As if new mamas don’t have a steep enough learning curve already, one event takes most of us off-guard: that first postpartum period. After what was probably a hiatus of a year or longer, the return of your menstrual cycle isn’t just back to business as usual. In most cases, it’s initially less predictable and stronger than when Aunt Flo used to come calling.
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The biggest factor that affects your period’s return is whether or not you are breastfeeding. «If a woman is not breastfeeding, then the first menses usually returns at six weeks postpartum to three months postpartum,» says Elizabeth Sauter, MD, Fellow of The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Among exclusively breastfeeding mamas, Sauter says it can be harder to predict when menstruation will return in full force: It’s rare for your period to return until at least six months postpartum (at which point you’ve probably introduced some solid food to baby’s diet), but it may not return at all until you are done breastfeeding a year or more postpartum.
(Souce: mother.ly)
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