Me too.  Exactly the same experience.  I figured it was (a) birth or (b)
advancing age.  Never occured to me to blame it on nursing for 5 years.  It is
still happening, and total weaning was nearly 2 years ago.  And yes, it is an
advantage to have a day or so's warning before the floodgates open, as it were.

On 11 Apr 99, at 11:12, Diane Wiessinger wrote:

> > Since her periods came
> >back at 6 months pp (exclusively bf), she's been having a
> >premenstrual discharge.  It ranges from yucky brown to more like
> >regular flow and eventually transforms into the actual menstrual flow.
> >...she's blaming it on the breastfeeding, so weaning would solve the
> problem, right?
>
> After periods returned w/ my last baby, they were preceded by a couple
> days of what you describe.  I guess it's all in how you look at it. *I*
> counted myself lucky to have a private advance warning of impending
> periods - no calendar watching required.  It continued *for some years*
> after total weaning, and eventually stopped.  I assumed it was related to
> birth, not breastfeeding, and let it go at that, as did my dr.  Point out
> the advantages to her!
>
> Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL  Ithaca, NY
>

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