Sorry, I just got carried away.

Hahaha! I love it! Boobies! Is it even possible to have too many topics on Boobies?

i sort of have a question you can share with me if you want... it's for the bigger ladies out there. Us gals who have to wear two bras when we exercise. I asked a little while ago whether boobs ache the second time you get pregnant or was it just the first... and they said that they do.

My other question is whether they get bigger. And after weaning, what happens size-wise? Like, I used to be a D/DD, i'm now an E/F... will i ever see the single voiced alveolar plosive again?

I was a D prior to El D now I'm a DD and he is still weaning (this last one is bitch!).

So my questions are similar to Bols. Will I ever get my girls back?

Bol, you will not. They will not go back and you'll have National Geographic Boobs.

See the other thread, but mine got relatively huge, compared to what they were before. Also, not the good kind of huge, but the saggy, deflated kind that looks decent in a bra but horrible otherwise.

Bugger.

ok what if i lose weight? Will it be WORSER or BETTERER?

i guess that the 'going down' thing was covered in the last question. Boobies V, whoever that was, i forget already. Stupid mummy-brain. But what about second kid boobs. Does time of weaning make any kind of difference? Or age of mother in question?

The ladies at playgroup make me a little paranoid, kind of, there's a few of them that are only 20 or so, and they don't look at all like they ever had kids. Not us mums that are into our 30's. We all got back. And front. And saddles. Etc etc.

the whole boobies thing keeps me awake at night. WILL I EVER SEE MY FEET AGIN????

That I couldn't tell you, as I'm still about 30 lbs up from having A.

Bol, you should never have to wear two bras while exercising. I know you're in Australia, but there's got to be some way for you to get your hands on a "last resort bra" from Title Nine.

www.titlenine.com

BoL - it is highly doubtful you will ever see your feet again...but you never know!

Second kid boobs for me just followed roughly the same pattern as first kid boobs. Up, then down. But I only changed about three cup sizes, so maybe that's the key.

Wow, it's like nabisco day but with boobies.

I feel fortunate that my boobies seem to have swelled a size while pregnant and nursing and then gone back down to my pre-pregnancy size. The only thing that seems to have permanently changed is that my rib cage expanded, so instead of a 32 I am now a 34.

Why it couldn't have been my breasts instead of my poor stomach, well, that's my wine.

first weaning, second weaning, no size reduction... though no huge increase te 2nd-3rd time around either.

and order a good sports bra that fits... i favour figleaves.co.uk

If you lose weight, it helps. Mine are now relatively perky for a 40 year old who nursed two kids for 12+ months apiece, but it's because I exercise and lost 40 pounds. I was a D before babies, a DD while nursing and now I'm a C/D.

I had relatively small ones before pregnancy and they got huge with both my first and second kid. I started out a 32B and went to a C/D. I had 5 years between my kids and after nursing my first one till he was 22 months, my boobs looked like deflated balloons. They never went back to their perky selves. Same thing happened with second child. Now I have to wear a bra in order for them to look anything other than deflated balloons. I'm skinny, but when I do gain weight it isn't in my boobs but everywhere else. I miss my nursing boobs!

Yeah. I *wish* mine had stayed nursing size. *sigh*

Hah hah hah... in reading this over I realize I meant to put, but that's my "whine." But, um, wine does have something to do with the sorry state of my stomach too.

i'm hoping then that i can do a mommagrrl, i suspect weight is a large part of the problem. Pun incidental.

Also McG, it made perfect sense to me. :)

I'm with you, Violet and Kathy. I big hearted my nursing boobs and I miss them everytime I scoop what is left into my padded bra.

OH man, Lalena. Scoop. That is a too-perfect description. I can't tell if these are tears of laughter, recognition or wistful memories.

I miss my nursing boobs, too. Unfortunately, as soon as I started exercising on a regular basis again - they were the first thing to go. On the upside, they are real, they are perky, and gosh darn it...I like them.

I started out a C. Had the boys and now I'm a D. Deflated a little to a big C little D. Now that I'm pregnant again my boobs look awesome. They are filling the D out nicely. I don't know if I'll get bigger than D but I didn't with my second pregnancy I don't think I will with this one. Ok maybe a D 1/2.

I was a 36 D. After nursing I was a 36HH no matter what my weight was - even after losing much of it.

SO I went to one of LA's many plastic surgeons and had a reduction - insurance even deemed it med necessary b/c they removed so much tissue just to get me to a C. Now I'm 36 C and I'm even perky! I haven't been perky since I was 12, and I didn't appreciate it then.

Never ever thought I'd be going to a plastic surgeon.

Regina - just the opposite here. I had a reduction down to a C cup four years before getting pregnant. I must say, they bounced right back and I'm perkier now than when I was 14, and my kid just turned 6 months old.

Not that I'm bragging. . .

Still waiting to see what happens post nursing... I did read an interesting study once that said that it's the pregnancy that contributes to the inflating and ultimate deflating. And not the length of nursing. I was always pro-nursing anyway, but reading the study did make me think, "Well, if they're going to sag anyway, might as well nurse till one of us is done..."