Mary writes;
"I don't automatically assume they aren't breastfeeding "properly"
as I have
seen this *too* many times, in women who are breastfeeding quite
often, and
not supplementing."

With my second, I was nursing "correctly".  She slept through the
night ONCE at 2 months of age.  (I rushed to her when I woke and
realized how much time had passed, panicked that I would find she
had succomed to SDIS!)  Two weks later my periods were back.  She
didn't sleep that long again for many, many months, but the periods
stayed.  I was always so regular I could literally set my watch by
when it would start (10 AM on Friday AM every 28 days-I kid you
not!)  If it didn't start at that time I was either pregnant or VERY
ill (or in menopause)!  I always assumed that with such regularity,
it took less of a upset in the the hormone balance to turn my system
on.  I was always jealous of those women who gave bottles, coaxed
baby to "sleep through", used pacifiers a lot etc. who went for many
months without their cycles returning.

Has anyone else seen a correlation between how regular a woman has
been and how quickly her periods return any time baby "misses" a
nursing or the natural balance is upset even a little?

Winnie

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