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K.B.
July 10th 03, 09:49 PM
When can I expect a period? My son will be 3 months next week.
Kris

Larry McMahan
July 10th 03, 11:37 PM
K.B. > writes:
: When can I expect a period? My son will be 3 months next week.
: Kris

Well, you can't. What I mean is that is is highly variable. My
wife and a good friend of hers had babies at about the same time.
My wife's period returned after 4 1/2 months. Her friend's period
returned after 20 months, and then only after using light therapy.

There is no reliable way to predict.

Larry

Michelle J. Haines
July 11th 03, 12:35 AM
In article <DjkPa.40443$C83.3185462
@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, says...
> When can I expect a period? My son will be 3 months next week.

If you're nursing exclusively, there's really no telling. Some women
get it back at six weeks, others go months or years without one. I
didn't get a return of menstruation until 20 months after my second
son was born.

Michelle
Flutist

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Naomi Pardue
July 11th 03, 12:53 AM
>When can I expect a period? My son will be 3 months next week.

The 'average' (the mean) for the return of menstruation in women who are fully
breastfeeding (no bottles, feeding on demand, starting solids in the usual
amounts at the usual time of around 6 months) is about 9 months. But women are
highly variable. An occassional woman gets a period 2 months post partum and
is regular as clockwork from then on. Other women never menstruate as long as
they are nursing, even if they don't wean for several years, and their toddler
is only nursing once or twice a day by the end of it. So you really can't know.


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Sara
July 11th 03, 01:52 AM
Larry McMahan wrote:

> Her friend's period
> returned after 20 months, and then only after using light therapy.

Light therapy? Really? Like, therapy involving lights?

--
Sara, curious

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Marie
July 11th 03, 02:50 AM
K.B. wrote in message ...
>When can I expect a period? My son will be 3 months next week.


With my older daughter, it was 13 months post-partum (She was still nursing
at the time). This daughter is 9 months and no period yet (yay).
It is still possible to get pregnant, so be careful (not my business but
some say you can't if you haven't gotten your period yet and that's just not
true).
Marie

Dawn Lawson
July 11th 03, 02:54 AM
Sara wrote:

> Larry McMahan wrote:
>
> > Her friend's period
> > returned after 20 months, and then only after using light therapy.
>
> Light therapy? Really? Like, therapy involving lights?

If it's the same one I'm familiar with, the theory goes that since women
are on a moon cycle, and the light pollution and indoor living make it
hard to get natural phasing, if you simulate the phases of the moon by
having a few days of brightness (full moon) out of the month, and keep
the sleeping place in darkness the rest of the month, you will ovulate
on the light nights.

Is that the one you're refering to, Larry?

Brandy Kurtz
July 11th 03, 04:51 AM
"K.B." > wrote in message nk.net>...
> When can I expect a period? My son will be 3 months next week.
> Kris

Everybody is different when it comes to this. Abby just turned one,
and I still haven't had a period. Ahhhh...Heaven!

Brandy

DGoree
July 11th 03, 06:55 AM
"K.B." wrote,

<<When can I expect a period? My son will be 3 months next week.>>

There is no way to know; everyone is different. Mine came back after 16 months
with #1, 20 months with #2, and 17 months with #3. :-P I was hoping with this
one just to seque right into menopause but no such luck.

Mary Ellen
William (8)
Matthew (6)
Margaret (1)

Sara
July 11th 03, 03:50 PM
Dawn Lawson wrote:

> Sara wrote:
>
> > Larry McMahan wrote:
> >
> > > Her friend's period
> > > returned after 20 months, and then only after using light therapy.
> >
> > Light therapy? Really? Like, therapy involving lights?
>
> If it's the same one I'm familiar with, the theory goes that since women
> are on a moon cycle...

I'm not. Never was. Are (were) you?

--
Sara, still curious

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Dawn Lawson
July 11th 03, 05:25 PM
Sara wrote:

> Dawn Lawson wrote:
>
> > Sara wrote:
> >
> > > Larry McMahan wrote:
> > >
> > > > Her friend's period
> > > > returned after 20 months, and then only after using light therapy.
> > >
> > > Light therapy? Really? Like, therapy involving lights?
> >
> > If it's the same one I'm familiar with, the theory goes that since women
> > are on a moon cycle...
>
> I'm not. Never was. Are (were) you?

"standard" cycles are 28 ish days, like the moon.
We're pretty removed from any natural influences, so it's not unusual not to
be, imo.
I have polycystic ovarian syndrome, not on ANY cycle :-(

Elana Kehoe
July 11th 03, 09:55 PM
Iuil > wrote:

> "Brandy Kurtz" wrote
> > > When can I expect a period? My son will be 3 months next week.
> > > Kris
> >
> > Everybody is different when it comes to this. Abby just turned one,
> > and I still haven't had a period. Ahhhh...Heaven!
> >
>
> Same here. In fact I hadn't had one for 3 months *before* I conceived
> either so I'm 4 days shy of 2 years without seeing AF.

