Boobs - The Truth

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Is it true that it is being pregnant that ruins your boobs not breast feeding.

Comments from both breast and bottle feeders. How are your boobs post children?

I am still breast feeding twice a day, dd is 8 months old. Mine are decidely more floppy than they were before this whole baby making began.

It's a long time since I wrote about this so some details may be wrong, but it is true that all the structural changes to the breast happen during pregnancy. Your breasts are ready to produce colostrum from around 16 weeks. Also, the Coopers Ligaments that hold the breast in place soften (just as all the ligaments in the body do) during pregancy because of hormonal changes designed to make birth possible. So that accounts for the sagging. But as for long term, well I doubt that 80 year old nuns have perky breasts. We'll all droop in the end.

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I breastfed and was fine afterwards too. Just around 2stone heavier (pregnancy, not breastfeeding), which makes a difference to your whole body.

80 year old nuns

I breastfed 4 and it did take a couple of years till the fat was replaced. Just after stopping feeding they did feel 'empty' if you like. But now they are bigger than they ever were. Darkened nipples back to pink (almost virginal )

It is definately pregnancy that causes the saggy changes and poorly supporting bras. I am very happy with my boobs and so is DH

well then i suppose i can take comfort in the fact that at least my body has returned to its pre-pregnancy shape & weight. i do really miss my breasts though. at least with your body there's exercise and all those toniong treatements... and when i take my bra off is total shock &horror

Aloha
other people's fat migrates to find a nice warm home in my trousers.

I have this problem and I'm not Pg.

I haven't read all this thread but this is my experience. I've breastfed for over four years in total and whilst my boobs aren't as perky as a nubile teenager's, I don't think they're bad at all. I certainly wouldn't consider them in need of a boob job and they don't dangle or flap in the breeze! Ime, it takes a good few months, post-breastfeeding, for them to settle down in non-lacating mode. Hth!

I've got a great pair of tits and bf #3 till he was two and a half

AM currently BF DD (5 months) having BF DS till 6 months. My boobs used to be lovely - quite large, plumptious, and relatively perky (as perky as you can be at 32E!). I know I am still feeing so the changes aren;t over, but currently they are 32H, point straight down without a bra, feel quite floppy (when not full of milk), and I am trying not to think too much about what they'll look like when I've finished BF. Suspect it will not be pretty. I know I'm vain but I am gutted by this as they were my best feature!

Man Alive!!! Im gutted to be honest with you! I came on here to seek advice. My boobs before I was pregnant were quite big but quite nice! I stopped breastfeeding 3 months ago when my DS was 7 months old. My boobs are now empty and really...soft I suppose??
Are you all telling me that there is NOTHING I can do to get them back other than getting pregnant again??????

Charlster.. just wait a bit they bounce back in the end.

I have only breast fed from one boob due to arm problems and they are both as saggy....

mine have always bounced back, extended breast feeding and always wearing a good bra seem to work for me. i'm nearly 40 and looking at other women my age,they're a lot less further south than theirs ,but then again, I've always had large norks , so they went up from a G cup to a J - I suspect the damage is greater if you go from molehills to mountains!

I too was looking for reassurance - having just decided to finish b/f my DS2 at 17 months.... my DP says my breasts went a bit cubeoid (not sure if thats even a word) when I stopped feeding DS1 at 10 months old.

I liked my little pert breats before and always felt the wouldn't go too saggy but having gone up to a 36c from a 34b loosing them feels like a shame.

Oh well only on day 3 so will wait and see.

breasts not breats

I was under the impression from what I have read about this that it's being pregnant that changes the breast tissue, breastfeeding or not.

I found mine extremely soft and flat after finishing bfing (nearly 4 years of it)
after a few months and putting back on a bit of weight, they were kind of back to normal - well I mean normal for a 35 year old woman who's had kids
they aren't going to look the same as before, probably
it doesn't mean they will look BAD

OMG, this thread is 4 years old! I was wwondering why GDG changed her name back ro her old one!

charlster was obviously searching for reassurance. It's one of those perennial debates, methinks!

Idunno what ruins means.Time ruins them I suppose. Breast feeding had certainly made them more eroginous (sp? - cannot be arse to check) I am a much miore erotic creature and my breasts are much more a part of this that pre breast feeding. It's all part fo the 'whole woman' thing for me - we are very lucjy todat I think - much lucier then our grandmothers for instance.

But post menopause, things will change again so I really wany to make th most fo them!

I tis really hitting me now that this is it - eveery day wasted is a day lost forever