https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 21 May 2026 03:12:56 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing/page/2#post-2520622 Sun, 10 Apr 2016 00:50:20 +0000 ksnow 2520622@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>After night weaning at 19 months </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing/page/2#post-2520605 Sat, 09 Apr 2016 21:34:34 +0000 FancyGem 2520605@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>About 3 or 4 months PP. I EBF. It was light for the first few months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing/page/2#post-2520599 Sat, 09 Apr 2016 20:31:47 +0000 winniebee 2520599@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>EBF and if returned at 7 weeks as a fluke. But then not again until 6.5 months after a few nights of almost STTN and then again 8.5 months when he was truly going down to one night feeding. And after that it was regular. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing/page/2#post-2520596 Sat, 09 Apr 2016 20:20:28 +0000 Circusbee 2520596@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>5 or 6 months pp. Babe was EBF, not sleeping through the night and cosleeping... :bummed: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing/page/2#post-2520559 Sat, 09 Apr 2016 17:19:44 +0000 stargal 2520559@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>it came back 15 months pp. he started nursing less but it still caught me off guard! it was awesome to go that long without it! he was a constant nurser though and JUST started STTN at around 17 months! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing/page/2#post-2517834 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 22:58:53 +0000 mrs.shinerbock 2517834@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>AF came back when I stopped pumping and went to just nursing first thing in the morning and before bed at 1 year. It didn't normalize before I got another BFP. It hasn't returned yet after LO2's birth. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing/page/2#post-2517829 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 22:47:08 +0000 birdofafeather 2517829@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>None of these reasons applied to me. AF came back 1 day before DD's 1st birthday. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing/page/2#post-2517490 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 15:13:16 +0000 DesertDreams88 2517490@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Really surprised there's not more consensus! Guess it really is random then. Thanks for the input everyone. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing/page/2#post-2517487 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 15:10:10 +0000 MrsRcCar 2517487@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With N I came back a month after I pump weaned. (8 months when I weaned). E was nearly two before I got pregnant (and lost it). Got pregnant the very next cycle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing/page/2#post-2517469 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 15:00:59 +0000 Mrsk 2517469@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>2 months pp. ugh, and I brushed around the clock, day and night every hour or two....no weaning, no working, nothing changed. I was super pissed I didn't get longer without it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing/page/2#post-2517283 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 12:57:21 +0000 BrandNewMom 2517283@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>22.5 months, it coincided with the start of weaning and the end of night feeds </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing/page/2#post-2517265 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 12:46:17 +0000 sslm 2517265@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I couldn't really vote in the poll... it was around 8 months, but she wasn't a big eater of solids so it wasn't to do with that. Her sleep was awful at that time, so nothing to do with that either... Like others have said above, no real rhyme or reason! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing/page/2#post-2517249 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 12:33:42 +0000 LAZB 2517249@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It came back when DD was 10 months, but no reason that I can think of. I had been back at work since 12 weeks, she had been sleeping through the night since 2 months, and had been eating a lot of solids since 8/9 months.<br /> It was pretty regular right away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing#post-2517218 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 12:16:38 +0000 anonysquire 2517218@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>10 freaking weeks after birth for the first and like 6ish weeks after the second. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing#post-2517215 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 12:14:33 +0000 lilteacherbee 2517215@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With LO1, it came back at 11 months. He was nursing about 4-5 times during the day and once overnight.</p> <p>It hasn't returned yet, this time (LO2 is 8 months). He's still nursing every 3 hours and 2-3 times overnight. