Post-partum Menses

Joka1234

I co-sleep and nurse pretty regularly through the day/night (when not at work), and just got my first post-partum period after 15 months last month. I know that medically it can take a few cycles for everything to sort itself out, but I was wondering what people's experience has been with post-partum periods, particularly while still nursing a toddler. Once you got one period, did they start up regularly? Or did it take a while to regulate? Did anyone then skip a few cycles before beginning back up again? I am mostly curious, but also thinking about TTC in the next year or two and trying to figure out how reliable charting will be. 

 Thanks ladies! 

danienross

If you're having AF then charting should be reliable.

My PP AF came back at 7mos even though DD continued to nurse around the clock for quite some time. My periods seemed fairly regular but because of charting I knew I didn't ovulate the first three cycles and then my LP was very short. I was having 28 day cycles but only ovulating 4 to 7 days before AF would show.

jesstellina

Your cycle doesn't have to be regular for charting to be reliable. That's th beauty of charting - you're not just counting days and assuming you'll ovulate at the same time every month.

I'm still nursing, just in the evening and before bed because I work long hours. My periods started again when DD was almost 10 months old. Iirc, for my first one or two cycles my luteal phase was ridiculously short, like 3 days. Things have been regular since then. 

drcolleen

my N=1, had my first PP menses around 16mo, had 2 35ish day anovulatory cycles then ovulated and as below, but that's me I guess not the irregularity. 

nosoup4u

I just got my period again after 22 months of nursing DS2. It's definitely regular, though I've only had two periods so far How much unbroken sleep do you get? You need at least four hours to get a good temp reading.

SunnyMuffin

I got my first pp period at 9 months, and my LO is almost 14 months now and they are still whack.  They used to be 30 days and my last one was 53 days!! I dont know when they'll return to normal