My Son Is 9 Months and I Haven't Had a Period in 6 Months??????

Are you breastfeeding? I breastfed and didn't get my period until my son was over a year old. No big deal, and I've always been as regular as clockwork - everything kicked back in as usual when I was done breastfeeding.

Unless you had a boobjob in the past, not having your milk come in is a sign of hormones being majorly out of whack. Add in 1 period in 9 months?

Doctor time.

It could be as simple as dieting (will tank your period), or other forms of stress (new moms don't have stress, do they? ;), or your hormones could be screwy, or you could be pregnant, early onset menopause, oy... the list goes on. Ten or fifteen more of the top of my head. But I couldn't even begin to guess without bloodwork.

The most helpful suggestion is to go to the doctor. Pull and pray leaves a HUGE opportunity to get pregnant again and at home pregnancy tests aren't always accurate. Not having a period for 6 months isn't right, go get checked out.

Call the ob/gyn today and say you want to be seen immediately.

While it's normal for periods to become different -- including much lighter -- after having a baby, it does not seem normal for them to stop altogether. You may be pregnant (as someone posted, at-home tests can be inaccurate) but I do think that if you've tried this many, they likely would have turned up positive by now. See your doctor now and in the meantime, hold off on "pull and pray" until you know what is going on. If you do have something wrong going on, you don't want to end up pregnant as well as having a gynecological problem to deal with, right?

Ask your doctor whether you need birth control pills. That could end up regulating your hormones much better and bringing you back onto a normal cycle, if nothing else is wrong. Birth control pills do more than prevent pregnancy; they can get hormones on a cycle so things are more regular. Mine help prevent me from getting painful fibrocystic cysts in my breasts.

Just see your OBGYN or CNM and see what is going on! Get a blood serum test for pregnancy and an ultrasound if possible. Have you ever seen that show "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant?" Don't let that be you! Find out what is going on!

If you are nursing it might be completely normal to not have your period. I didn't have periods until I stopped nursing when my babies were about a year old. For some women just nursing their baby is plenty of B.C.

I am in the exact same boat- will be 37 in a month. Since I had my daughter- who is now almost 17 mos, my periods are just insanely irregular. I go from having my period every two weeks for 2-3 mos to going more than 4 months without one. The doctor has checked me out, and everything is ok, including my hormone levels. About the only thing you can do to get regular is get on the pill. I didn't opt that route, as I am done with having kids (hubby had a vasectomy) and at my age, I am done with the hormones. If it goes longer than 4 mos, I call the doc and she prescribes something to make me start. She did say that going that long without one can increase the chance of uterine cancer dramatically. And since both my grandmother's had uterine cancer, I don't take any chances.
At our age, it would be more perimenopause than actual menopause. But see your doctor to get checked out.

Are you breastfeeding? When we breastfeed we often don't have a period.

Are you nursing? If you're a nursing mom it's pretty nirmal to have very few periods....

Huh--
I breast fed and my period didn't come back until both my kids were around 17 months. But since you're not breast feeding, I would say your hormones have never balanced out since the pregnancy. You can go to the doctor, or if you'd rather balance them in a natural way I can make some suggestions that worked for me.
J.