Breast size with #2 (and tandem)

[CoBabyMaker]

I am wondering if your breast size changed again with #2 while nursing. I am due in July and at this point DD1 is still nursing so it looks like we will be tandem nursing. I'd love to hear if you think that made a difference too. I never took the time to find a good nursing bra and have spent the last 2 years in a nursing tank. I'm thinking that since we've probably got at least another 2 years it would be "ok" if I got a good nursing bra. Thanks!

[Nicole730]

I mostly live in my nursing tanks. I have quite a few cheap nursing bras I got at Target, but none are as comfy as the tanks. I bought one Medela Moderate Support bra that is pretty comfy, but not much more supportive (i.e. lifts up the boobs) than the tanks.

My breast size didn't get as big in the beginning the second time around, they were engorged for a day or two and then started going back to the size they were before she was born. I am not tandem nursing though. I would almost think your size won't change too much because your body is already making milk everyday and used to it.

[abiyhayil]

mine seem smaller, always being emptied =p

[ramama]

I started off with a B-cup before DD1, and when DD2 was born just under two years later and tandeming, by breasts ballooned to enormous, for me, proportions! I'm not sure what my size was since I never found a new bra that I liked, but my SIL lent me her size I and J nursing bras (which were cotton and probably shrunken, but still!). Now, I was at that size for a good amount of time, but not forever, even while still tandeming. Maybe a little less than a year or so? FTR, my bra size went up a "normal" amount with DD1, about from a B to a D, so I never imagined that my breasts would get so huge while tandeming! I guess you never can tell...

[alegna]

Mine did not change with the second pregnancy and baby. Slight engorgement in the first week maybe? But mostly stayed where they had stabilized after kid #1. (never stopped nursing)

-Angela

[Ellien C]

I definitely got bigger with number 2, but we're talking nearly A to A! Also I'm 40 and keeping weight on, so that has something to do with it also. My old nursing bras do not fit.

[Pookietooth]

Not nearly as much as with #1. I was like a 36 H then, this time I'm probably more like a DD cup, altough I am bigger than pre-pregnancy (which was smaller than pre-#1).