Boobs!
In my maiden days, my bosoms barely fit into A cups. I remember buying AA cups late into my teen years, very pathetic, and made me very envious of those who were well-endowed. For god’s sake, there are men who are more well-endowed in the chest than I was! (those, I do not envy!) Then in college I began to fit into an A pretty well, but still not as perky or pointy as others. To make matters worse, I generally weighed 100 +/- 5 pounds. In essence, if it weren’t for my long and girlish hair-do’s I would have looked like a pre-puberty young lad. Maybe I did look like that to some.
When I got pregnant with our son, I read up on pregnancy books and articles. It was pretty unanimous that a woman’s boobs grow as the pregnancy progresses. And by the time 36 or 38 weeks rolls around, her boobs will be approximately the size as if she was breastfeeding, and they suggest going out to buy nursing bras around that time frame. That is, if she so chooses to breastfeed the baby. After all, you don’t want to be without a nursing bra at the hospital, and you wouldn’t have time to rush out to the stores to buy anything until the babes are at least a month old. Well, what a bunch of hooey crap it was!!! None of it applied to me. My boobs got as far as a Barely B by the time I gave birth at 38 weeks gestation.
However, once my milk supply started coming in, I swelled to an enormous size C cup! It was incredible. Hubby thought it was super sexy. I on the other hand, did not want to have anything other than the pumping cups or the little pudgy fingers touching my boobs. The letting down sensation was about the only ones my boobs could handle. And all of a sudden, whether it was truth or self-conjured, I felt everyone was looking at my boobs instead of my faced first. Something that has never ever ever happened before. I’m not entirely sure I liked the extra attention.
This Big Bosom only lasted as long as my breastfeeding days, plus a couple of weeks. I was dismayed to find those mounds shrunk back down to cupcakes, tiny cup cakes. I will never understand why it is possible, but they got smaller than my Maiden Day Boobs. Here’s the kicker: they sagged!!! Considering how small they are/were, I did not think that was possible til much later..
Nature has its funny ways of doing things. I am now in the second trimester (wow, I can’t believe it. second trimester), and my boobs have started to swell at a pretty good rate. I’m now a confidently B cup woman again. I must wonder, based on this rate, will my breastfeeding size become a D?! I shudder to think what my post-breastfeeding size will become this time around… That dreadful boob image from “Something About Mary” comes to mind.
March 12th, 2005 at 10:47 pm
Tell you what dear…I have a few cup sizes I would gladly donate on a permanent basis. I have always had a large chest (I was a DDD prior to pregnany). After going through two successful pregnancies and breastfeeding both for over 18 months each, my boobs are still 5 cup sizes bigger than I started at. Personally, I can’t imagine anyone paying to get them this size and I know they do.
March 14th, 2005 at 4:02 pm
I’m with Kristin. I am bigger than I really need or want to be and would gladly give up a cup size or two.