Getting To Know Your New Breasts After Giving Birth

By Lindsey Borchard

Bra shopping in general can be a hard and painful experience. However bra shopping right after you had a baby is on a whole new level.

Before I started working in the lingerie industry, I, like many, many women had no idea how to fit a bra, so in turn bra shopping was awful. I was stuffing my breasts in sizes way too small for me because I thought 38DD was the biggest size they made. However I have learned A LOT since then.

Bra shopping was actually a delight before I got pregnant. I didn’t need help, I knew which brands worked for me and I especially knew my breasts pretty damn well to know which ones worked and which didn’t. During my pregnancy I stuck with my all time favorite, Claudette’s Dessous bra. I only went up one band size and one cup size during my pregnancy so I didn’t feel that my breasts changed all that much. Boy was I wrong. I didn’t know how wrong until after I gave birth.

Hello Motherhood, goodbye nice rack! It’s like my breasts deflated one day out of the blue. My big round breast were now big round floppy breasts. It was depressing. I stayed in my nursing bras for the first month or so. I was still loosing my baby weight and just hanging out at home so a “real” bra wasn’t needed.

Then the Nordstrom Anniversary sale came in July. I knew I would have to put my big girl panties on and go bra shopping so I could score some deals. My Dessous from before still fit me but not like before. I was really full on top where now my entire “boob” was at the bottom. So I have a really big gap at the top of my Dessous bras. I needed a bra that would lift and cover. So, I grabbed a bunch of sale and non-sale bras of brands ranging from Chantelle, Wacoal, Freya, Natori and some others and headed to the dressing room.

When I say trying on bras after birth is frustrating, I mean trying on bras after birth is FRUSTRATING!!!! Twenty minutes later I found myself crying on the dressing room floor ready to never wear a bra again just so I didn’t have to suffer through the process anymore. Then I met Cindy, my bra angel. Who literally saved my breasts. She helped me understand that I need to learn how to love my body all over again, I had a new shell, a shell I was not used to. Then she promised me she would help me. She plucked, lifted, separated and after trying on 20 bras and stopping to feed a crying baby. I finally found two that I LOVED.

Meet my best friends, Natori “lynx” and Chantelle Intimates “C-Chic Sexy”. Both lift and support without feeling like I have a ton of bra on. Both are SUPER comfortable with fully adjustable straps and more then three rows of hook and eyes. Just look at them. They are beauties and more importantly I feel beautiful in them.

Natori

Chantelle

Cindy said something to me that I still try to remember when I feel ashamed of my new body. This new body I have now, full of floppy boobs, healing stretch marks and weight that will probably take a lifetime to take off, created life. I have this new body because I gave life to someone. I produced, grew and literally pushed life out of me. And that in itself is pretty spectacular.