I have a breastfeeding dilemma...it's a little weird.?

Question

1 of my breast are about a cup size larger than the other. will this fix itself when i stop breastfeeding my baby?

Answer 1

Yes, it will.  The larger side is probably the side the baby nurses from more, so it produces more milk.  Try using both sides evenly.

Answer 2

Most likely. It's probably just milk. Feed a little more/longer on that side. Does it go down? I don't think it's anything permanent!

Answer 3

nobody EVER has two perfectly  even b*****s. when i was breastfeeding the same thing happened to me because my daughter prefered my right breast and when i stopped they went back to exactly what they were before i got pregnant.  

Answer 4

Usually the right breast if larger than the left (if you are right handed). Sometimes this corrects itself and sometimes it doesn't. Your breast may have been slightly different sizes before you became pregnant but it wasn't enough to notice. If that's the case, they will probably go back to the way they were and you will barely notice it. Most people actually have one breast that is larger than the other even if they are not breastfeeding.

Answer 5

If you had this before, than it most likely won't. If this has developed after the pregnancy it might, although I know that my friends mother still has a cup size difference (since her last pregnancy which was 5 years ago)

Most woman have different sized b*****s, although a cup size is rather extreme. I don't think it affects your health though. You will just have to wait.

Normally, after pregnancy, the b*****s will return to how they were before the pregnancy. A change in breast-size is not really attributed to breastfeeding, but the pregnancy itself. So if you did not have different sized b*****s before, than I am sure the will return to 'normal' when you stop breastfeeding. Also, you might feed more with one breast than the other and thus stimulate more milk production in the one - thus making t bigger.

Answer 6

yes more than likely it should. try breastfeeding the baby more on the side thats larger!

good luck!  

Answer 7

you may be favoring one breast over the other. Try to make sure that the baby is draining both breast fully and change sides with each feeding. If the baby tends to fall asleep at one side and doesn't empty the breast then it won't produce as much milk as the emptied side (hence one side that is fuller and larger).  

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

Yes it will.  I breast fed 3 children and my right was always larger than the left. I don't know why, but they did go back to normal as soon as the baby was weened.

Answer 10

It's not weird at all.  Parenting can be really funky sometimes.  It sounds like you're just a little lopsided!  Remember, breastfeeding is demand driven, so if baby's eating more off of one side, you'll produce more on that side.  I wore a bracelet and switched it from side to side to remind myself which side I finished on.  If you feed for 15-20 on one side and finish on the other, then the finishing side probably doesn't have as much demand as the other side.  If you aren't already, alternate which side you start/finish on.

Answer 11

Yes, is your baby favoring one breast more than the other?  Put him/her on the larger one first and longest when feeding...good luck...