Comments on: Sagging breasts? What’s to blame? http://www.phdinparenting.com/2010/04/04/sagging-breasts-whats-to-blame/ ...exploring the art and science of parenting Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:24:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Hailanana http://www.phdinparenting.com/2010/04/04/sagging-breasts-whats-to-blame/#comment-226816 Hailanana Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:23:04 +0000 http://www.phdinparenting.com/?p=4161#comment-226816 Hello all, I just came across this and wanted to say: Regardless of race, skin color etc. your breasts are going to sag as you get older. I have five children, and each I've breastfed. At my age, my breasts look just as perky, (or saggy) as any other woman my age. True, my ladies aren't what they used to be, but who keeps perky teen boobies forever anyways? Ladies: don't let societal pressures to maintain "the perfect breast" effect your decision to breast feed. Hello all,
I just came across this and wanted to say: Regardless of race, skin color etc. your breasts are going to sag as you get older. I have five children, and each I’ve breastfed. At my age, my breasts look just as perky, (or saggy) as any other woman my age. True, my ladies aren’t what they used to be, but who keeps perky teen boobies forever anyways? Ladies: don’t let societal pressures to maintain “the perfect breast” effect your decision to breast feed.

]]> By: Sunday Surf, April 10 2011 http://www.phdinparenting.com/2010/04/04/sagging-breasts-whats-to-blame/#comment-120107 Sunday Surf, April 10 2011 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:17:55 +0000 http://www.phdinparenting.com/?p=4161#comment-120107 [...] Sagging breasts? What’s to blame? [...] [...] Sagging breasts? What’s to blame? [...]

]]> By: Lorette Lavine http://www.phdinparenting.com/2010/04/04/sagging-breasts-whats-to-blame/#comment-119577 Lorette Lavine Sat, 09 Apr 2011 12:30:41 +0000 http://www.phdinparenting.com/?p=4161#comment-119577 This was so interesting...as a nurse, I have found no matter what I tell moms about sagging breasts and breastfeeding ...they believe, friends and other women's experiences instead. There might be another factor...some women have more dense breast tissue than others hence perkier breasts for a longer time...dense breast tissue makes mammography trickier because it is harder to see abnormalities...fat tissue sags more. I believe that this difference in breast tissue is more due to heredity than any exercise etc. So there might be a relationship between what kind of dominant breast tissue that a woman has and how much her breasts 'sag' after she has been pregnant. My comments are not based on my scientific readings but from from my work experience...I wish that I had some resources to give you but I guess experience counts for something. Thanks for this post. This was so interesting…as a nurse, I have found no matter what I tell moms about sagging breasts and breastfeeding …they believe, friends and other women’s experiences instead.
There might be another factor…some women have more dense breast tissue than others hence perkier breasts for a longer time…dense breast tissue makes mammography trickier because it is harder to see abnormalities…fat tissue sags more. I believe that this difference in breast tissue is more due to heredity than any exercise etc.
So there might be a relationship between what kind of dominant breast tissue that a woman has and how much her breasts ‘sag’ after she has been pregnant.
My comments are not based on my scientific readings but from from my work experience…I wish that I had some resources to give you but I guess experience counts for something.
Thanks for this post.

]]> By: Breastfeeding Won’t Wreck Your Rack! http://www.phdinparenting.com/2010/04/04/sagging-breasts-whats-to-blame/#comment-100069 Breastfeeding Won’t Wreck Your Rack! Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:08:21 +0000 http://www.phdinparenting.com/?p=4161#comment-100069 [...] Devoting a gallery to showing breasts that look good post-breastfeeding implies that breastfeeding impacts the aesthetic of breasts. It does not. (Though as a friend pointed out, pathological engorgement can cause stretch marks, but that’s not the normal, physiological engorgement most moms go through).  Research shows that breast aesthetics change during pregnancy (likely due to atrophy of the Cooper’s Ligaments).  So, by the time you HAVE the baby, the damage is done.  Breastfeeding?  Not the culprit. [...] [...] Devoting a gallery to showing breasts that look good post-breastfeeding implies that breastfeeding impacts the aesthetic of breasts. It does not. (Though as a friend pointed out, pathological engorgement can cause stretch marks, but that’s not the normal, physiological engorgement most moms go through).  Research shows that breast aesthetics change during pregnancy (likely due to atrophy of the Cooper’s Ligaments).  So, by the time you HAVE the baby, the damage is done.  Breastfeeding?  Not the culprit. [...]

