Booby question :) **WARNING PHOTOS OF BOOBS ADDED**

[Canada8]

oh yes! mine look just like that!! all the small bumps are raised and are sooooo dark!! they are just overall big now....but they do go back...it did the same with my DS and I was worried, but after I finished BF, they returned to the original size and colour

Mine never went back. In fact they just get bigger with each pregnancy! If I have any more kids my areolas are just going to take over the whole breast! Lol

 

[Rosered52]

Thank you for this thread! I've been kind of grossed out hy my nips, and this makes me feel like I'm not alone. For me, the aereolas have stayed light, but the nips themselves have gone super dark and kind of crusty looking. Ugh. So sexy right now.

 

[ChesMik4eva]

My nips look like brown huge versions of my old nips lol. Used to be pink and the size of a 20 cent coin, now they are huge!

I had a look at the photos and they look completely normal! My breasts started leaking at 20 weeks so it's most likely dried colustrum as someone else mentioned.

I hope my nips go back to how they used to be, lucky my boobs have grown heaps or my nips would look out of place being so big.

 

[campost006]

mine are really dark now and dry to where the left nipple is starting to peel. Oh and really itchy. They are always hard now so yea I would say it is pretty normal in pregnancy

 

[mandwrx]

Mine went back to their pre-pregnancy shape and colour after breastfeeding my girls for almost 2 years each. They stayed a little bit larger, mainly the pointy bit in the middle being longer, but I do know people who've had the whole areola grow huge and stay that way. Guess it's an individual thing and another joy of pregnancy

 

[Mrs_Snape]

Thanks all for your replies I'm very relieved that we're all normal and our boobs are normal My DH has been making fun of mine... He calls them "Oblong nipples" lol! I'll show him oblong!

 

[LilMissHappy]

mine are taking over my boobs!!! they are huge! and they swell like the original posters pics and go all puffy! not loving my boobs at the moment! xx

 

[Wyndolyn]

I know it's been a long time since anyone posted in this thread, but I'm a little spooked, myself, by my nipples.

Like Mrs_Snape, my areolas also harden/tighten/shrivel-up, sometimes so much as to make big pyramids on my breasts (which are and always have been large), whenever my nipples harden. My areolas have always done this, though to varying degrees. It happens all the time, now. I'm scared that my little girl won't be able to nurse because they'll harden and cut off milk flow.

WHY are there no resources online that talk about areolas hardening that don't deal with breast cancer?

 

[BabyDragon]

Yeah.... mine are doing all weird sort of stuff...

On my one breast, I had surgery years ago to remove a cyst...

It was supposed to be "cosmetically" done to hide the scarring, and cut along my areolas... Now that my entire areolas area has expanded and grown darker, the scar (Which you can see where the stitches were) freaking looks like the lacing on top of a foot ball!!!

Looks kind of freakish...but cool at the same time... lol

 

[sugaree13]

That's pretty much how my nipples/areolas are starting to look. Keeps freaking me out! My boobs don't look like my boobs anymore.

 

[MrsHippo]

This may sound a bit strange but I've always liked my nipples, they were the best part of my boobs

I am freaking out about them getting bigger, if they do will they go back to normal? At the moment they haven't changed much, my OH reckons they have become a bit bigger but not massively. The biggest problem is when I get cold - they absolutely KILL!! I am actually considering buying some little hand warmers to put in my bra for winter!!

 

[kbwebb]

my nipples have started to randomly started to go hard, when im not even cold LOL theyve also started to randomly go purple, not the areola, the actual nipple goes purple and feels like someones pinching them as hard as they can

 

[Butterfly89]

I saw this thread and had to post because I had the same question a couple weeks ago! Looks normal to me! This article has been sooo helpful to me: https://www.007b.com/nipple_gallery.php

Warning, it has pictures too. XD Though I'm pretty sure since we all have boobs here, that won't be a problem.

And MrsHippo - TMI probably, but mine haven't really changed THAT much. I had smallish ones before and now they are just normal size... so maybe like... a cm bigger around the areola part? I think it depends on how much your boobs grow, how your hormones react, etc etc. From what I've read, not everyone changes that much.

They *usually* fade somewhat from what they end up anywhere from weeks to a couple months after birth and sometimes shrink a bit too but sometimes they stay a bit bigger.

 

[xmaddeyesx]

My nips have always been uhh... easily excited. But since I have been pregnant they are ridiculous! They never go soft, and my right nipple(which I did have pierced but took out at 12weeks) is a lot harder than my left.
Also my partner noticed that right in the center of my nips, there's little white bits, they're hard and feel almost like a scab but not painful at all. He thinks I'm gonna start lactating soon!

 

[MileyMamma]

Mine are bigger and the actual end if my nipple is bigger too (the bit where the hole is!) they have gotten darker and a bit bumpy so I'm thinking we are all just having our boobies taken over by pregnancy, mine did got back to normal first time round

 

[twobecome3]

This may sound a bit strange but I've always liked my nipples, they were the best part of my boobs

I am freaking out about them getting bigger, if they do will they go back to normal? At the moment they haven't changed much, my OH reckons they have become a bit bigger but not massively. The biggest problem is when I get cold - they absolutely KILL!! I am actually considering buying some little hand warmers to put in my bra for winter!!

omg so painful when cold! i swam in a hotel pool recently that was chilly and i almost burst into tears they hurt so badly worst part was i wanted to warm up in the hot tub so bad and couldnt

 

[Sal76]

This is number five for me and prior to babies I was a 34 b now after 4 and before this pregnancy I was 36 e with nips staying a little darker each time this pregnancy ( now 14 weeks 2 days) they are like bloody scud missiles and nipples are super super sensitive and ALWAYS on alert lol, almost verging on painful. Must admit I'm dreading the cold weather more as I know I'm gonna look like a serious peanut smuggler!

Sxx

 

[Agiboma]

Your boobs look like mine and they are just fine and normal i used lanoline cream to get ride of teh dryness when i was breastfeeding. Remember your boobs are preparing to feed LO when they arrive, so some changes should be expected.

 

[NerdyMama]

After breastfeeding Autumn for 14 months and counting and going to do more breastfeeding with the new one I am dreading what is going to happen with my breasts. Size, fine, shape of areola, fine... but one of my friggin nipples has decided to point south from now on. So i have a sad nipple all the time... ITS FRUSTRATING!!!!!