Does breastfeeding make breasts sag sooner?

Not necessarily. Sagging breasts are a common result of aging and gravity. Sagging breasts are determined by weight gain, genetics and skin elasticity. Avoiding excessive sun exposure and smoking will increase skin elasticity and weight training (particularly focussing on the upper body, though it is important to weight train for the entire body) will help to increase the pectoral muscles to lift the breasts. As well, wearing proper, yet not constrictive and well-fitting support will assist in this. If you take care of your weight and health in these ways you are unlikely to have breasts sagging any earlier than someone who has never been pregnant or breastfed and who does the same things. Someone who does NOT do these things is as likely to have a problem with sagging breasts, earlier or later whether they have breastfed or not.

Yes!! From personal experience and from notes of other mothers. But so does the extra weight in the breast from weight gain during the pregnancy and after when the breasts fill up with milk. They stretch and may cause stratch marks on your breasts therefore the lack elasticity makes them sag too.

Not in my experience - I am nearly 54 yrs old yet my breasts (36C on a 100lb frame) do not sag in the slightest – nipples still happily pointing skywards too! I’m sure this is because I have always worn an under-wired bra. I didn’t know that you shouldn’t, so I wore one throughout two pregnancies and whilst breastfeeding both children!

I also think the closeness of the babies’ arrival may have helped in maintaining good tone to the breasts. The first child was only four months old when the second was conceived, so they never had a chance to reduce in size (the breasts that is, not the babies - they both began at 9lb + and grew at an amazing rate). Be warned though - nothing other than my milk passed her lips until she was 6 months old, so never rely on the theory that breastfeeding delays conception – it doesn't always!

I do think the longer you feed the children, the better it is for your body. I didn’t have time to wean the first before the second arrived, so they adopted a policy of ‘baby first’ until my daughter weaned herself a couple of months later. The boy didn’t give up until he was past his second birthday. I am just so pleased that the result seems to be young looking breasts that don’t slide into my armpit when I lay on my back!

All these years later, that same daughter is most now envious and admits that she wishes she had not used a bottle for her little ones. Her body is in a worse state than mine, and she’s not yet 26.

no my sister brest feed her 2 kids and one on the way and her boobs aint saggy and it made her loose weight quicker .and my mam breast feed me and my mam 52 and boobs aint saggy!!!!!!

and it healthter for baby more nutrition.

Yes it does. But it's healthier for the baby

I don't think so. I think that how you treat your breasts and genetics are the major factors. I know quite a few older women who have breast fed on my husbands side of the family and none of them have noticeably saggy breasts. I breast fed both of mine and for some reason with each pregnancy my boobs get bigger and firmer. The only woman that I know that breast fed and had saggy boobs was my great grandmother, and she was in her 60's when I was born. I'd say hers were due to age more then anything else.

No but wearing a bra and smoking does.
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It can depend on how long the mother was bresatfeeding. Whether she had a steady stream of newborns, or if she gave breastmilk to babies. That's one of the reasons the tribal women you see in National Geographic have such saggieness, they have spent a lifetime help give milk for the village.

Not a definate yes of course. It all depends on you and your body. Me and three of my friends had kids within three months of each other 2 years ago. One didn't breastfeed, and her breasts shrunk smaller than they were to begin with (she was a b cup in high school and now wears a)
The rest of us breastfed for approximately 8 months. One's breasts sagged, ones didnt change at all, and mine GREW!

I havent been breastfeeding for over a year now and my cup size is still 2 sizes higher than they were before the pregnancy.

Breastfeeding doesn't make a difference, its the being pregant and your breasts filling up with milk which causes this.

You need to ask another question, too --
Does breast feeding have any beneficial effect for the breasts?

The answer is yes -- breast feeding has a strongly protective effect against breast cancer.

he is right

Yes, it can do, but that doesn't mean it will happen to everyone, because genetics and weight-gain in pregnancy have an effect too. Just from my own experience, and from that of my friends, those that breast-fed ended up with saggier boobs, those that breast-fed AND put on too much weight have got the saggiest boobs of all. The bottle-feeding amongst us was a similar story (i.e. excessive weight-gainers ended up with saggier boobs) but not as saggy in each scenario as the breast-feeders.

The secret is not to gain excessive weight during pregnancy. You only need 300 cals per day extra and that's only in the last trimester. Don't eat for two!

Ok breast feeding is obviously natural, but don't worry too much about being a bottle-feeding mum - formula has improved a lot in the last ten years, and a lot of the breast is best studies don't take into account the fact that breast-fed babies are more liekly to come from higher socio-economic families so may have a better start in life anyway. Plus there also research showing that breast milk (especially in mothers over 30) contains parabens and other chemical nasties.