A funny thing happened tonight (female related, maybe TMI!)

[koima]

I did a focus group tonight about a women's product and the form I filled out asked for my last menstrual period. It was in Nov 2007, when I got pregnant with DD. I'm still nursing and it hasn't started again. Yay!

The woman who was leading the group briefly read our forms before we started and she got to mine and made a comment like, "wow, how've you gotten out of it for so long?"

I said I had a baby and am nursing and she asked, "You don't have a period while you're nursing?! I never heard that! Why don't the breastfeeding ads mention THAT convenient fact? I'd be willing to have saggy ****s to avoid my period for a year."

All the other women were moms, and one woman said, "The ****s get saggy whether you breastfeed or not. Pregnancy deflates them!" and another woman said, "I don't know, mine were pretty saggy before having babies. Now they're saggy and flat as a pancake."

A third woman said, "Mine were nice before and after nursing. But they got blisters and bled trying to get the baby to nurse, and that was before he started to bite." The look on the leader's face was priceless - like maybe we were talking her out of procreating altogether!

I was almost crying I laughed so hard!

 

[happygirl]

A little off topic but you might need to go to the Dr and see what's going on since it has been so long

 

[koima]

It's totally normal for it to not come back while nursing. My doctor told me about it.

 

[happygirl]

It's totally normal for it to not come back while nursing. My doctor told me about it.

Okay I had never heard that.

 

[Jaclynfett]

Nursing gave me at least a 12-16 month break from my period.

 

[HelenePA]

A little off topic but you might need to go to the Dr and see what's going on since it has been so long

I still haven't gotten mine its awesome! Very normal! Although I am PMSing it very badly this week.. I wonder if she's about to show. I hope not, I do NOT miss it at all!

 

[bellebuzzntink]

 

[JJZMgailey]

That is totally normal. I didn't have my period from the time I got pregnant with both kids until after I stopped nursing them. They were both about 16 months old when I stopped nursing.

Enjoy your time because it really stinks when you get it back!!!

 

[crazee4mickey]

A little off topic but you might need to go to the Dr and see what's going on since it has been so long

I don't believe there is anything to be concerned about at all. I nursed all 4 of my children and not having a period the entire time was normal and this was for a year to year and a half for each one.

To the OP: Too funny how from answering a question on a form had all the women talking about their saggy ****s

 

[mickeyboat]

I got pregnant while I was nursing!

 

[Hercules10]

Saggy-****s threads are depressing.

 

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[SCHBR'smom]

Now I'm jealous, I've nursed all my kids for a year, and have always gotten my period between 6-9 mos. Except this time, this time I got it at 6 weeks!! I get the saggy b**bs and the period!!! No FAIR!!

 

[casndan]

I really hope I'm as lucky as you!

 

[merryweather20]

Now I'm jealous, I've nursed all my kids for a year, and have always gotten my period between 6-9 mos. Except this time, this time I got it at 6 weeks!! I get the saggy b**bs and the period!!! No FAIR!!

Its supposed to be more common if you are a SAHM vs. pumping. I live in Niagara Falls, ON and we get a full year maternity leave here (unless the husband takes some) its much more common for my friends here, than my friends in Buffalo who have to go back to work right away and pump etc.

 

[SCHBR'smom]

Its supposed to be more common if you are a SAHM vs. pumping. I live in Niagara Falls, ON and we get a full year maternity leave here (unless the husband takes some) its much more common for my friends here, than my friends in Buffalo who have to go back to work right away and pump etc.

I AM a SAHM!!! Powerful hormones, I guess. I've also gotten pregnant twice while nursing. That's how we got DD4 and DD0.
I've never been able to pump, and I have always fed them for a year. Proof that everyone's body is different.

 

[merryweather20]

I AM a SAHM!!! Powerful hormones, I guess. I've also gotten pregnant twice while nursing. That's how we got DD4 and DD0.
I've never been able to pump, and I have always fed them for a year. Proof that everyone's body is different.

Thats probably not the reason then With your beautiful DD's sounds like everything worked out pretty well

 

[teskak]

I heard from a nursing counsellor that AF starts once baby starts sleeping through the night. so when i dropped the 2am pump session, AF kicked in

 

[PaulaSue]

LMAO, sounds like usual LLL talk.

 

[PaulaSue]

A little off topic but you might need to go to the Dr and see what's going on since it has been so long

BTW, it is TOTALLY normal not to have a period while nursing. I EN and didn't get it till well after my girls turned 1.