[DomerJen]

One thing I'm dreading-but-fascinated with is that your nipples change so much. Anyone know when they get really large and turn colors?

 

[Devaskyla]

I really don't remember...weird. Don't think mine got large, the areola just got darker.

 

[madrone]

Mine are already getting darker, but not larger. A photographic book of pregnancy that I have (Lennart Nielsson's A Child Is Born) says that they'll start changing at about our time now. But I really thought it was later with my two children, more like after 20 weeks. Maybe I just don't remember correctly?

 

[PNWmama]

Mine started darkening this time before I even got a postive pregnancy test. With my son it seemed like they changed later on in the second trimester.

 

[vanessab23]

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Originally Posted by PNWmama Mine started darkening this time before I even got a postive pregnancy test. With my son it seemed like they changed later on in the second trimester.

both times for me, I noticed the montgomery's tubercles (is that what they're called-- or "glands" maybe) were popping out within a few days/weeks of getting a BFP. These look like white and pink pimples, for lack of a better term-- so mine already look pinker (not darker yet, i think that does come later at least for me) and spotted

even DH noticed-- when he saw the "pimples" around week 6, he goes, "oh, ok-- you are pregnant!"

p.s. my areolas are already large to begin with.....

 

[filiadeluna]

Mine started getting darker and more bumpy around 8 weeks. They haven't changed much since, but my entire breasts started getting bigger at 5 weeks. They are very swollen (HUGE). LOL.

 

[G&B'sMama]

Mine got larger with my first pregnancy and never went back! I noticed they were darker soon after I found out I was pregnant with this babe- and just a couple weeks ago I also noticed all the Montgomery's tubercles.

 

[madrone]

Are the Montgomery tubercles just around the outside of the coloring?

 

[kohlby]

I'm not sure. Mine changed slowly when I was pg with DS and I don't think they every went back to normal. However, I've been pg and/or nursing for 6 years straight now. The entire breast is more perky than it used to be but still haven't become much larger. I'm 10 weeks.

 

[baileyandmikey]

mine got bigger... ugh not what i needed, but the color change thing doesn't happen for me until later on.

 

[vanessab23]

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Originally Posted by madrone Are the Montgomery tubercles just around the outside of the coloring?

there are usually ON the areola-- for me, just outside the perimeter of my nipples

 

[My*Scorpio]

Mine have already started to get darker.

 

[madrone]

Thank you Vanessa for answering my question. I guess I've never seen my Montgomery tubercles then.

 

[aja-belly]

mine have already started getting darker and thicker. they were very dark and huge and thich (like the skin was thick) before my son was born. i have no idea when they changed. gradually i guess. i've been nursing since he was born (alot). my boobs are alot fuller and perkier, too. they were getting quite long....