So, I'm not exactly sure what motivated me to write this but I feel like it needs to be said. When I was going through this I googled and googled but couldn't find any helpful advice so I am going to tell my story in the hope that someone will be helped by it some day.
April 2009 - September 2009 : trying to get pregnant, getting my period as usual
October 2009 - July 2010 : pregnant, not getting my period (obviously)
July 2010 - March 2011 : breastfeeding, still not getting my period
I went back on low-dose birth control at 6 weeks post-partum, just to be safe. I had read in books and on the internet that it was possible to resume my cycle while I was breastfeeding, especially once I started to wean Luke. Even when we were down to only one feeding a day, I was still period-free.
March 2011 - May 2011 : no longer breastfeeding, but still no period
In April I posted a nasty little
April Fool's Day joke. Of course several people said that I was tempting fate and would probably get pregnant again right away, whether I wanted to or not. The joke started to seem not so funny when I got to week 4 of my birth control pack and still didn't get a period. I silently panicked for a few days before I told Steven what was up. I assumed he would told me to stop being paranoid. Instead he suggested I buy a pregnancy test, so that's when my panicking doubled. I peed on the stick and, thank goodness, it was negative. I started googling and all my results suggested I was pregnant or had some sort of horrible disease.
I called my midwife and she told me it is uncommon to get a period while taking low-dose birth control. She also said I was supposed to have switched to regular birth control once I stopped breastfeeding.
Um, that information would have been useful a long time ago. I switched to regular birth control and kept my fingers crossed.
May 2011 : I got my period. YAY!
Thanks to my new birth control, I got my period as scheduled and now I know for an absolute fact that I'm not pregnant. I don't think I've ever been this relieved to get my period. Yes, I would welcome any all children sent my way but this really isn't the right time for us.
So that's my not-very-dramatic story about my missing period. Like I said, I needed this information several months ago and couldn't find it, so I want to put it out there in case someone else is in my situation.
Hoover Dam, with Daddy
sink bath at Mama Hubal's house
NC State track suit, ACC tourney weekend
Mr Mysterious
afternoon at the neighborhood park
with my Grandmama and Granddaddy
Luke's first Merlefest, with my Dad
eating ice cream with Nana and Papa Bruce
his preferred sleeping position
standing on his own and rockin' some seersucker shorts
posing with his bunny
the life behind bars
"riding" his dinosaur walker/scooter
backyard cutie
post-bath smiles
