What are the odds of THIS????

Re: What are the odds of THIS????

• jennyelf member

  July 2012

  I think mine may have started today too, or at least there was a bright red spot today.... I'll be 8 weeks PP tomorrow. I too am EBF / pumping, no supplementing. Not sure what effect this will have on my supply.
  

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• Sherbet Lemon member

  July 2012

  Mine started yesterday. Ebf here as well. So far I haven't noticed a drop in supply, I'm annoyed though. I thought BF ing would give me a break from af. Sigh. 

  

  

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• winter-shock member

  July 2012

  I have EBF both my girls. And with my first I had my first period at 3 months PP. But it was just one then I never got it regularly until 6 months PP. I EBF until she was 9 months.  So far I am period free but I am sure I will get one anytime now. I hate them. 

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• picklesx member

  July 2012

  Mine came at 6 weeks PP but I went back on the pill at 2 weeks PP so I guess that doesnt really help.

  
  
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• Jess & Drew member

  July 2012

  This happened to me too. I have PCOS, and I only got periods if the were brought on with medicine. At my 6 wk PP visit, my Dr actually said "call me in 6 months so we can get you a period since i dont expect you to have one on your own". Then at 7 1/2ish wks I got the Niagara Falls of periods!

  

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• PotomacSt member

  July 2012

  I also EBF and had a major 1.5 week bleeding session starting at six weeks.

  There's a thing called the 'sixth week bleed' in BFing women which is supposedly NOT your period, but has to do with hormone levels changing due to BFing.

  This was cited on another forum and I swiped it:

  In a recent study, where postpartum bleeding in nursing mothers was evaluated, any bleed, less than 56 days (nine weeks) into the postpartum period was considered a sixth-week bleed, if it was separated from the lochia (post-birth vaginal discharge) by at least four days where no bleeding occurred. A little over one fourth of all breastfeeding mothers in this study experienced a sixth-week bleed, though only 10 percent of these women actually resumed their period at this time.
  
  In this study of 485 nursing mothers, it was found that the average duration of lochia is 27 days. It is not affected by frequency of nursing. It is common for postpartum bleeding to stop and restart. Postpartum bleeding is still considered to be lochia if it is has continued without an episode of at least four bleeding-free days. If bleeding begins less than four days after it has stopped it is still considered to be one episode.
  
  When a nursing mother does experience a sixth-week bleed, there is more likelihood that she will experience an earlier return of ovulation and her menses. (Visness C.M. et al. The duration and character of postpartum bleeding among breast-feeding women. Obstet Gynecol 1997;89:159-63)

   

  Unfortunately there's sooo little information out there on it, and although it's unlikely that you (or me) are resuming fertility at this point, it's hard to want to take that gamble, even if the odds are in our favor. As my lactation consultant put it to me, if you can't bear the thought of getting pregnant again right now, assume it is your period and use protection.

  I didn't want to but I took my first mini-pill yesterday however, if you wanted to take more of a 'wait-and-see' approach to determine if it really is your period, you could always use condoms until you see if it comes again next month.
  

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