Should I get breast implants?

[Anonymous]

If you plan to BF with a second child, then maybe not. Also, implants interfere with mammograms.

[Anonymous]

Um, nipple guy? I don't think she's talking about doing this to please a man. She never said her husband wanted her to do it. She said SHE wants to be happy with the way her breasts look (both with clothing and without, I assume).

[Anonymous]

my vote is no. as a person who has had to have four surgeries for medical problems, i just can't imagine undergoing surgery for this reason. it's risky and painful. and while i think it is very important that you do things to make yourself happy and increase self esteem, i honestly question why attractive breasts would do this for you.

op, i just think that you will be doing this to conform to artificial, unrealistic, and oppressive standards of beauty. just because we've all internalized those standards does not mean we do things like this "for ourselves."

don't let the culture trick you into mutilating yourself, op. that is what i really think.

[Anonymous]

I did it 8 years ago, and wish I hadn't. No problems with breast-feeding (thankfully), I just don't like having something artificial in my body. After I finish nursing my last kid, I want to get them out. I can guarantee they won't be looking so hot, but I don't care anymore!

[Anonymous]

It's only been a year, give it time. If I told you how long I'd been nursing my DS you'd probably send me to the looney bin....but my DS is rarely sick and growing like a weed so wtf am I to complain?

On the other hand, my breasts have so much room to complain that it's not even funny. I was a B on a good day (aka the day before my period, heh), AAA at my absolute thinnest, but now....well, it's fug, lemme tell you. But at least I'm not a droopy DD *consoling self*. Course, they can shove that boob right up into a bra and I'm working with air in mine. Thank god DH is an ass man!

Appreciate the incredible sacrifices you've made for the betterment of your DC, give things time- your body, brain and hormones- finish having kids, then see where you stand with the titsitch (just now made that awesome terminology up ). GL.

[Anonymous]

PP here- BTW, I haven't ruled out getting breast implants myself. For now, I know I feel far more ... accepting of my body than I did at a year PP, but it would still be great to pack these bad boys with big, fat implants- I've earned it, no? I just don't know if I want the potential and probable complications that frequently accompany implants. A year after DS was born I was still a mess in more ways than one. Now at 2.5 years after that, I feel pretty great....booblessness notwithstanding . I tell you one thing; the way they look will be scary after I nurse the next one but it will still totally be worth it. Why should I sacrifice my DC's health because I'm so shallow and vain???? GL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:my vote is no. as a person who has had to have four surgeries for medical problems, i just can't imagine undergoing surgery for this reason. it's risky and painful. and while i think it is very important that you do things to make yourself happy and increase self esteem, i honestly question why attractive breasts would do this for you.

op, i just think that you will be doing this to conform to artificial, unrealistic, and oppressive standards of beauty. just because we've all internalized those standards does not mean we do things like this "for ourselves."

don't let the culture trick you into mutilating yourself, op. that is what i really think.

While I vote "No" for this woman to have breast implants (too early in life for her), I want to address the issues in the above post. I am a mom of 3, very au naturale in most every area of my life... yet I dream of getting breasts implants *for myself*. I have lost all the volume in my breasts (stretched the skin during pregnancy and burned all the fat from years of breastfeeding). What I am left with is deflated balloons. I hate them. They don't affect my self esteem anywhere except the bedroom. My wrinkly old boobs sap my enthusiasm. Even my little girl has asked why they are so wrinkly and saggy. For me, it wouldn't be mutilating myself into an unrealistic image. It would be making me normal again.

[Anonymous]

Do it, but wait until you are finished having children. Because....
you get the implant, you get preg., you breast feed, the milk has to be stored somewhere and skin will be stretched. Than you'll have sagging BIG breast.
Just wait a bit.

[Anonymous]

My best friend in college worked in a nursing home during the summers, where she had to bathe the elderly residents. She and I are both D/DD. I remember her telling me how great the old women with small breasts still looked. The larger breasted women, not so much. Think "rocks in socks." For me at 42, sadly, the writing is on the wall.

I guess my point is that life is long. Consider it.