Breast after childbirth is transformed and it is natural. Such external changes are just another step in the formation of the female body. And these transformations are not always of a bad character. It also happens that for someone the external difference becomes salvific.
Is heredity?
The appearance of any breast, its shape, size and predisposition to ailments are all inherited properties. For this reason, if the aesthetic side is unsatisfied with the mammary glands, you need to find out what the situation was with the closest female relatives.
The hormonal background is of great importance on the mammary glands. After the first menstruation has come, a surge of female sex hormones occurs, and the chest begins to grow. But already during the onset of menopause, the tissue of all glands changes to fat. To understand why the breast is deformed after childbirth and lactation, it is necessary to have an idea 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 connective tissue. Each lobe gives rise to a duct; these ducts join and create sinuses around the nipple and areola. In this place, milk is also collected during breastfeeding. All this is protected by the skin. Using the Kupffer ligaments, the breast is attached to the clavicle and chest muscles.
After all the above, we can conclude that the external differences of the bust depend on the elasticity of the skin, the amount of fatty layers, and 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 the breast after birth and feeding changes its shape and size. There are other important factors.
Since ancient times, there has been a legend among women that if you do not breast-feed after childbirth, you can maintain the form that was before childbirth. This is not true. Female breasts change from the moment of conception, and not the birth of a child. With a sharp refusal from breastfeeding, 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 changes in the breast depend on hormonal changes over the course of a month. Before the onset of menstruation, the bust swells slightly, because interstitial fluid flows to the ducts and lobes. For the same reason, sometimes painful sensations arise. But it is worth noting that all these monthly changes are valid until the ovulation passes in the female body.
As soon as conception occurs, the mammary glands begin to prepare for breastfeeding. At the time of birth, the female breast can become four sizes larger. Such a sharp increase is due to a weight jump, a change in the size of the shares and the filling of their secret. Around the last trimester, if a pregnant woman has a good hormonal balance, there is a release of clear fluid 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. Veins become clearly visible, because blood rushes stronger, visible stretch marks appear.
All these metamorphoses increase pressure on the muscles of the chest and its ligaments more strongly.
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 bust. Sometimes it drops very much, especially when compared with what was before pregnancy. The insidious thing is that after the completion of lactation, the breast does not always return to its original form.
Summarizing the information, two reasons can be identified for how the breast behaves after childbirth:
- Exercise of the pectoral muscle until delivery and pregnancy.
- Female inheritance.
Why does chest pain after childbirth
Many women who first became a mother are afraid of many strange sensations. One of those that bothers new moms most of all is chest pain after childbirth.
The fact is that pain is caused by a rush of breast milk. Several recommendations can be made to make this period less painful.
- The first postpartum days do not need to be abused by water and other fluids. Due to the large amount of water, breast milk may come in much more than necessary, and breast hardening will occur.
- If hardening nevertheless happened, then attachments to the baby's chest should be increased.
- If it is not possible to apply the baby, you need to do breast massage and express milk manually or with a breast pump.
- To alleviate the pain, you need to wear a fairly tight bra or take a very warm shower.
Breast Beauty Nutrition
If for some reason it was impossible to maintain its former forms and appearance, then you can try to restore them. And strangely enough, but it helps to tighten sagging breasts after childbirth proper nutrition. To do this, limit fatty foods and flour products as much as possible, because weight gain only stimulates sagging. The use of alcoholic beverages is better to stop altogether, because alcohol impairs the quality of the skin.
To reflect the bust of satisfaction, 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 dishes, steam and boil. Within a year after a woman gives birth, she needs enhanced nutrition and increased consumption of nutrients.
How to restore a bust?
It would seem that could be easier? But no, it is very difficult to restore the breast after childbirth. But still there are similar methods and they need to be used.
Proper underwear
The most important role in the issue of breast preservation is played by properly selected underwear. The correct bra should not have narrow straps, a large number of rough rough seams, pits 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
Breast after childbirth will help restore massage, which is also of two types. The first option is based on exposure to the skin of the chest, and the second - on the interaction with the pectoral muscle.
The main methods of breast massage:
- Stroking movements on the chest. They 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 produced along the same trajectory as the previous movement, only at a faster pace. If massaged correctly, the skin will turn red from a rush of blood to it.
- Kneading movements on the chest. The trajectory of movement is from the edge line to the armpit. At this pressure, you need to move along a spiral line using your knuckles or pads.
- Tapping movements on the chest. Use the tips of all fingers to pat across the entire chest.
It is strictly forbidden to massage directly the mammary gland. Such a massage can only do harm.
Massage is completed with light stroking movements.
Physical exercise
There is a group of exercises that helps to achieve good results in bringing the breast in order.
Push ups
It is the most effective exercise. It is carried out as follows:
- It is necessary to take a knee-elbow pose. For those who are familiar with sports, push-ups must be based on the toe of the foot. Beginners simplify the exercise and focus on their knees.
