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It was April 25, 2007. The day my boobs officially said, “We quit.”
I remember the day because I was breastfeeding my five-month-old daughter (my firstborn) in the midst of some last minute work in preparation for graduation a week later. She pulled away from me, full and satisfied. I looked down and noticed that my breasts fell incredibly light. Not “just got done nursing” light, but “things are never going to be the same” type of light.
And I was right. For the remainder of our breastfeeding journey, they were never the same. Less perky, less round on the top and forming more of a tear-drop shape instead of a circle.
So when I found out I was pregnant shortly after our daughter’s first birthday, I looked forward to the pregnancy hormones giving my boobs a little more fullness again. My husband never said anything until I asked him, point blank, if he noticed my boobs were different. He hesitated.
“They’re softer now,” he said. “A little smaller. But I like ‘em.”
I spent what little free time I had (with two kids under two) trying on different bras—gel-filled, underwire, no underwire, all the so-called “revolutionary” bras. None of them really restored me to what I had prior to my kids.
So I gave up. Decided it wasn’t the end of the world. Found a few bras and shirts that did my chest justice and went about my business.
Did it make me feel less sexy? Yes, initially. But defining my sexiness by the way my boobs looked was something society had conditioned me to feel. Who says that breasts have to be right under the chin in order for a woman to be attractive?
Read the rest of my journey over at MommyNoire.com, where I got some input from plastic surgeons on the real cause of less-perky boobs.
I felt just like you. I even looked into plastic surgery but one of my sisters told me to try push ups- the exercise not the bra :)- and it worked. I’m no scientist but I think the sagging has more to do with our muscle not being worked on more than anything else.
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Gloria is exactly right. It has more to do with the muscle than anything. Though I was born with the small breast gene so they didn’t get bigger than a “b” when I was breastfeeding.
Maybe they sag a little but I’m so happy I was able to feed my little one for 20 months that I haven’t noticed.
I agree Tiffany!! I was happy to have done it for 22months.
I’m a saggy sag sagger. My “girls” were a perky B before. I could go braless… now… runny egg syndrome. It’s ok though. I have great bras
I’m impressed by everyone’s cheerfulness about this. But me.. I hate them. I have a huge hatred for them. I don’t remember what they looked like before but they were not *this.* I’m a a comfortable size C but the sag drive me nuts. I can’t help feel a little pin prick of annoyance at breastfeeding, even though it was wonderful for my daughter. If I had the dough, I’d do plastic surgery. My partner is highly against it but it’s really more for me than anyone else.
I’m afraid that I’m happy about what breastfeeding did to my breasts. They had always been small—they didn’t even get much bigger during pregnancy—but when I started breastfeeding, all of a sudden they were in proportion to the rest of me! And afterwards, they kept some of the size. They may have sagged a little more, but I couldn’t have held more than a pencil under my breast with no hands. Now that I’m twenty years past breastfeeding, they’re sagging a bit more, but I think that’s just age, and I’m cool with that.
Breastfeeding absolutely called my breast to sag, maybe not horribly, but they are way different than they were before. And I didn’t have any of the predispositions mentioned in the study. They sagged because they went from being a size maybe A-sih/B cup before breastfeeding to an E cup while I was breastfeeding and then back down to a B leaving me with a bunch of extra skin and stretch marks. I can’t say that I’m excited about how they look, but I’m okay with them in the right bra. I do think that telling women that breastfeeding doesn’t do anything to your breast is just wrong. I would have breast fed either way, BUT, I wish I had been more prepared for these squishy sandwich bags full of air that used to be my breasts.
My breast are a bit saggy and bigger after 1 child but is not all that bad they are still full…but i worked out after having my only child. Now that im planning my second pregnancy im a little worry how they will turn out….we’ll see
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