Accommodations For Your Larger-Than-Life Nursing Breasts: What You Need To Expect And Do
Posted on: 22 April 2019
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Women with smaller chests are ecstatic to discover that they gain several cup sizes during pregnancy and breastfeeding stages, while women with already large breasts are feeling the weight and burden of even larger breasts. Regardless of your cup size before pregnancy, you will have to make several accommodations both during pregnancy and after your child is born for your newly enlarged breasts.
If You Are Nursing, You Need Removable Bra Cups
All of your pretty, silky, and lacey pre-pregnancy bras are going to be stuck in the back of your drawer for two years. For the first nine months of pregnancy, none of your bras are going to fit anymore as your breasts become larger and larger to support milk production. After giving birth, your old bras will not work for the next year (at a minimum) because you will need tops and bras that fold down or lift up to expose a breast and feed the baby. Ergo, you will need at least three bras with removable cups for nursing. The cups can unsnap from the top, slide sideways and down, or unhook completely from the straps.
You Will Need a Lot of Strap Support
The weight of pregnancy breasts can double during your three trimesters. Straps on pregnancy and nursing bras are a lot thicker and wider to help support all of the swollen and extra breast tissue. You need those straps for the extra support, but you also need them to be adjustable because not every set of pregnant/nursing breasts are the same weight or size. You will need to be fitted for your pregnancy/nursing bras sometime in the second trimester to make sure the straps are providing adequate support.
You May Need Back Support Too
Large-breasted women who become pregnant often find that their breasts create an immense strain on their upper backs, shoulders, and neck as they strain to support the burdening weight of pregnant/nursing breasts. If this describes your situation, or if your neck, back, and shoulders are in constant pain, find pregnancy/nursing bras that have built-in extra support for your back. These bras will make you feel a little better, and some come in a few colors you will enjoy, such as white, pink, or blue breastfeeding bras with back bracing materials. Contact BEHR BRAS to see what breastfeeding bra options are available to you.
A Word about Weaning Bras
Weaning is the process whereby you wean your baby off of your breasts and onto formula or cow's milk. Weaning bras continue to support your heavy breasts, but they also have little pockets in which you can insert little ice packs to cool the hotly inflamed and rock-hard painful breast tissue that results during weaning. You will definitely find such bras useful for the first week after your baby is no longer breastfeeding.