nothing yet, but I've had very minor spotting about 4 weeks apart this month and last so I'm not sure what that's all about. I'm 4.5 months postpartum.

[patbutcher]

Jul 2, 2016 10:44:38 GMT -5 hungrycaterpillar said:

I don't know. I'm 6 weeks PP and I started bleeding again after stopping for a week. Its a completely different color than before. I'm pumping and FF so I don't know what this is.

Ditto this except I'm 7 weeks pp. I started bleeding today, I'm assuming it's my period.
With dd1 I ebf and didn't get my period until she was 6 months

[MadamePresident]

12 months to the day with #1 and 15 months with #2, but I was tandem nursing with #2 .

[7costanza]

8 weeks, and I EBF . 😭

[undecidedowl]

I EBF and take the minipill. With DS1, I didn't get a period until 2 years PP when I stopped the pill to TTC. This time, DS2 is 20 mo and nothing yet.

[pooh8402]

5 months, even with the mirena and EBF. It was very light, but still had all the PMS symptoms and I needed a pantiliner.

[KaraOrNot]

7 weeks. I pumped until 6 weeks and then switched to formula.

[Deleted]

Jul 2, 2016 11:02:25 GMT -5 @bigreddog said:

Jul 2, 2016 11:00:14 GMT -5 @lapsha said:

I got mine at 7 weeks PP.

Were you formula feeding or breast feeding?

Formula.

[dancingirl21]

Right around 5.5-6 weeks PP but I FF from the beginning. My OB said to expect it around that time again with this baby.

[chickadee77]

28 days on the nose. My pp bleeding had finally let up, and WHAM, cramps and murder-scene-like blood for 4-5 days. Despite breastfeeding. And I've been like clockwork ever since, so I count that as a period, though I guess it could have been another round of pp bleeding the first time around.

[babyrn]

Mine started at 5 weeks with dd1 even though I EBF. I was not happy.
I am 5 weeks this time and having a ton of cramping and some red/pink spotting. I think it's just lochia at this point. I will be so upset if it's my period starting so early again. I am BF and pumping.

[pinkdutchtulips]

7 wks pp

the week i went back to work and dd started sttn .... my period came back. dd was on 50/50 bm/formula.

[Koala]

I think at about 11 or 12 weeks pp. it was 3 weeks after I got my mirena, and the bleeding from that had stopped about a week prior. Nothing since then though.

[Susie]

7.5 months and counting, still no pp period. I am still BFing.

[missbella]

11.5 months with DS. He nursed on demand around the clock.

DD was born the same day as your DS and I am hoping to make it just as long but she is already pretty much STTN so I don't know if I will be so lucky.

[abs]

10 or 11 months I think? I can't remember. It was just under a year. And I FF so I got lucky!

I had PP bleeding forever though.

[Monica Geller]

9 weeks and I was EBF. I hated everything that day!

[lo]

21.5 months while breastfeeding

[Queen Mamadala]

DD1: 8 months
DD2: 12/13 months, IIRC.
DS1: 7 weeks (not breastfeeding)
DS2: 9 months
DD3: 9 months

I combo fed with my last two.

[Marmee]

4mo when I FF, 8-11mo when I BF.

But my mom got hers a month after post partum bleeding stopped every time despite EBFing. She also got her period at 9 & menopause late...so she just had terrible period luck in general.