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing#post-2517210 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 12:12:05 +0000 MoonMoon 2517210@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>21 months pp. (Thank you, period gods! :silly: )</p> <p>I don't know if I can pinpoint the reason, but it was probably overall decrease in nursing, plus night weaning/both of us sleeping longer at night. It took another few months to be what I recognize as my "normal" cycle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing#post-2517147 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 11:36:13 +0000 Mrs. Toad 2517147@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>9 months, no reason. I was at home with him. He had been into solids for several months and we night weaned when he STTN at 10 weeks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing#post-2516778 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 08:09:26 +0000 avivoca 2516778@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It came back at 6 months pp. She was still EBF. It was a doozy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing#post-2516777 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 08:08:29 +0000 Mama Bird 2516777@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>First time, around 15 months when we gave up that one last evening feeding... but as I found out later, I was kind of malnourished so that kept it away longer. This time, still waiting at 8.5 months but I suspect I won't have as long of a break. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing#post-2516758 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 07:42:11 +0000 Alba4 2516758@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I weaned and got my period the next month. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing#post-2516678 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 05:08:40 +0000 Kemma 2516678@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With my big girl AF returned at around 14 months pp following a stretch of particularly good night sleep (she nursed frequently and at night until at least eighteen months), I had three irregular cycles before becoming pregnant again.</p> <p>My second baby has just turned one and AF still hasn't returned despite the fact that he has slept through the night and been on solids for at least six months (he's also a very efficient nurser who doesn't hang around when feeding!). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing#post-2516667 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 04:09:16 +0000 Pumuckl 2516667@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My cycle came back at around 9 months PP for my first and 6.5/7 months PP with my second. With my first it was def. related to solids and no nursing during the day and with my second I am not sure since she was still not eating solids at that point. She was also STTN for two months (3-4.5m) and then didn't for the two months right before my period returned so I am not sure whether that factored into it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing#post-2516653 Tue, 05 Apr 2016 23:49:35 +0000 AprilFool 2516653@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It returned a month after fully weaning. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing#post-2516652 Tue, 05 Apr 2016 23:49:12 +0000 PawPrints 2516652@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think I fall into "no rhyme or reason." DD is 12 months old and I've had two periods, the first one at 9.5 mo (super light spotting, barely counted) and one seven weeks after that at 11.5 mo. So I don't really know that I have a "cycle" yet. I'm still pumping 2x at work and nursing morning and evening, and DD is eating an appropriate amount of solids, and just started to sip some WCM. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing#post-2516650 Tue, 05 Apr 2016 23:47:53 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 2516650@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No reason--it came back at 11 weeks post partum the first 2 times and I was nursing on demand around the clock, at least 3-4 times a night.</p> <p>The third time it came back at 5 months pp, even though I followed the same "schedule" (on demand) as I did with my first 2. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing#post-2516642 Tue, 05 Apr 2016 23:28:12 +0000 AB810 2516642@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No reason that I can pinpoint.</p> <p>with #1 it came back at 8 months pp. she was ebf, waking multiple times a night to nurse, and I was out of the house 20+ hours a week (pumping when I came home).</p> <p>with #2 it came back at 3. 5 months pp. still multiple night wakings and ebf. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing#post-2516612 Tue, 05 Apr 2016 22:23:33 +0000 MamaBear87 2516612@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Obnoxiously early at 3 months! Lo wasn't sleeping more than about a 4 hour stretch, I'm not on birth control and she is ebf. I was kinda upset. I really only got a little over a month after the postpartum bleeding stopped all the way. Second cycle was around 36 days later and this one 32. Pretty sure I'll be back to my normal 28 this coming cycle </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing#post-2516595 Tue, 05 Apr 2016 21:57:17 +0000 JoyfulKiwi 2516595@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I started the mini-pill at 8 weeks pp, so it may have impacted it a bit. I never had a period until I completely weaned at 2 years post-partum. I got an IUD at 8 weeks pp this time &amp; have been having constant spotting, but I'm not counting that as a cycle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing#post-2516282 Tue, 05 Apr 2016 15:11:45 +0000 Mrsbells 2516282@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>about 2 months after birth. There was no trigger or major change </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-your-cycle-return-duringafter-nursing#post-2516255 Tue, 05 Apr 2016 14:47:15 +0000 delight 2516255@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It came back at 4m PP. She was entirely BF but was sleeping 10 hour stretches so maybe that's why it came back then. </p>