]]> By: Italy in the News... | The Italian Dyes http://www.phdinparenting.com/2010/04/04/sagging-breasts-whats-to-blame/#comment-91657 Italy in the News... | The Italian Dyes Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:38:32 +0000 http://www.phdinparenting.com/?p=4161#comment-91657 [...] Sagging Breasts- Breast-feeding’s Not to Blame! Hurray for dispelling that myth! The part that jumped out at me was: In a survey of high school girls in Italy, 30% of respondents expressed the belief that breast-feeding “makes breasts ugly. I think that is really sad! Hopefully that does not directly correlate to how many of those girls will choose to breast-feed! [...] [...] Sagging Breasts- Breast-feeding’s Not to Blame! Hurray for dispelling that myth! The part that jumped out at me was: In a survey of high school girls in Italy, 30% of respondents expressed the belief that breast-feeding “makes breasts ugly. I think that is really sad! Hopefully that does not directly correlate to how many of those girls will choose to breast-feed! [...]

]]> By: Ashley http://www.phdinparenting.com/2010/04/04/sagging-breasts-whats-to-blame/#comment-88761 Ashley Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:19:28 +0000 http://www.phdinparenting.com/?p=4161#comment-88761 I remember my mother harping after me when I was 10 and 11 (a family of early bloomers!) that I needed to wear a bra or my boobs would get saggy. This is the first time I've been told that my lack of a bra at a young age isn't what doomed these things. (The sheer size of both them? Probably the culprit.) I never worried about the breastfeeding = sagginess issue, because honestly, I wasn't perky to start with. I remember my mother harping after me when I was 10 and 11 (a family of early bloomers!) that I needed to wear a bra or my boobs would get saggy. This is the first time I’ve been told that my lack of a bra at a young age isn’t what doomed these things. (The sheer size of both them? Probably the culprit.)

I never worried about the breastfeeding = sagginess issue, because honestly, I wasn’t perky to start with.

]]> By: Body Image Carnival Post Round Up | Breastfeeding Moms Unite http://www.phdinparenting.com/2010/04/04/sagging-breasts-whats-to-blame/#comment-53850 Body Image Carnival Post Round Up | Breastfeeding Moms Unite Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:54:52 +0000 http://www.phdinparenting.com/?p=4161#comment-53850 [...] Sagging Breasts? What’s to Blame? at PhD in Parenting [...] [...] Sagging Breasts? What’s to Blame? at PhD in Parenting [...]

]]> By: Maman A Droit http://www.phdinparenting.com/2010/04/04/sagging-breasts-whats-to-blame/#comment-52758 Maman A Droit Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:01:50 +0000 http://www.phdinparenting.com/?p=4161#comment-52758 I wonder if anyone has looked at whether sleeping in a bra has any effect. My MIL claims she slept in an underwire bra everynight while bf'ing all 6 of her kids so she would never sag. I am more of a creature of comfort, not to mention probably doomed by my large cup size anyway, so I'm risking it :). Not to mention I've heard underwire bras can contribute to plugged ducts, etc! I wonder if anyone has looked at whether sleeping in a bra has any effect. My MIL claims she slept in an underwire bra everynight while bf’ing all 6 of her kids so she would never sag. I am more of a creature of comfort, not to mention probably doomed by my large cup size anyway, so I’m risking it :) . Not to mention I’ve heard underwire bras can contribute to plugged ducts, etc!

]]> By: How Breastfeeding Can Change Our Body Image | Breastfeeding Moms Unite http://www.phdinparenting.com/2010/04/04/sagging-breasts-whats-to-blame/#comment-52751 How Breastfeeding Can Change Our Body Image | Breastfeeding Moms Unite Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:52:07 +0000 http://www.phdinparenting.com/?p=4161#comment-52751 [...] more about this study and what a couple other bloggers think about it, go visit PhD in Parenting: Sagging Breasts? What’s To Blame? and Chronicles of a Nursing Mom: Saggy Boobs and [...] [...] more about this study and what a couple other bloggers think about it, go visit PhD in Parenting: Sagging Breasts? What’s To Blame? and Chronicles of a Nursing Mom: Saggy Boobs and [...]

]]> By: Se7en’s Fabulous Friday Fun #14 – Link-Up » se7en http://www.phdinparenting.com/2010/04/04/sagging-breasts-whats-to-blame/#comment-52547 Se7en’s Fabulous Friday Fun #14 – Link-Up » se7en Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:02:38 +0000 http://www.phdinparenting.com/?p=4161#comment-52547 [...] Sagging – What’s to Blame? from PhD in Parenting: To the people that told me that my, um chest would be terribly saggy if I were to nurse my babies and that’s why they were bottle feeding… How sad, because here’s the proof once you have been pregnant that damage is done and you are going downhill long before you ever think about nursing. [...] [...] Sagging – What’s to Blame? from PhD in Parenting: To the people that told me that my, um chest would be terribly saggy if I were to nurse my babies and that’s why they were bottle feeding… How sad, because here’s the proof once you have been pregnant that damage is done and you are going downhill long before you ever think about nursing. [...]

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