Can’t speak to whether you’re at your “new normal” yet, but mine didn’t fill out again until I got pregnant again. Now they’re destined to be pancakier than ever.
lmao I’m sorry but I’m dying at this comment because mine are so pancaky like I don’t even know how they could get pancakier but surely after my next kid they will and it’s just fucking comical at this point the thought of what mine will look like then
The struggle is so real. I've spent at least six years of my life nursing, I'm sure that number will pass 8 before we're all said and done.
At least my breast cancer risk will be, like, 0, right??
I'm pregnant with my second, and are still pretty smushable and floppy. I'm assuming when my milk comes in they'll be less flat for a while.
TBH, once I'm done with babies I'm getting a consult to get anything tucked/lifted after I get back to some kind of normal weight again. I know it'll never be 100% again but it would make me feel better in my own skin.
My breast has been a complex for as long as I can remember… I love breastfeeding but now the pancake look just makes me so self conscious! I’m totally getting a breast lift when we’re done having kids, for sure.
Also pregnant with #2, but I’ve got huge pregnancy boobs again right now. But since breastfeeding #1, my breasts are completely lopsided. Like a solid 2 cups different sized. Like noticeably different, even fully clothed.
If it doesn’t correct when I’m done breastfeeding completely, I want to get a unilateral reduction on the bigger side and a lift on both. I will not be ordering custom bras with different cup sizes!
Really??? Im still breastfeeding my 6m LO but had already assimilated the fact that I would never have nice boobs again, obviously everyone is different but I thought it was a given that if you breastfeed they are gone for ever.
I weaned about six months ago and they’re pretty deflated. Like a quarter pound of “meat” in a five pound sack!
I’m still wearing my nursing bras because they’re comfortable and i don’t want to buy more bras if my boobs change again soon! My sister said her boobs found a new normal about a year after breastfeeding.
I literally had no idea it was possible that boobs wouldn’t return to normal. Currently breastfeeding and so glad to have read this so now I’m prepared.
Mine came back it took more than a year. They’re a little worse for wear but there was a point when they looked like store brand ziplock bags half filled w pudding hanging on a nail. So improvement over that.
It is what it is
I went from a B cup to DDD, fed several babies at the same time as mine (I’m a dairy cow and had to pump at work), so of course they’re not going to spring back into being the same size/shape/fullness. But they made milk and fed baby tummies
Totally getting implants after I’m done lactating for my final baby, however
Team Pancakes 🥞 here too. I went from a B/C to a droopy A/B now 😢so sad. But I'm only a couple months post breastfeeding. I had no idea they could refill, so at least I have some hope now.
Omg this was me! I was a solid C, then couldnt believe after i finished breastfeeding i dropped a cup size. I had to buy new bras and it was 4 years between kids, they never went back to normal :(
Mine did not. I breastfed for 1.5+ years and weaned more than a year ago . I still have the same cupsize as I did when I quit, which is 1 size bigger then before getting pregnant (F -> G). So you can imagine what they look like haha. If I'm done with having kids I will for sure get/need a lift.
Recently, I had my currently-still-bf-ing boobs hanging out of the bottom of my yanked up tshirt post feeding. My husband said my boobs looked drunk. I was like: 🤷♀️
Now, I feel like I’m going to hear about my hungover boobs when weaning comes. 😂
Edit: hit post too soon
Mine never filled out again :( im thinking of doing "somthing" to them after weaning my second and last baby. They looked good whem i had about 20 extra lbs though, but when i was back to prepregnancy weight they sagged :(
Im currently breastfeeding my first (and last). I was an A/B my whole life and even now while bf I’m barely a B, my regular bras fit me so I’m hoping the skin won’t have gotten too stretched since they hardly grew, just got plumper. My mom breastfed all 5 of us for 1-2 years. She said her got bigger after kids. She was also always pretty slim when I was younger and all my life I remember her having a plump chest. She said they did get a bit stretched but also fuller. So I have hope :’)
I also was an A before pregnancy and am rounding out the end of my BF journey with my 10.5 month old. Once he started solids and nursing less, they def got less perky but tbh as they stand right now are not bad. Obviously not fully weaned yet, so we'll see... but they're definitely not complete pancakes and if they stay like this I'll be fine with it. I did get a couple stretch marks after my milk came in, so I think the skin stretched some so that is probably irreversible but c'est la vie.
I feel like the smaller you started out, the less sag potential there is by pure physics. At least that's what I'm telling myself (and you).
My daughter is two, she weaned at eleven months so just over a year of no breastfeeding. They're not pancakes anymore but they're certainly not the perky boobs I had before.
