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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Six months.  Would have gone longer but I was pushing 40 and wanted to try for #2 at the one-year mark.  Was also unexcited about pumping at work.

To the poster who inquired about saggy boobs: Don't believe the hype that it is pregnancy rather than BFing that causes saggy boobs.  Pregnancy probably doesn't help, but I think BFing is worse.  We just live in the era of La Leche, and the political pressure against acknowledging that is too high to buck.  I found that even six months of BFing and pumping with a hospital-grade pump made my once spectacular boobs look deflated and saggy, like those of a grandma.  [b]Even a mammographer commented on the dramatic change in eighteen months--I looked like a different person on the x-ray images.[/b]  My mother had three kids but did not BF at all, and hers didn't start to sag until her late 60s.[/quote]

Say WHAT? Did you complain about that????? That is brutal.

As for the breastfeeding vs. pregnancy....  I always kind of wondered if they just say that, but I think it's true about pregnancy. My mom never breastfed for a second, but her boobs looked ridiculously flat and saggy for as far back as I can remember. My grandmother's breasts are fairly perky still at like 80 something and she also never breastfed. My breasts are still perky in my early 40's and I nursed for years over the course of a few kids. I think a lot of this is personal. Pregnancy won't destroy everyone's breasts, but it will hurt some. It's possible that breastfeeding hurts them more, but there's no denying that for most women, the breast enlargement happens during pregnancy whether you breastfeed or not. I think it's also hormonal, as well, and not physical. Also, aging alone does a number on you. My SIL (whose breasts I have never seen in person so I cannot verify) has never been pregnant or breastfed, and she claims that her boobs started drooping in her 30's, drooped further at 40, and at mid forties are in a race for her belly button. like I said, I've never seen them and they look fine in bathing suits, so she might be lying?

Anyway, it seems pretty individual, but I just wouldn't take your one anecdote for evidence that "the man" (aka la leche league, et al) is really trying to trick you into breastfeeding your boobs into oblivion.

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