- Hands are placed at chest level.
- The body from the head to the buttocks is a straight line. And when push-ups, the loin should not rise. Perform several approaches thirty times.
Palm squeezing
- Hands are placed at chest level and bent at the elbows. The palms are pressed to each other.
- The legs are shoulder width apart.
- Palms squeeze as tightly as possible and count to twenty.
- Repeat the exercise at least three times.
- After the repetition, this movement is performed in a dynamic version: the tension of the palms and relaxation are replaced for a third of a minute.
Ball movement
- The ball is in the hands, and the hands themselves are located as in the previous exercise.
- The legs are not wider than the shoulders.
- The meaning of this exercise has something in common with squeezing the palms, only instead of their tension the ball is squeezed.
Bench press
- Hands are placed at shoulder level, straighten and abut against the wall.
- Feet in position together.
- You need to bend your arms so that your forehead touches the wall.
- Return to the starting position and repeat again.
- Such repetitions should be at least 10, gradually their number must be brought to fifty.
- In one training session you need to do at least three approaches.
Use of cosmetics
How to tighten the breast after childbirth using cosmetics? No way, but it is possible to improve the condition of the skin by moisturizing it. You need to choose the most effective creams, and they have far from a budget price. For this reason, the best option would be the manufacture of home cosmetics.
For example, any white clay creams will have a beneficial effect on the condition of the skin of the breast. Clay can be mixed with honey and cream and applied to the skin until dry. Then rinse with water.
A great way to improve breast condition is to use a variety of peels. It is safe for the dermis to peel the breast no more often than a couple of times a week.
There are also creams aimed at getting rid of stretch marks and scars, but they are best used during pregnancy to increase skin elasticity and prevent the appearance.
Masks for breast beauty
How to tighten the breast after childbirth if for some reason physical activity is contraindicated, and precious days go away? Of course, homemade masks will be most effective.
Recipe number 1
Three tablespoons of oatmeal are poured with boiling water and allowed to swell. After swelling, the remaining water is poured, and the oatmeal is evenly distributed throughout the chest, avoiding halos. Wash off twenty minutes after application.
Recipe number 2
The protein from one chicken egg is mixed with 300 grams of cottage cheese and five drops of grapefruit oil. Cover the chest evenly and leave for a third of an hour, then rinse the chest with water.
Water method
How to restore the breast after childbirth with water, two methods will be described below.
- Massage the mammary glands under a strong stream starting from the center and moving to the armpits. Up to ten circular repetitions per breast. Water should not be too hot or cold.
- Change in water temperature in the shower. Warm and cold water should alternate quickly enough. The procedure must be completed with a strictly cold stream. At the end of the procedure, the breast should be well moistened with a special cream.
Breast Surgery
If after the birth the breast has become very flabby and has lost its shape, then by no alternative means will not return to its former shape. There is only one way left — to the surgical table. This solution to the problem has many contraindications and disadvantages, the main one of which is its considerable cost.
A plastic surgeon can not only tighten a bust, but also change its shape, and if desired, its size. Photos of the breast after childbirth and after surgery will be a vivid confirmation of this. Today's medical advances even allow you to adjust the diameter of the halo. The operation itself costs at least three hundred thousand rubles, but this price includes only the operation itself without the price for an implant. The primary recovery period stretches for several days. But then for another month it will be necessary to wear a bandage and avoid lifting weights.
Proper breastfeeding and beauty
What breasts after childbirth will become, depends very much on properly organized feeding of the baby. And in order 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 in the ignored breast, milk accumulates due to which the iron 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. In order to avoid such a situation, you should not let the baby 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 in any way, it must be offered in moments of drowsiness or in a dream. The child will want to eat, but will not wake up to control the process.
- Another reason why the breast after giving birth loses its aesthetic function is not expressing as necessary. Rather, the actual pumping done by hand can harm the chest due to stretching. But, if you use a breast pump, then you can solve both problems at once.
Proper attachment
As true as this process is and painless for the mother, the bust will look aesthetically pleasing.
The child should not superficially grab the nipple or bite it. If this happens, then feeding is considered improper. With a correct capture, 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 the child, but active movements of the lower jaw.
You can understand the desire of a young mother to look perfect, because she experienced such stress. Her life turned upside down, and all she can catch on is her prenatal appearance. For any woman, the period of pregnancy and then childbirth is a stressful situation. If this is not expressed externally, then it certainly affects the body.
In order not to feel yourself on the sidelines of life, like your reflection and your soulmate, you need to take care of your appearance in advance. Here the Russian proverb "Prepare a sleigh in the summer and a cart in the winter" perfectly fits . It perfectly reflects the fact that everything needs to be foreseen and warned so as not to correct the consequences for a long time and painfully.