Getting fitted for new bras - feeling bad about my size
I'm feeling really crappy and sad about my boobies - well, my body in general really. I've never been very toned or anything, and I hate exercising and love food. Anyway. Before bub, I was about 58kg and my bra size was a 12B or 10C (I think, I hadn't bought a new bra in ages). Now, I'm about 60kg, so a similar weight. But I need to get new bras and according to my DIY measurements just now, I'm a 14B. I don't get it. How does that work? Anyone know anything about the way bras fit? I know it's just a number, but it's really getting me down. My boobs were never very big, but the were at least full and firm. Now they are saggy. And I've gone from a 10/12 to a 14?
It's so stupid. I knew this would happen, and I feel very hypocritical because breastfeeding didn't work out for me and I desperately wanted to bf for 12 months and I only got to 20 weeks with comp feeding - now I'm whinging about how they look!
Last edited by lee09; January 11th, 2012 at 01:08 PM.
Hey, it's not stupid and I soooo get how you feel! I was a 10A before bf and now I am a 12AA (or even worse *cringe*). I didn't think an AA cup could be saggy, but they're horrible! I won't look at myself in the mirror anymore and don't go anywhere without padding. As for the back size, I don't get that either because I'm still a size 6-8 in regular clothes and the same weight as before I was pregnant (give or take a kg). Maybe it's like everything else and the sizing has gotten smaller, not us getting bigger??! lol
Hi JLeigh, thanks for your response. Makes me feel better that there's also a difference in your clothes size and bra size! You may be right about sizes getting smaller. It's just sad that a number (or letter!) can make us feel bad about ourselves.
Have you seen a movie called "The Sweetest Thing"? Cameron Diaz, Selma Blair and Christina Applegate? Its a chick flick about a woman who realises one day she's reached 28 and she's still acting like a young single thing. Anyway there's a scene in it where Diaz is looking at herself in the mirror, in her undies and bra and she lifts her boobs up so they are all nice and perky and says "22" then drops them and says "28". And then does it a few more times. I always think of that when I'm looking at myself in the mirror. 22, 28, or in my case 31 + two bf bubbas!!!
Sigh! Yes we can all wax lyrical about how our breasts have been through a journey into motherhood with is and we all know that it is not actually bf that makes them saggy it is the pregnancy itself... etc etc... but at the end of the day, they are still gonna be a little bit saggy and sad and for some women we will pine after the perky little bosoms that we had in our youth! I'm one of them - I pine!!!
Anyway - when I got pg I went from a 12C up to a 14D/DD and am now slowly dropping back to something like a 14C... or less maybe...
I do not know why you would now be a 14 if you are roughly the same weight - maybe a weight distribution thing??
But I do suggest going and getting fitted properly. It might be completely different when get yourself fitted professionally.
Yep, I was already a C cup size and went up to a D. I went and got fitted at bras n things and the girl was wonderful. It took 40 minutes for her to find one to fit because there are so many sizes and cup shapes but we did get there in the end and I ended up with two incredibly comfortable bras.
It is difficult to adjust to the added size and weight. Now I'm pg again, I've found I'm changing again and my bras aren't fitting me comfortably anymore grrrrr.
The number relates to the size round your chest with no boobs, in the UK is a different number and it is actually the number of inches e.g. 34, 36 etc - so this is my theory - being a mum is hard work and lots of lifting is involved, so you have developed upper chest and back muscles making the 'number' bigger (the number can be different due to carrying more weight there too but sounds like you aren't). Also I think is really difficult to measure yourself accurately so you might find that if you get measured although you get a 14 they get a 12 for example.
Take yourself off to somewhere like Bras-n-things, get yourself fitted and ask the girl not to tell you what size you are buying! Tell her to cut the bloody tag out when you pay! Choose the bra which is most comfortable and you most like the appearance of.
I have had two breast reductions, I have scarred boobs and I was unable to BF my first two kids, I have comp fed my third (still going at 13 months... had to throw that in because I'm so bloody proud!). I know what it is like to feel poorly about my breasts.
Numbers are not important, find a bra which makes you FEEL good. And be proud that those boobies fed your baby, comp feeding or not!!
Hun I feel your pain, I've gone from taking in a 10b around the back to fit me, to a 12d when bf. now post bub and bf I'm a 12b I very much miss my big bf boobies
Mine have completely changed as well, don't feel bad. I think pregnancy and feeding in general completely changes the shape of your body. Mine were 12C pre-kids, then up to 14E while feeding and pg, and am now still a 14C even though with nothing on I look like a 12B at the most. All the skin that is there counts too I guess, best bet is to go and get fitted properly hun - in one bra I am a 12D instead of 14C so see how you go. xoxo
The smaller the around size - so 12, 14, whatever, the larger cup size you need. So if I have a size 14 bra, I usually wear a C cup. But in a size 12 bra, I need a D cup. That's how it's always worked in my experience anyway.
I went from a 12D prior to DD to a 16E whilst pregnant and I'm now a 12E and pregnant again! Hoping I don't go ridiculous sizing again!
Definitely try bras and things. I often have difficulty as 1 is considerably bigger than the other, and both are saggy but they will do their utmost best to find you a correct fitting and comfortable bra
Hello everyone who was kind enough to share their bra stories!
I went into Bras n Things today and got properly fitted. She fitted me as a 10D! . But when I tried one on I was a 12C. So completely different to what I was expecting. But a good-fitting bra makes such a difference - I bought four!
Hello everyone who was kind enough to share their bra stories!
I went into Bras n Things today and got properly fitted. She fitted me as a 10D! . But when I tried one on I was a 12C. So completely different to what I was expecting. But a good-fitting bra makes such a difference - I bought four!
Getting fitted for new bras - feeling bad about my size
Anyway. Before bub, I was about 58kg and my bra size was a 12B or 10C (I think, I hadn't bought a new bra in ages). Now, I'm about 60kg, so a similar weight. But I need to get new bras and according to my DIY measurements just now, I'm a 14B. I don't get it. How does that work? Anyone know anything about the way bras fit? I know it's just a number, but it's really getting me down. My boobs were never very big, but the were at least full and firm. Now they are saggy. And I've gone from a 10/12 to a 14? 
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I always think of that when I'm looking at myself in the mirror. 22, 28, or in my case 31 + two bf bubbas!!!
I'm one of them - I pine!!!
. But when I tried one on I was a 12C. So completely different to what I was expecting. But a good-fitting bra makes such a difference - I bought four! 
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