Your boobs held up to the child birth? I've been following some womem who kept things perky by being proactive .
1. Cocoa butter on boobs to keep skin elastic diring and after
2. Consume collagen for skin vibrancy and elasticity during and after
3. Dont use pregancy as excuse for excess weight gain
4. After baby build up pectoral muscles iand lats to take up skin slack
I was wondering how yours fared?
Well you are going to get a lengthy answer, lol.
My body and boobs did fine through all three pregnancies actually. I was a 34C naturally prior to children. I also have extremely dense breast tissue, which is all genetics. And on my small frame that size was quite ample. Because of the dense tissue I do not gain or lose weight in my breast tissue, which isn't the case for all women. I also cannot do breast self exams. The tissue is too dense to tell if there is a new lump or thickness. So I get a mammogram once every few years. The thing you learn with good size boobs is that you can never go without good support. So ever since I developed boobs I've always taken care to wear adequate support, and was always somewhat jealous of less well endowed women who could get away with skipping a bra. That has never been an option for me (with the exception of being naked for bathing or sex). So that long established habit has served me well. I still wear high support athletic bras to bed. Nike or Champion. Defying gravity at my age takes a rigorous habit of adequate support over many years.
I had all 3 of my children in my 30s. To avoid stretch marks I applied shea butter every morning and evening (long before I started to show) to my belly, my boobs and my thighs. I believe that helped as I never got stretch marks. I still use organic coconut oil daily as a moisturizer. It is extremely healthy and nourishing for the skin. I also got a full body massage for 90 minutes every week during each pregnancy. This helps the lymph, helps the skin, helps the ligaments and the muscles, helps with fluid retention. I think weekly massage eased my pregnancies. Especially given the fact that I was doing heavy business travel up to 34 weeks on and off airplanes with each child. It was expensive, but I considered it a preventative health care expense. I was blessed with uncomplicated pregnancies.
During pregnancy I was also careful about my weight and gained from 117 up to a max of 152 or so, of which much of that was baby, blood volume, fluid and placenta, and breast engorgement. I weighed around 135 or so days after birth, and had "G" cup breasts full of milk. I breast fed each of my children for the first year, exclusively breast fed for the first 90 days or so, and nursing creates a natural caloric deficit, so I was back to pre-pregnancy weight very quickly (by 90 days post partem)...I actually had to consciously eat more than my normal habit in order to intake enough calories for 2.
Boobs are funny. They can get bigger or smaller after pregnancy. Mine stayed bigger. I'm now a 34DD, still all natural, still look very much the same as I did before children as far as shape, perkiness, etc. I don't look like I ever had children. My son was an emergency C-section. So I had my 2 daughters the same way rather than risk it with a VBAC. So I've never had my pubis split for natural delivery. So my hips are the same now as they were pre birth. And I was very fortunate that I had a talented surgeon in my OB doc. He closed the C-section so well that my stomach is taunt and the scar is small and below the bikini line. My stomach is flat, without stretch marks or noticable scars. I heal very well and again, have good genetics to draw on.
At some point I may consider fake boobs. I don't need them currently, and working in healthcare as I do I am well appraised of the risks inherent in that major surgery...my grandmother had a bust like mine, and a figure as well. Her bosom was shapely well into her 70s, so unless I've got to undergo such a procedure (like, if my boobs ever try and kill me, lol) then I'd rather remain as I am, and avoid the potential risks of a boob job.
Many women with fake boobs lose nipple sensation, all have scars, some have to have a redo later on or a second surgery. No thanks. I'm blessed to look as I do, and I'm lucky that I got the genetics I got. As I've said elsewhere, I have a healthy lifestyle that maximizes the genetics that I have. Not every woman is going to be as fortunate as I have been with my body. And it is impossible to know from the jump how a woman is going to come through childbearing.
Its one of life's uncertainties.
