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Re: I found this pretty depressing...
« Reply #30 on: January 04, 2008, 12:49:39 PM »
The baby is only 10 months old now and she was only breatfeeding for a few weeks when she noticed the change.  S

he says was the left breast that the baby preferred, I wonder if the mother is right handed and found it easier to hold the baby with the right arm. 

Apparently most women's breasts are a slightly different size, and certainly that could vary quite a lot during feeding if the baby has a preferred breast, which often happens. But 6 months after birth isn't long enough for your breasts to have recovered naturally from pregnancy and lactation changes - I'm quite amazed that a surgeon would perform surgery that soon.
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Re: I found this pretty depressing...
« Reply #31 on: January 04, 2008, 12:59:33 PM »
I've never heard of women getting permanently lopsided breasts from nursing a baby, although they do make it clear from the beginning that you need to start feeding on alternate sides each time.  I thought the idea was just to keep one breast from becoming engorged with milk? Or from ceasing to produce enough milk because it was unused?

At any rate, this woman had already gotten implants before she had the baby.  If she was unhappy with her breasts before, it's unlikely she'd be happy with them after pregnancy, breastfeeding or no.  She's a model (so I assume she looks pretty good) who is dissatisfied with her looks at 28.  How likely is she to be satisfied with her looks at 45?  She brags about how she only gained one stone in pregnancy, not because she was obese or trying to do the best thing for her and her baby's health, but because she thought it was important to look good and to wear non-maternity clothes home from the hospital.  She feels new mothers who don't share her priorities are "letting themselves go" and to blame if they develop depression.  A tad cruel perhaps?

Edited to say: my mistake - it was another mother later in the article who said she only gained 14 pounds and left hospital in regular jeans.
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Re: I found this pretty depressing...
« Reply #32 on: January 04, 2008, 02:12:23 PM »
I'll agree that it's not healthy to gain loads of weight during pregnancy, it's also not healthy to starve yourself in order not to gain weight-for you or your baby.  And it's my personal opinion that people shouldn't beat themselves up or having unrealistic ideas about losing weight after you have a baby.  It's perfectly natural to gain some weight and it's perfectly natural to take some time getting rid of it.  I hate seeing celebrities like Mylene Klaas looking super trim five minutes after giving birth because I think it just makes other women feel bad for not being the same.  Your body goes through massive changes being pregnant and having a baby and breastfeeding.  Putting even more pressure on yourself to lose the weight or not gain any in the first place just can not be a good thing in my opinion-especially if some people are going as far as plastic surgury to make it all happen even faster.

I'm not against plastic surgery, if it makes you feel better about yourself, but personally I just don't have that drive for perfection.  Sure I dye my hair and have lost a couple of stone in the last year, but bottom line is that I look pretty much like what I am-a 43 year old mother of three.  I'm okay with that, my husband is okay with that and the way I figure is that if other people don't like that then I probably wouldn't like them either. 


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Re: I found this pretty depressing...
« Reply #33 on: January 04, 2008, 09:40:50 PM »
I'll agree that it's not healthy to gain loads of weight during pregnancy, it's also not healthy to starve yourself in order not to gain weight-for you or your baby.  And it's my personal opinion that people shouldn't beat themselves up or having unrealistic ideas about losing weight after you have a baby.  It's perfectly natural to gain some weight and it's perfectly natural to take some time getting rid of it.  I hate seeing celebrities like Mylene Klaas looking super trim five minutes after giving birth because I think it just makes other women feel bad for not being the same.  Your body goes through massive changes being pregnant and having a baby and breastfeeding.  Putting even more pressure on yourself to lose the weight or not gain any in the first place just can not be a good thing in my opinion-especially if some people are going as far as plastic surgury to make it all happen even faster.

I'm not against plastic surgery, if it makes you feel better about yourself, but personally I just don't have that drive for perfection.  Sure I dye my hair and have lost a couple of stone in the last year, but bottom line is that I look pretty much like what I am-a 43 year old mother of three.  I'm okay with that, my husband is okay with that and the way I figure is that if other people don't like that then I probably wouldn't like them either. 

Succinctly put Mindy.  You expressed my views better than I managed to myself.
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