Let's Talk About the Girls, Brought to You Today By the Letter H

No, not the kids.  Those girls.  I may be short, but I have always been larger in the breasts, or at least appeared that way.  At 4'10" tall, even when I was a 34B I looked huge, and now that I have kids I AM huge.  I just didn't realize how huge.  I have noticed that in addition to my son being huge and causing my back to ache, something else has been at work, something more insistent.  I need new nursing bras.  Some of the bras I have date back to Trout, and they are quite stretched out and dilapidated from all the use they've gotten over the years.  Without good support, my girls are doing a number on my back.  BigDaddyFish has even asked me to get new nursing bras, since he noticed the bad condition of mine, though I think our motivations might be a tad different.

I had been wanting to get measured by someone who knows what they are doing and finally shell out the $$ to get myself some good bras, and for a long time I didn't have a clue where to go to get such a thing.  But then I saw an ad in our local paper for a store called Cheryl's Health Boutique, and I remembered that my grandmother shopped there for her mastectomy bra and prosthesis and she had suggested that I try there because they sell nursing stuff and really know what they are doing, but I never took it to heart.

Now, it's a bit embarrassing to admit that at 36 years old you shop for underwear at the same store as your grandmother did, but then again, I'm in a situation where I need the same support structure as an Eastern European mother of ten does once she hits middle age.  Utilitarian concerns trump appearance.  Trusses are what's needed here.  So I went to the home of the certified structural support experts.

A wonderful, helpful, professional salesperson took me in the private fitting room and measured me, and then disappeared for about 5 minutes.  She came back with 3 bras and a camisole.  No wandering about for me, pawing through racks of bras in search of the one full figured bra the store carries.  No looks of "You are joking, right?" when you ask for your size.  Easy.  One of the bras was a sleep bra, and that and the camisole were not very supportive themselves, so I said no about those since what I bought while pregnant will suffice for sleep, but I am now the proud owner of two brand-spanking new support structures - one with a wire, one without, in size:

38 H.  H.  H as in huge.  Humongous.  How in the Hell do you hold those damn things up.  H.  I didn't know they had sizes that big.  But they do.  And I now own two of them.  They aren't pretty.  They are white.  They look like something your grandmother wore in the sixties, the girdered support structure to lift and separate even the heaviest of racks.  They are a complex arrangement of elastic and wire and stiff spandexy fabric.  The shoulder straps are an inch wide and the back has five rows of hooks and eyes.

And they hold the girls up.  I highly recommend going to get professionally fitted if you are of the fuller persuasion.  If you are in or reasonably near Montgomery County, Maryland, Cheryl's is the place to go. 

Holy Hell are they comfortable.  My girls are happy. 

So is my back.

Comments

[Kristen]

Hoooolllly. Helll!

Glad to hear they are "up where they belong" :)

[Summer]

You've got me topped, but just barely. At my lactating largest, I was a 36H... but then again, I am a lofty 5'2", so if we're comparing things proportionately you definitely win.

The nice thing is that now that I'm back down to my normal 34DD, I feel positively petite and perky.

And I can highly recommend the Dorne Corset Shoppe in Silver Spring for any readers in southern MoCo or DC....

I'm glad you're getting the support you need!

[crazyjane]

i can sympathize. with my first i was an E cup. number 2 brought an alarming G cup. i was horrified to find there existed an I cup with my 3rd. and last, thank god, because at the rate i was going my girls would have taken over the world if there had been a #4!