Will my breasts get smaller after breastfeeding?

Many female friends find that their breasts become noticeably smaller after breastfeeding, so they believe that breastfeeding will cause their breasts to become smaller. In fact, this idea is wrong. During lactation, women's breasts will enlarge in order to better store milk. After the lactation period, the breasts often just return to their previous size and do not become smaller. Of course, after breastfeeding, the breast skin will become loose and the breasts will sag. These are some of the side effects of breastfeeding.

Breasts are the second characteristic of women. Many times, people think that women are beautiful because of their breasts. For this reason, many young mothers are unwilling to breastfeed their babies themselves because they are worried that their breasts will become smaller or deformed after breastfeeding. Some parents don't even give their children colostrum and choose to feed them with milk powder directly. In women who are not pregnant, breast size often depends on how much fat they contain. However, the real purpose of female breasts is to breastfeed.

From a physiological point of view, the enlargement of breasts is mainly to meet the needs of breastfeeding. After the lactation period, the originally enlarged mammary gland will gradually shrink and the secretory cavity will disappear. Correspondingly, the breasts also became much smaller. If a mother eats less and does not take in enough energy during breastfeeding, resulting in unbalanced nutrition, a large amount of fat originally stored in the breasts will be utilized. So much so that after the baby is weaned, the mother's breasts will appear much smaller than during pregnancy. For a while, it was a little difficult for our beauty-loving female compatriots to accept it.

Through the above introduction, I believe everyone already knows that the so-called breastfeeding will cause the breasts to become smaller is actually a misunderstanding. However, it is an indisputable fact that breastfeeding can cause sagging breasts and loose breast skin. In order to avoid this phenomenon, women should eat more foods containing collagen during and after breastfeeding. These foods can make the breast skin firmer, thereby preventing sagging breasts and loose skin due to breastfeeding.