Chest after childbirth is transformed and it's natural. Such external changes are just another stage in the formation of the female body. And these transformations are not always bad. It also happens that for someone the external difference becomes saving.
Is it heredity?
The appearance of any breast, its shape, size and predisposition to ailments are all inherited properties. It is for this reason that if you are dissatisfied with the aesthetic side of the mammary glands, you need to find out what the situation was with the closest female relatives.
The hormonal background is of great importance for the mammary glands. After the first menstruation has come, there is a surge of female sex hormones, and the breasts begin to grow. But already during the onset of menopause, the tissue of all glands changes to fat. To understand why the breasts become deformed after childbirth and lactation, it is necessary to have an understanding of the anatomy of the breast during the reproductive period of life. So, the mammary glands consist of a union of glands in the amount of 15-20 pieces, they are divided by strands of connective tissue. Each lobule gives rise to a duct, these ducts join and create sinuses around the nipple and areola. In thatplace and milk is collected during breastfeeding. All this is protected by the skin. With the help of the Kupffer ligaments, the chest is attached in the region of the collarbones and chest muscles.
After all the above, we can conclude that the external differences in the bust depend on the elasticity of the skin, the amount of fat layers, the quality of the skin. If both breasts are slightly different from each other, this is not a reason for panic, but a variant of the norm.
But heredity is not the only reason that breasts change shape and size after childbirth and feeding. There are other important factors as well.
For a long time there has been a legend among women that if you do not breastfeed after childbirth, you can maintain the shape that it was before childbirth. This is not true. Women's breasts change from the moment of conception, not the birth of a child. With a sharp refusal to breastfeed, the fat layer does not have time to replace the glandular one. For this reason, the bust seems empty and saggy.
Postpartum breast changes
Women, not yet pregnant, notice that external breast changes depend on hormonal changes throughout the month. Before the onset of menstruation, the bust swells a little, because interstitial fluid flows to the ducts and lobes. For the same reason, pain sometimes occurs. But it is worth noting that all these monthly changes are valid until the moment when ovulation takes place in the female body.
As soon as conception occurs, the mammary glands begin to prepare for breastfeeding. At the time of childbirth, a woman's breasts can become four sizes larger. Sucha sharp increase is due to a weight jump, a change in the size of the shares and filling them with a secret. Around the last trimester, if the pregnant woman has a good hormonal balance, there is a discharge of a clear liquid from the nipples. An interesting feature is that already during pregnancy, the diameter of the areola and nipples becomes larger, and their color changes to brown in different shades. The veins become clearly visible, because the blood rushes more strongly, visible stretch marks appear.
All these metamorphoses increase the pressure on the muscles of the chest and its ligaments more.
Breast size after childbirth depends entirely on personal characteristics. If the elasticity of the connective tissue is large, and the muscles of the chest are weak, then this will lead to sagging of the bust. Sometimes it drops very much, especially when compared with what it was before pregnancy. The insidious thing is that after the end of lactation, the breasts do not always return to their original shape.
Summarizing the information, there are two reasons for how the breast behaves after childbirth:
- Training of the pectoral muscle until the moment of childbirth and pregnancy.
- Heredity through the female line.
Why do breasts hurt after childbirth
Many women who have become mothers for the first time are frightened by many incomprehensible sensations. One of the things that worries new moms the most is breast pain after childbirth.
The fact is that pain is caused by a rush of breast milk. There are a few suggestions to make this period less painful.
- The first postpartum days are notwater and other liquids should be abused. Due to the large amount of water in breast milk, much more than necessary can come in, and the breast will harden.
- If hardening still occurred, then you need to increase the attachment to the baby's chest.
- If it is not possible to apply the baby, you need to massage the breast and express milk manually or with a breast pump.
- To relieve pain, wear a fairly tight bra or take a very warm shower.
Nutrition for breast beauty
If for some reason you can't save the old forms and appearance, you can try to restore them. And oddly enough, but it helps to tighten sagging breasts after childbirth with proper nutrition. To do this, you need to limit fatty foods and flour products as much as possible, because weight gain only stimulates sagging. It is better to stop drinking alcohol altogether, because alcohol deteriorates the quality of the skin.
In order for the bust reflection to be satisfying, you need to eat foods rich in fiber and protein foods. Heat treatment of products should also be as useful as possible, it is best to stew, steam and boil dishes. Within a year after a woman gives birth, she needs enhanced nutrition and increased intake of nutrients.
How to restore the bust?
It would seem that it could be easier? But no, restoring breasts after childbirth can be very difficult. But still, there are such methods and they need to be used.
Correct underwear
The most important role in preserving the breast is played by the right underwear. The right bra should not have narrow straps, a large number of coarse raw seams, bones and synthetic materials. Cotton seamless bras with wide straps do not have to be removed at night. They will provide round-the-clock breast support.
Breast massage
Chest after childbirth will help restore massage, which also comes in two forms. The first option is based on the effect on the skin of the chest, and the second - on the interaction with the pectoral muscle.
Basic Breast Massage Techniques:
- Stroking movements on the chest. Start stroking with four fingers, starting from the areola and nipples moving deep into the chest. Such movements must be repeated up to eight times on one chest.
- Rubbing movements on the chest. They are made along the same trajectory as the previous movement, only at a faster pace. If massaged correctly, the skin will turn red from the rush of blood to it.
- Kneading movements on the chest. The trajectory of movement is from the edge line to the armpit. With this pressure, you need to move in a spiral line using your knuckles or pads.
- Tapping movements on the chest. With the tips of all fingers, pat all over the chest.
