https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:52:39 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-do-your-boobs-feel-normal-again#post-1082700 Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:32:25 +0000 heartonastring 1082700@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm 4.5 months pp and had MAJOR nipple trauma when we first started BFing, but they feel fairly normal again now. However, I can't lay on my stomach, not even for a second, without pain (last week I dropped something under my bed and was trying to lay on the floor to get it and I had to put a pillow under my boobs because they hurt so much, even for that brief amount of time). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-do-your-boobs-feel-normal-again#post-1082687 Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:28:30 +0000 lovehoneybee 1082687@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think it was around 3-4 months. Around the same times the nipples stopped being constantly hard. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-do-your-boobs-feel-normal-again#post-1082686 Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:28:20 +0000 JerricaBenton 1082686@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh man. LO is 7 mos and my nipples don't feel normal. I really don't expect them to until we're done nursing. They feel much better than in the beginning, but still way more tender than before. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-do-your-boobs-feel-normal-again#post-1082647 Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:16:47 +0000 Foodnerd81 1082647@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sunshine83: yes! I wrap my towel around my ribs under the boobs- it's a good look! Plus the towel rubbing and pressing on them usually makes them start leaking anyway. I'm really glad I only have another month or two and not another year of this! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-do-your-boobs-feel-normal-again#post-1082282 Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:26:11 +0000 sunshine83 1082282@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I remember that horrible feeling. I think it went away around 8 weeks or so. I couldn't stand a towel to touch my nipples and I wondered if that yucky feeling would ever go away. It does and they toughen up a lot. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-do-your-boobs-feel-normal-again#post-1078322 Wed, 11 Sep 2013 07:01:16 +0000 mrs.cookie 1078322@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Resolved around 3-4 months I think? I found that cloth breast pads were a lot more comfy than disposable ones, if that helps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-do-your-boobs-feel-normal-again#post-1078309 Wed, 11 Sep 2013 06:53:09 +0000 Adira 1078309@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: Yep!!! Mine were like that ALL THE TIME. It totally sucked. Wearing nursing pads in my bras has really helped and they are no longer standing at attention all the time, which is nice! And I try to adjust them in my bra so that the nipple is squished flat as opposed to to the side, which really hurts. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-do-your-boobs-feel-normal-again#post-1078298 Wed, 11 Sep 2013 06:46:16 +0000 Foodnerd81 1078298@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Adira: thanks! Yeah I forgot to mention they are permanently on alert. And they so get squished oddly under the nursing pads but a loose shirt rubbing over them is worse. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-do-your-boobs-feel-normal-again#post-1078292 Wed, 11 Sep 2013 06:41:09 +0000 Pepper 1078292@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>C is 11 weeks and they feel normal (unless I'm late to feed him, like if he sleeps longer at night). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-do-your-boobs-feel-normal-again#post-1078290 Wed, 11 Sep 2013 06:37:39 +0000 Adira 1078290@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Found it!</p> <p><a href="http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hard-nips-normal-or-not" rel="nofollow">http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hard-nips-normal-or-not</a></p> <p>So that was about 3 months ago and Xander's 6.5 months, so I'd say by 4 months, my boobs were feeling fairly normal! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-do-your-boobs-feel-normal-again#post-1078288 Wed, 11 Sep 2013 06:35:41 +0000 Adira 1078288@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wrote a post asking about this!!! Let me see if I can find it because it was within a week of me asking the question that they started to feel normal! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-do-your-boobs-feel-normal-again#post-1078237 Wed, 11 Sep 2013 05:06:36 +0000 Ra 1078237@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>B is 12 weeks and my boobs feel normal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-do-your-boobs-feel-normal-again#post-1078236 Wed, 11 Sep 2013 05:02:00 +0000 lamariniere 1078236@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had a lot of painful issues in the beginning, but the boobs felt normalish again when the issues subsided around 3.5-4 months. After that, they were just bigger until I completely weaned at 13 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-do-your-boobs-feel-normal-again#post-1078195 Wed, 11 Sep 2013 02:15:35 +0000 Foodnerd81 1078195@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ooh nice to know its only a few more months of this part! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-do-your-boobs-feel-normal-again#post-1078074 Tue, 10 Sep 2013 22:20:25 +0000 katsupgirl 1078074@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh. I remember that. I could barely wear shirts. Forget bras. I think around 4 months it felt normal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-do-your-boobs-feel-normal-again#post-1078066 Tue, 10 Sep 2013 22:12:34 +0000 Penny Lane 1078066@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>for me it was around 4 or 5 months when they felt like normal again (just bigger!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-do-your-boobs-feel-normal-again#post-1078021 Tue, 10 Sep 2013 21:46:27 +0000 winniebee 1078021@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine hurt pretty badly always felt bruised until I started pumping exclusively at 6 wks. Before then I had a crazy oversupply that my Lo could not deplete. They felt pretty normal after that (albeit huge) until I stopped Pumping. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-do-your-boobs-feel-normal-again#post-1077962 Tue, 10 Sep 2013 21:24:05 +0000 immabeetoo 1077962@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I remember thinking my nipples would be at attention for the full year. Spoiler alert: they weren't :) I think it was maybe 4 months when stuff felt back to normal? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-do-your-boobs-feel-normal-again#post-1077950 Tue, 10 Sep 2013 21:18:03 +0000 Foodnerd81 1077950@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am past the painful stage of breastfeeding, at six weeks. But while they aren't in pain my breasts still are tender, like certain shirt rub weird and I have to be ginger with them. </p> <p>I'm wondering if that's pretty much how they are until you wean or if in time they will go back to feeling normal? I can live with it as is for a year, just curious. </p>