Color me jealous :-). AF returned at 10 months, nice and steady ever
since :-).

E

Iuil
July 11th 03, 09:59 PM
"Elana Kehoe" wrote
> >
> > Same here. In fact I hadn't had one for 3 months *before* I conceived
> > either so I'm 4 days shy of 2 years without seeing AF.
>
> Color me jealous :-). AF returned at 10 months, nice and steady ever
> since :-).
>

Her alter-ego, Lo Kee Ah, made up for it by sticking around for 7 weeks :-(.

Jean


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iphigenia
July 12th 03, 04:56 AM
Brandy Kurtz wrote:
>>
>> Actually I haven't had af since...hmmm...April of 2001. I had a
>> missed miscarriage, and Presto, right away here's Abby! I am going
>> to forget everything...:) I do get a bit crampy soemtimes, around
>> that time, but nothing ever comes of it.

Before mine came back (Gabe was almost 18 months), I used to have a ball
with that at doctors' offices. I got such curious looks when I'd be asked
about my LMP and would unconcernedly report a date over two years earlier.
Best part was that I could then proudly explain that I was breastfeeding.

--
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Elana Kehoe
July 12th 03, 09:51 AM
Iuil > wrote:

> "Elana Kehoe" wrote
> > >
> > > Same here. In fact I hadn't had one for 3 months *before* I conceived
> > > either so I'm 4 days shy of 2 years without seeing AF.
> >
> > Color me jealous :-). AF returned at 10 months, nice and steady ever
> > since :-).
> >
>
> Her alter-ego, Lo Kee Ah, made up for it by sticking around for 7 weeks :-(.

Okay, jealousy gone :-).

E

Sara
July 12th 03, 05:50 PM
Dawn Lawson wrote:

> Sara wrote:
>
> > Dawn Lawson wrote:
> >
> > > Sara wrote:
>
> > > If it's the same one I'm familiar with, the theory goes that since women
> > > are on a moon cycle..
> >
> > I'm not. Never was. Are (were) you?
>
> "standard" cycles are 28 ish days, like the moon.
> We're pretty removed from any natural influences, so it's not unusual not to
> be, imo.

I've heard this before, but I'm skeptical. Do all women in rural areas
-- away from light polution -- menstruate on the same day?

When I've asked my friends about this, the only ones with 28-day
cycles were on the Pill.

--
Sara, accompanied by the baby barnacle

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H Schinske
July 14th 03, 08:11 AM
wrote:

>
>When I've asked my friends about this, the only ones with 28-day
>cycles were on the Pill.
>

I've always had very regular cycles, 27 to 29 days. In fact I've gone months at
a time with my periods always falling on the same day of the week. Among my
female friends (those with whom I've discussed the subject, anyway), I'm the
only one I can think of who has never used hormonal birth control, though I do
have a friend who tried the pill and promptly quit on finding she got nasty
side effects.

--Helen

JoelnCaryn
July 14th 03, 10:10 AM
>>When I've asked my friends about this, the only ones with 28-day
>>cycles were on the Pill.
>>
>
>I've always had very regular cycles, 27 to 29 days. In fact I've gone months
>at
>a time with my periods always falling on the same day of the week. Among my
>female friends (those with whom I've discussed the subject, anyway), I'm the
>only one I can think of who has never used hormonal birth control, though I
>do
>have a friend who tried the pill and promptly quit on finding she got nasty
>side effects.

Same here with the regularity, although I have used the pill a few times. You
would think with a yes-please-all-night-long nursling eating all of about a
tablespoon of solids a day I wouldn't be on a 29-day cycle, but I am, and have
been since January with one slightly longer cycle right at the resumption of
menses.

--
Caryn
mama to Oscar, 10/20/02

Larry McMahan
July 14th 03, 08:07 PM
Dawn Lawson > writes:
: Sara wrote:

:> Larry McMahan wrote:
:>
:> > Her friend's period
:> > returned after 20 months, and then only after using light therapy.
:>
:> Light therapy? Really? Like, therapy involving lights?

: If it's the same one I'm familiar with, the theory goes that since women
: are on a moon cycle, and the light pollution and indoor living make it
: hard to get natural phasing, if you simulate the phases of the moon by
: having a few days of brightness (full moon) out of the month, and keep
: the sleeping place in darkness the rest of the month, you will ovulate
: on the light nights.

: Is that the one you're refering to, Larry?

Very similar.

Larry