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Original poster

I'm tandem feeding and my boobs are now so big they are applying for their own postcode and right to vote!

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whomovedmychocolate · 02/10/2008 22:16

I'm not a large person generally, having two kids has made me slightly fatter but not so much - I still have a tiny waist (yeah I know I'm a lucky cow but you should see the scars from all the surgery [wink).

With DD my boobs went up to a 34DD and I felt huge - my waist was 25 inches and I looked pneumatic.

Yesterday I went to get measured as I had the 'second pair free' effect due to a too tight bra and they are now 34G

It's a special order FFS - I didn't even know you could get bras that big!

And I'm still making about half a pint extra a day which just dribbles out into breast shells. The SCBU is happy, me, not so much!

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CantSleepWontSleep · 02/10/2008 22:19

Some of us are a H cup pre-pregnancy you know, let alone when we start tandem feeding next week .

FanjolinaJolly · 02/10/2008 22:19

I have ROFL at your thread title.Fab.

I am very at your g,I am flat as proverbial pancake.

Hope your LO is OK,have you had a preemie?

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whomovedmychocolate · 02/10/2008 22:20

Would gladly swop for flat puppies.

LO is now 11 weeks 18 pounds and thriving thanks. DD is 2 in a few weeks.

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whomovedmychocolate · 02/10/2008 22:21

CSWS - well the good news is that when the milk shoots out at high speed and hits your hair it does make it glossier (you'll understand in a few weeks!)

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EyeballsintheSky · 02/10/2008 22:21

34G. God I'd better start paying council tax for mine then! And I'm not pg or feeding...just eating!

pinkspottywellies · 02/10/2008 22:25

Oh my goodness DD was 11 months before she got to 18lb!! That's some good stuff you've been feeding him!
I've dropped from 34G to a 32G since I've been pg this time

GreenMonkies · 02/10/2008 22:28

Aww, WMMC, I feel your pain!

I was a 32DD pre-pregnancy, and was a 32G by the time I was 9 weeks pregnant. And I stayed that size until DD1 was about 2, then of course I got pregnant with DD2 and went back up to a G cup again within weeks. DD2 is now 2 and a bit and I have shrunk down to a 32F, perhaps in a year or two I might be an E, maybe, one day I might be a DD again.... I have a small waist and relatively narrow hips, so I am a bit top heavy too!

The leaking will stop, and the balloons will deflate a bit. Soon, eventually, I promise!

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whomovedmychocolate · 02/10/2008 22:34

Greenmonkies - it took 11 months for the leaking to stop with DD mind you it does come out in a very impressive way, I have sprayed the cat, DH and at one point a shopping trolley in Sainsburys (was feeding DS in the car park and the window was open)

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cantpickyourfamily · 02/10/2008 22:41

I am also sooooo jealous I stopped feeding dd after 14months and they are sacks of skin with nothing in... I hate them....

GreenMonkies · 02/10/2008 23:01

WMMC, I leaked for about 11 months with DD1, but it stopped long before that with DD2 (also tandem feeding). I didn't have to wear breastpads when I went back to work at 6 months with DD2, so you might find you don't leak as long this time either.

You can hope......

suwoo · 02/10/2008 23:05

I was 19 with a 24 inch waist and 30HH boobs.............before I had them reduced

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whomovedmychocolate · 03/10/2008 10:04

CPYF - Poor you - it's almost worth having another baby for the free boob upgrade isn't it?

Suwoo - you poor thing you must have had awful backache.

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suwoo · 03/10/2008 11:36

I didn't actually wholoved, but I had a lot of 'ishoos' though.

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whomovedmychocolate · 03/10/2008 18:42

Suwoo - did it involve having to shoo away several hundred ogling blokes by chance?

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suwoo · 03/10/2008 19:02

Yeah it did actually. Was a 30E at 14, so had years of it. Even was groped in the street by a stranger once .

luckylady74 · 03/10/2008 19:05

I fed twins and went up from a 34a to a 34b - so how is that fair?

DeJaVous · 03/10/2008 19:18

ROLF at the title

Where were you measured? TBH if you are a small build (25 inch waist) then you are probably actually a 32H or a 30HH. Unless you've got a huuuuuuuge rib cage in proportion to your waist that is...

What do you actually measure round your ribs, directly under your boobs?

'tis really important when your norks get massive that the strain is taken by the band rather than the shoulder straps, otherwise you'll get nasty back ache.

TinkerBellesMum · 03/10/2008 19:18

What CantSleepWontSleep said!

I was in hospital with someone who was pumping for her toddler, she could pump four bottles in 15 minutes (2 a side) on the unit and her boobs were quite literally down to her waist! I met her in outpatients a few months later and she had fairly normal sized breasts by then.

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whomovedmychocolate · 03/10/2008 20:39

DeJaVous - good old M&S - under bust I'm about 30inches (I had a baby 11 weeks ago so I'm still a bit fat!

Well hence getting remeasured, I was getting dents in my shoulders and dents diagonally across my boobs where my bra was creating four small mountains on my chest.

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BouncingTurtle · 03/10/2008 20:47

I did not rate M&S's bra fitting service they measured me as a 40F, got remeasured by an NCT trained bra fitter, who measured me as a 36H!!
Got myself a new bra (in the correct size), much more comfy and minus the monoboob affect the M&S bra gave me...

TinkerBellesMum · 03/10/2008 20:47

Get yourself to Bravissimo for a proper measure and vow never to step into M&S again! That's appauling measurement! You should be a 30 back and erm... HH or J cup.

DeJaVous · 03/10/2008 20:53

M&S can not fit bras. They are famously crap at it, in fact.

TinkerBellesMums is very probably spot on when she says a 30 HH or J. The grooves in the shoulders are the trademark of years or bras too big in the band.

Actually IMO/IME they make the same basic mistake with everyone: add 4 inches to your rib measurement (WHY?) and take it from there

DeJaVous · 03/10/2008 20:54

...M&S make the same basic mistake...

TinkerBellesMum · 03/10/2008 20:56

DeJaVous it comes from the days when bra makers didn't add any give into straps. There was an industry wide restandard so that you no longer need to add the extra on.

DeJaVous · 03/10/2008 20:58

I know, but that was aaaaaaaaaaages ago. M&S claim to be a respectable mordern(ish) establishment

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