So I went and got my boobs measured yesterday. I hadn’t had this done since I was a few months pregnant with Jenson so over a year ago I guess. I thought my bra size must have changed for a couple of reasons: one I have lost some weight so I hoped my chest measurement would have decreased; and due to Jenson’s milk feeds depleting, he usually has one when he first wakes up and very occasionally a comfort suck at bedtime if he doesn’t drop off by himself easily, my boobs have felt and looked a lot smaller as their content is pretty much empty I would think!
Before I fell pregnant with Burton I was a 36B and wore bras with underwiring in and on occasions if I went out I might push the ‘boob’ out and wear a push up/ plunge bra to enhance my assets depending on the top I was wearing. Mind you, I was never comfortable with revealing too much cleavage so I don’t really know why I bought push up bras actually.
Prior to my late 20’s I was a 36A cup and I probably only increased a cup size due to my weight doing the same as I got nearer to 30! Back then although I would have loved slightly bigger boobs, it was great that in the summer or if I went on holiday I could go bra-less and the same applied on nights out with my friends when I wore dresses, e.g., strapless or halter neck styles, I could get away with not wearing a bra.
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Oh how times have changed – I will never be able to go bra-less again! After breast feeding two babies for the first 9 months of their lives during my mid 30’s, has meant that my former fun bags now look more like granny handbags,
and lets face it a lot of them pull shopping bags (on wheels) along behind them lol. I am not complaining it was my choice to breast feed and I am glad I did and certainly would not have contemplated not breast feeding my babies for vanity, and pert breast sake. However, I must accept that unless I wear a bra with good support I am never going to have boobs whose nipples face northwards again.
Anyway, I digressed.
When I was measured for my nursing bra’s with both pregnancies I ended up with 38D ones. So yesterday when I visited a well know high street food and clothing store to be measured, I was genuinely shocked when the woman told me I was now a 36 D !! I asked her if she was sure and she said yes! So I purchased myself a couple of tee shirt bras and one lacy balcony style which was in the sale and today I am wearing a bra which fits me- yay!
However, when I look at my boobs in my bathroom mirror I cannot help but feel my breasts do not look like 36D ones. I mean when I think of D cup boobs I think of those glamour models and celebrities that have them and how their boobs look nothing like mine! I know certain bras can enhance your assets to make them look bigger but page 3 girls aren’t wearing these in their photos. Having googled ‘celebrities with 36D breast’ I have discovered that I share the same boobage as these boobilicious ladies
Now for the purpose of this post I will spare you a photo of my boobs, but I can assure you that mine look nothing like these even if it was freezing cold and I was covered in spray tan!
So I am confused about my size really, but the important thing is, I am now wearing non maternity/ nursing bras again and one that is my correct size – even if I still have my suspicions!
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I am so with you on this one, I last got measure when Tigger was about 6 months old and I was only measuring a size smaller than when my milk boobs were in force. My boobs do not feel or look full like pre-baby boobs so how I measure so big is beyond me. I’m sure that cups sizes have gotten smaller
I know what you mean!! When I got measured after I stopped breast feeding the lady told me I was a 34c. I was like “what?!”, there was nothing there! I am actually going to go again next week n get done again as I’m sure (ok, I wish) I have lost some weight and should be smaller. I used to be an A and can’t used to the boobage!
yaay, go you with the big boobs! I’m a B but when I got measured once I was told that I was a c cup & bought c cup bras….I don’t wear them as there’s too much space in the cup! I maybe a c cup if they were filled but in their current state I’ll stick to a B!
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yeah but thats the thing they don’t look or feel like D cups – not that I have ever touched up any D cup sized boobies before! that is what I was referring to not how big they ‘are’ lol x
Thing is, I reckon boobs spread out a bit and kinda digress to go under your armpits and round the sides…. that’s how they get to be d’s. Mine look nothing like Pamela Anderson’s either, but they seem to measure up to porn star status…… I am soooooooooooo not a porn star!
OMG I love your honesty on this! I never had a big breasts either, but they were mine and I was OK with it. After 5 and a half of breastfeeding and 3 mastitis, the last one really really bad, the doctor told me to stop immediately. What stupid advice was that! I stopped nearly overnight and now my breasts look like a sky slope: going down with little tracks (read stretch marks!) I hate it! Not one stretchmark in my tummy, but my breasts are there to show that yes, I am a mum!
Haha another gr4eat post! Its amazing how much your body changes after having babies and breast feeding xx
Great post! I remember getting properly fitted for my wedding and was shocked to find my 34DDs were actually more like 32F. They went back to normal after Thomas but now I’m breastfeeding Tyler I dread to think what they’ll look like after! Good job I didn’t marry a boob man 😀 xx
When my sister had her first daughter, she had changed for about 4 times. And that’s just during the pregnancy of the first child. She had another one and the story is the same. It really helped that we know someone who knows how to fit bras so that she can buy comfortable ones when she needs new ones.