My boobs are awful

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I'm 20 months in to breastfeeding. Before I got pregnant was a 32 C/D cup. Pregnancy saw me go up to a 34DD. I am now a 34 GG. My boobs just didn't stop growing and are now absolutely enormous. I look down and can't even see my nipples anymore as they point to the floor. I am anxious about what they'll look like once I stop breastfeeding. I am so down about it. I can't wear the clothes I used to love and just hide away under baggy tshirts.

I guess I'm still not used to them. GG really is big for my waist size, and they're not a 'good' big.

Did anyone else experience this after breastfeeding? Should I prepare for them to be awful once I stop?

I've been through this and come out the other side now much better than I feared, but it's taken a while (but I did have 3 children in quick succession and feed each of them for over 2 years). I know exactly what you mean about not being able to wear the clothes you like. The clothes that fitted and were most flattering weren't things I'd have usually chosen, but buying a few bits from Bravissimo that were tailored to fit, like a jacket I could do up but still have a waist, definitely helped me feel better. I could lose weight elsewhere, but it had no impact on my boobs. I can't really remember at what point they started to go down again, but it's a couple of years since I stopped feeding and they're much much smaller than they were, but still bigger than before I was pregnancy, they don't look deflated- don't despair!

Mine ballooned in size with each pregnancy, I formula fed apart from the first few months of my youngest child. I definitely think it’s pregnancy as opposed to breastfeeding.

Mine went from 32C to 36EE, they are as others have said long saggy and empty heavy and droopy at the bottom and empty at the top. They are so huge on my frame that they make me look overweight because of how they fit in clothes.

I utterly detest them I never thought I would be the type to hate my boobs but my last pregnancy really just ruined them, even the midwives in the hospital commented on them ‘your boobs are so long you may struggle, they’re very low aren’t they’ were just some of the lovely comments that cemented my self hatred.

I would recommend the Freya Deco bra for post feeding.

Whoever said you can wear whatever tops with the right bra is bollocks ... 34GG .

Somethings just don't look good on big boobs - I've come to accept it

If you hVe a tiny waist there is no way you are a 34 band. I'm the classic dumpy 50 year old apple and wear 32H.

They look like comedy 70s boobs - that’s the only way I can describe them

^ That's a brilliant description!

I was a 34H after my last baby they were massive and horrible a year and half later I’m a 32E and they look fine again .

@PickAChew is that directed at me? I definitely am a 34. 34 fits perfectly.

I had (if I do say so myself) perfect boobs before getting pregnant. I've been EBFing for six months now and I really don't like them anymore.

My left boob is MASSIVE and my right boob is about two cups sizes smaller. My nipples are starting to point towards the floor. Left boob is really veiny and when I squeeze them together there's a really visible vein that pops out in the middle.

I'm also considering a boob job if they don't sort themselves out once I've had all my babies!

I breast fed DD1 for two years and DD2 for three, mine pretty much went back to what they were, but it took time.

Good fitting bras are the answer.

In get this. Bfing 3 kids from a lovely 34B to a droopy 36DD. I am looking for a strapless bra which holds them up, but I can't find any. If anyone has any ideas... I just dont feel attractive any more with them

Whoever said you can wear whatever tops with the right bra is bollocks ... 34GG

That was me. I wear a 34GG and wear whatever I like, as long as I can get a boob out. Are you calling me a fibber?

Sorry you’re feeling rubbish about your boobs

I don’t have children but am a 28FF (and have been larger of nork). I still wear strappy tops, please try to wear what you fancy. Plunge bras are flattering if you have more volume at the bottom of the breast than the top.

Don’t do anything drastic until at least a year after you stop feeding.

Well theoretically you can wear what you want, when I was an E cup most tops made me look like one of the waitresses in Oktoberfest adverts.

My boobs went quite small and a bit saggier after b feeding after being lovely and plump with all the milk. They'll probably be worse this time around. 😭

I hear you. I was encouraged to breastfeed each of my two boys for a year and now my breasts are ruined. Currently pregnant with my third and they have filled out again so I’m enjoying them while they last. I’m actually angry at myself for having breastfed for so long. I thought I was doing the right thing and now I just feel foolish.

Question for those whose boobs went back to normal post-breastfeeding: How long did it take? Are we talking months or years?

I couldn't BF but my boobs have been huge since having DCs. They just never went back down - although tbf they were always a bit droopy even when I was small breasted and slim.....

My DM breastfed 4 of us and always blamed that on the fact that she had virtually nothing - she often went bra-less when I was growing up because she said we'd taken all her boobs! They weren't pert but were very small.

So I think everyone's different - but I'm not sure you'll ever go back to how you were..... . Sorry.....

Mine were a cup’s before, now d. They are saggier and flatter but I much prefer them, they actually look like boobs father than the tiny pyramids I had previously.

I have been top heavy for most of my adulthood bit post 3 babies I got bigger and saggier and post menopause I have a 32 GG. What I found helped with lifting my boobs so they were less saggy was exercise which tones the chest muscles such as lifting weights. Always going to be top heavy but a well fitting uplifting bra and exercise really helps me feel better.

Pre pregnancies: 32C
After first pregnancy: 32D (didn't breastfeed) lost all volume at the top. Got loads of stretch marks on them which I think is the reason they're more saggy/no volume.
After 2nd pregnancy: while breastfeeding 34E. Then after feeding 32DD.

I would say it just depends on skin elasticity if they go back to normal, mines didn't but they just become a new normal and you learn to accept them. Though I still struggle at times especially when I lean over, a friend once said to me (I imagine she has the same problem lol) that hers are like teabags dangling. That did make me feel slightly better knowing I'm not alone lol!

It took a few years for mine to inflate. Im 52 now and quite happy with mine now but i remember feeling disappointed with them after weaning. My nipples never went flat again though.

They'll settle. My nipples were huge they covered my breast tip I'd large thick purple road map veins all over them.
My youngest is 5 mine are fine no veins nipples returned to a normal size.
Just normal deflation comes with age.
I'm glad you left your ex enjoy your baby give yourself credit for the strength you showed

I miss my boobs!

30b, 32D breastfeeding, now a 30A is too big and my nipples are long and flat. I don't feel at all feminine and it's really limited my clothing options.

I've been breastfeeding for 19 months, I've tried not to think about what they look like. Also, I remember being told to ensure you feed equally from both breasts. To do otherwise could result in one breast being larger than the other. My sil had one significantly larger breast whilst breastfeeding because of this.