It is strictly forbidden to massage the mammary gland directly. Such a massage can only do harm.
Complete the massage with light stroking movements.
Physical exercise
There is a group of exercises that helps to achieve good results in bringing the chest in order.
Pushups
Is the most effective exercise. Performed as follows:
- It is necessary to take a knee-elbow posture. For those who are familiar with sports, it is necessary to do push-ups leaning on the toe of the foot. Beginners simplify the exercise and focus on the knees.
- Hands placed at chest level.
- The body from the head to the buttocks is a straight line. And with push-ups, the sirloin should not rise. Perform several sets of thirty times.
Clenching hands
- Hands apart at chest level and bent at the elbows. Palms pressed together.
- Feet shoulder-width apart.
- Palms squeeze as hard as possible and count to twenty.
- Repeat the exercise at least three times.
- After repetition, perform this movement in a dynamic version: change the tension of the palms and relaxation for a third of a minute.
Movement with the ball
- The ball is in the hands, and the hands themselves are located as in the previous exercise.
- Feet no wider than shoulders.
- The meaning of this exercise echoes the squeezing of the palms, only instead of their tension the ball is squeezed.
Wall Press
- Hands are placed at shoulder level, straightened and rest against the wall.
- Feetin position together.
- You need to bend your arms so that your forehead touches the wall.
- Return to the starting position and repeat again.
- There should be at least 10 such repetitions, gradually their number should be increased to fifty.
- You need to do at least three sets in one workout.
Use of cosmetics
How to tighten breasts after childbirth using cosmetics? No, but it is possible to improve the condition of the skin by moisturizing it. You need to choose the most effective creams, and they are far from the budget price. For this reason, the best option would be to make homemade cosmetics.
For example, any white clay creams will have a beneficial effect on the condition of the breast skin. Clay can be mixed with honey and cream and applied to the skin until dry. Then rinse with water.
A great way to improve the condition of the breast is to use a variety of peels. It is safe for the dermis to peel the chest no more than a couple of times a week.
There are also creams designed to get rid of stretch marks and scars, but these are best used during pregnancy to increase skin elasticity and prevent the appearance.
Masks for breast beauty
How to tighten breasts after childbirth if for some reason physical activity is contraindicated, and precious days are gone? Of course, homemade masks will be the most effective.
Recipe 1
Three tablespoons of oatmeal are poured with boiling water and allowed to swell. After swelling, the remaining water is poured out, and the oat mass is evenlydistributed over the entire chest, avoiding halos. Wash off twenty minutes after application.
Recipe 2
Mix the protein from one chicken egg with 300 grams of cottage cheese and five drops of grapefruit oil. Evenly cover the chest and leave for a third of an hour, then rinse the chest with water.
Water method
How to restore breasts after childbirth with water, two methods will be described below.
- Massage the mammary glands under a strong jet starting from the center and moving towards the armpits. On one chest should account for up to ten circular repetitions. The water should not be too hot or cold.
- Changing the water temperature in the shower. Warm and cold water should alternate quickly enough. It is necessary to finish the procedure with a strictly cold jet. At the end of the procedure, the breasts should be well moistened with a special cream.
Surgical way to change the breast
If, after childbirth, the breasts become very flabby and lose their shape, then there is no alternative way to return the former shape. There is only one way - to the surgical table. Such a solution to the problem has a lot of contraindications and disadvantages, the main of which is its considerable cost.
A plastic surgeon can not only tighten the bust, but also change its shape, and if desired, the size. Photos of the breast after childbirth and after surgery will be a vivid confirmation of this. Today's advances in medicine even allow you to adjust the diameter of the halo. The operation itself costs at least three hundred thousand rubles, but this price includes onlythe operation itself without the price of the implant. The initial recovery period stretches for several days. But then for another month you will need to wear a bandage and avoid lifting weights.
Proper feeding and breast beauty
What kind of breast after childbirth will depend very much on properly organized feeding of the child. And to learn how to breastfeed properly, you need to know the following:
- It happens that a little man chooses his favorite breast and tries to eat only from it. And it turns out that milk accumulates in the ignored breast, due to which the gland is overstretched. If during the lactation period a special difference is not visible, then at the end of feeding such a dissonance will be very noticeable. To avoid this situation, you should not allow the child to choose which breast to eat from. Mom herself must control this process and, based on her feelings, offer one or another breast during feeding. When the baby is categorical and does not take the mammary gland into any, it must be offered at moments of half sleep or in a dream. The child will want to eat, but will not wake up yet to control the process.
- Another reason why breasts lose their aesthetic function after childbirth is not pumping out of necessity. Rather, hand pumping itself can harm the breast due to stretching. But, if you use a breast pump, you can solve both problems at once.
Correct attachment
How true this process is and painless for the mother, so bustwill look aesthetically pleasing.
Baby should not grasp or bite on the nipple superficially. If this happens, then feeding is considered incorrect. With the correct grip, the mother does not experience pain, and the child does not choke and does not remain hungry.
The correct sign of feeding is the immobility of the upper jaw in a child, but active movements of the lower jaw.
You can understand the desire of a young mother to look perfect, because she has experienced such stress. Her life has been turned upside down and all she can cling to is her prenatal looks. For any woman, the period of pregnancy, and then childbirth, is a stressful situation. If it is not expressed externally, then it certainly concerns the body.
In order not to feel on the sidelines of life, like your reflection and your soulmate, you need to take care of your appearance in advance. The Russian proverb "Prepare the sledge in summer and the cart in winter" fits perfectly here. It perfectly reflects the fact that everything needs to be foreseen and prevented, so that later the consequences will not be corrected for a long and painful time.