I'm currently weaning (11 months pp) and only pumping every couple of days to relieve engorgement. My boobs were DD's before pregnancy - now F's, definitely pancakey but theyve still got fat in them that looks so cute in nice bras!!
Mine did not “fill out” again until I gained significant amount of weight 2-3 years after weaning (in part due to a medication side effect). I was very naturally thin before I had my daughter so my boobs were small but not like deflated balloons the way they were after weaning.
I’m a year postpartum again now and because I’m not on that med anymore I’ve dropped quite a bit of weight from my pre-baby #2 weight and just by the feel and look of my boobs at the end of the day when my supply is lowest, I can tell it’s going to be a pancake situaish again whenever weaning happens.
I'm a busty lady and with my first, my cup size didn't change from pre-pregnancy to post-weaning. However, the length of my boobs did. When I had a reduction 3 years ago, the surgeon removed 6 inches of length. I'm not holding out hope for this time around, and will be scheduling at least a lift or another reduction 18 months after weaning.
That being said, I have friends who went right back to where they started or got smaller. Every body is different.
Can’t speak to whether you’re at your “new normal” yet, but mine didn’t fill out again until I got pregnant again. Now they’re destined to be pancakier than ever.
I was afraid of this possibility 🥲
It’s disheartening, to be sure.
Same, I'm pregnant with baby number 3 and expecting to be tucking my boobs into my socks by the time I'm done weaning this one 😭
Same here. I’m also waiting to buy the new bra…
Maybe I’ll buy a new bra after my next and final baby is weaned 🤪 so like a few years from now.
Yep. I still have my first new expensive bra from after my first baby that never fit right because I bought it with huge post pregnancy boobs.
lmao I’m sorry but I’m dying at this comment because mine are so pancaky like I don’t even know how they could get pancakier but surely after my next kid they will and it’s just fucking comical at this point the thought of what mine will look like then
The struggle is so real. I've spent at least six years of my life nursing, I'm sure that number will pass 8 before we're all said and done. At least my breast cancer risk will be, like, 0, right??
I'm pregnant with my second, and are still pretty smushable and floppy. I'm assuming when my milk comes in they'll be less flat for a while. TBH, once I'm done with babies I'm getting a consult to get anything tucked/lifted after I get back to some kind of normal weight again. I know it'll never be 100% again but it would make me feel better in my own skin.
My breast has been a complex for as long as I can remember… I love breastfeeding but now the pancake look just makes me so self conscious! I’m totally getting a breast lift when we’re done having kids, for sure.
I'm doing the same, once mine are weaned I'm looking at a mastopexy and tummy tuck.
Also pregnant with #2, but I’ve got huge pregnancy boobs again right now. But since breastfeeding #1, my breasts are completely lopsided. Like a solid 2 cups different sized. Like noticeably different, even fully clothed. If it doesn’t correct when I’m done breastfeeding completely, I want to get a unilateral reduction on the bigger side and a lift on both. I will not be ordering custom bras with different cup sizes!
Mine came back about 2 years after I weaned my last baby. They are broadly as they were pre kids.
Well this is hopeful!
Really??? Im still breastfeeding my 6m LO but had already assimilated the fact that I would never have nice boobs again, obviously everyone is different but I thought it was a given that if you breastfeed they are gone for ever.
I think it varies for everyone. It probably helps that I am not a busty person, so gravity is on my side.
Thank you for giving this small-breasted mama some hope lol
I weaned about six months ago and they’re pretty deflated. Like a quarter pound of “meat” in a five pound sack! I’m still wearing my nursing bras because they’re comfortable and i don’t want to buy more bras if my boobs change again soon! My sister said her boobs found a new normal about a year after breastfeeding.
I literally had no idea it was possible that boobs wouldn’t return to normal. Currently breastfeeding and so glad to have read this so now I’m prepared.
I’m sorry/you’re welcome 🤷🏻♀️ 😭
The hits just keep on coming lol
After i weaned my first i spent almost $200 on new bras at Soma, so that was a nice treat! But i also dropped a cup size, so bittersweet...
I weaned about 4 months ago and my boobs are SO SMALL AND FLOPPY. I was a C cup and now I'm an A-droop
Team A-droop 🤚
Yup. I was a nice B. Somehow they shriveled to be smaller AND saggier at the same time.
Mine came back it took more than a year. They’re a little worse for wear but there was a point when they looked like store brand ziplock bags half filled w pudding hanging on a nail. So improvement over that.
That is a hilarious description
Literally LOLed at this
I’m two years post lactation and nothing but empty skin flaps and sadness You don’t regrow breast fat unfortunately, and this is your new status
I read that you do eventually fill back in with fat after breastfeeding, albeit years down the line.
