Breastfeeding can cause breast sagging. How to prevent it?

Many mothers feel that breastfeeding will cause breast sagging. In fact, this has nothing to do with breastfeeding. The main reason is that the hormones during pregnancy make the breasts fuller and larger. After the postpartum hormones are withdrawn, the breasts become smaller. This has nothing to do with whether mothers breastfeed after delivery. Secondly, the breastfeeding habits of many mothers are different. When mothers feed their babies, some mothers feed their babies for a long time on one side, which can easily lead to excessive milk volume; some mothers do not express milk after weaning and hold them hard, which can easily lead to excessive milk volume, weight gain, and breast sagging.

If parents are not careful during pregnancy and lactation, it will indeed affect their image for a long time in the future. To prevent breast sagging, parents are advised to do the following three things: develop good lactation habits after childbirth, feed on demand, balance supply and demand, take turns feeding on both sides, and balance the milk secretion of both breasts. Healthy weight loss, don’t blindly pursue rapid weight loss. I also paid attention to this issue before having children. Regardless of the answers I found around me or online, most of them were helpless about breast sagging caused by breastfeeding. Not only are the breasts sagging, but the cup size is also a bit smaller.

But contrary to what people think, the main cause of breast sagging is not breastfeeding, but hormonal changes during pregnancy, which stretch the suspensory ligaments that support the breasts. When the breasts atrophy after weaning, the breasts are smaller than during pregnancy and lactation, but the suspensory ligaments have been stretched, causing breast sagging. Therefore, regardless of whether you are breastfeeding or not, your breasts may sag to a certain extent, but through breastfeeding, your breasts can have a certain probability of reducing the occurrence of breast cancer. It led to a very funny joke. The content of the joke is (after weaning from breastfeeding, I feel like there are two raisins hanging on my chest). Haha, it’s really funny. Indeed, if breastfeeding is not normal and care is not taken after weaning, the breasts will sag, become soft, and become dry.

So, how can we prevent these problems? The feeding time should not be too long, and the baby should not stop crying or sleep with the nipple in his mouth. Excessive long-term air sucking or low-concentration milk can easily cause breast relaxation. Pay attention to your usual sitting posture and do not sit with your chest in your arms for a long time. You should also pay attention to your sleeping posture. It is best to lie on your back as much as possible. Try not to lie on your side in one direction for a long time. This will not only easily squeeze the breasts, but also easily cause imbalance in the development of both breasts. While doing chest muscle exercises after childbirth, you should also insist on massaging your breasts every day. Through chest muscle exercises and massage, you can relieve the tightness of the breasts, thereby making the breasts fuller and effectively avoiding skin sagging. These require long-term persistence to be effective.