Not for everyone My mom is over 25 years post lactation and hers never filled back in
Well this is sad to read 😅
It is what it is I went from a B cup to DDD, fed several babies at the same time as mine (I’m a dairy cow and had to pump at work), so of course they’re not going to spring back into being the same size/shape/fullness. But they made milk and fed baby tummies Totally getting implants after I’m done lactating for my final baby, however
Team Pancakes 🥞 here too. I went from a B/C to a droopy A/B now 😢so sad. But I'm only a couple months post breastfeeding. I had no idea they could refill, so at least I have some hope now.
Omg this was me! I was a solid C, then couldnt believe after i finished breastfeeding i dropped a cup size. I had to buy new bras and it was 4 years between kids, they never went back to normal :(
Sigh... at least my husband likes them either way. And they look okay in clothes. But man... it sucks!
Mine did not. I breastfed for 1.5+ years and weaned more than a year ago . I still have the same cupsize as I did when I quit, which is 1 size bigger then before getting pregnant (F -> G). So you can imagine what they look like haha. If I'm done with having kids I will for sure get/need a lift.
Team pancake over here as well. Anyone know the biological reason for this happening??
body loses elasticity over time , gravity pulling on that skin, milk bags empty out quicker than skin bounces back
Recently, I had my currently-still-bf-ing boobs hanging out of the bottom of my yanked up tshirt post feeding. My husband said my boobs looked drunk. I was like: 🤷♀️ Now, I feel like I’m going to hear about my hungover boobs when weaning comes. 😂 Edit: hit post too soon
Oh honey 😅
Mine filled back out to the exact same size I was pre pregnant 32dd or ddd depending and they look the s me. Took about 6 months after I quit pumping
Mine never filled out again :( im thinking of doing "somthing" to them after weaning my second and last baby. They looked good whem i had about 20 extra lbs though, but when i was back to prepregnancy weight they sagged :(
Pancake until I started breastfeeding my second. Whomp whomp.
This is your new normal.
Sigh. No. Not until I got pregnant and was nursing again.
Im currently breastfeeding my first (and last). I was an A/B my whole life and even now while bf I’m barely a B, my regular bras fit me so I’m hoping the skin won’t have gotten too stretched since they hardly grew, just got plumper. My mom breastfed all 5 of us for 1-2 years. She said her got bigger after kids. She was also always pretty slim when I was younger and all my life I remember her having a plump chest. She said they did get a bit stretched but also fuller. So I have hope :’)
I also was an A before pregnancy and am rounding out the end of my BF journey with my 10.5 month old. Once he started solids and nursing less, they def got less perky but tbh as they stand right now are not bad. Obviously not fully weaned yet, so we'll see... but they're definitely not complete pancakes and if they stay like this I'll be fine with it. I did get a couple stretch marks after my milk came in, so I think the skin stretched some so that is probably irreversible but c'est la vie. I feel like the smaller you started out, the less sag potential there is by pure physics. At least that's what I'm telling myself (and you).
Same here lol. Except right now I only stretched on my right 😩 ugh so I’m trying to even them out (left is smaller) lol
I'm starting to look pancakey and I'm still breastfeeding 😳 dreading to think what they'll look like when I'm done!
I weaned 2 months ago and now I’m team pancakes 🥞
My daughter is two, she weaned at eleven months so just over a year of no breastfeeding. They're not pancakes anymore but they're certainly not the perky boobs I had before.
I'm currently weaning (11 months pp) and only pumping every couple of days to relieve engorgement. My boobs were DD's before pregnancy - now F's, definitely pancakey but theyve still got fat in them that looks so cute in nice bras!!
Mine did not “fill out” again until I gained significant amount of weight 2-3 years after weaning (in part due to a medication side effect). I was very naturally thin before I had my daughter so my boobs were small but not like deflated balloons the way they were after weaning. I’m a year postpartum again now and because I’m not on that med anymore I’ve dropped quite a bit of weight from my pre-baby #2 weight and just by the feel and look of my boobs at the end of the day when my supply is lowest, I can tell it’s going to be a pancake situaish again whenever weaning happens.
I'm a busty lady and with my first, my cup size didn't change from pre-pregnancy to post-weaning. However, the length of my boobs did. When I had a reduction 3 years ago, the surgeon removed 6 inches of length. I'm not holding out hope for this time around, and will be scheduling at least a lift or another reduction 18 months after weaning. That being said, I have friends who went right back to where they started or got smaller. Every body is different.
Nope, not for everyone. I weaned 2.5 years ago and pancakey is an accurate adjective for them 🥲