Does BF'ing = a bra 24/7? I like to let them hang & be comfortable+

Re: Does BF'ing = a bra 24/7? I like to let them hang & be comfortable+

• haylo33 member

  May 2014

  I wear a cami with a built in bra. That way I don't need a real bra but it is tight enough to hold in my breast pads

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• CNYBride05 member

  May 2014

  I've never leaked

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• ejb23 member

  May 2014

  I stopped leaking after a few weeks and could go braless

  
  
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• mommatotwo2 member

  May 2014

  I pretty much went braless my whole 12 week maternity leave. Sometimes I'd leak buckets early on. Slept on a towel and changed my shirt! Leaking subsided for the most part within 6 or 8 weeks. Just small leaks thereafter.

  

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• Myaflowers member

  May 2014

  I wear t-shirts around the house with no bra. I only leaked occasionally after the first month or so, and I would just put on a clean shirt if that happened. I hate wearing bras around the house!

  
  

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• Soon2BMrsN member

  May 2014

  I never really leaked after the first couple of weeks, but nursing totally changed me. I used to go braless all the time, and now I wear one 24/7, even when I'm not BFing a baby. Sigh.

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  May 2014

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• babym6705 member

  May 2014

  JandACoffee said:

  I leaked from the opposite side during letdown till DD was 15 or 16 months old. Actually I was still spraying milk from the opposite side till then. Just in the last couple months have I stopped wearing a bra to bed because it was just too much of a pain to try and stop the leaking from the opposite side without having a breast pad held in place by a bra. She was still nursing at night though a bunch up till 15 months when I night weaned and the morning nursing session was the worst for leaking/spraying. Now that DD is down to twice a day at 17.5 months I don't leak nearly as much and I can just hold something in place as needed. I've never even had an oversupply. My boobs are just extremely overactive with the letdown. You're just gonna have to wait and see what happens. Everyone is different.

  I'm only at 6.5wks but I have this issue too during let down. It's so annoying, even with a breast pad, I leak through my bra and soak my shirt.
  

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• MomIn2013 member

  May 2014

  Just get couple of really comfy nursing tanks or nursing sleep bras. I wore a sleep bra pretty much 24/7 for maybe the first 6 months, but it was partly due to leaking (I'd only leak in the morning just before waking up, so I'd wake up soaked unless I had pads in), and partly because my nipples were always pretty sensitive, and the soft cotton bra felt better than my shirt, the sheets, etc. rubbing against them. For the last several months I'm back to my bra-less comfort, though - I only wear a bra when I leave the house.

  

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• TeacherVicky member

  May 2014

  You won't necessarily leak. I did for one week with DS and 2 week for DD. 

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• opheliainwaders member

  May 2014

  Seconding the nursing tanks rec. FWIW, I can go braless now with no leaking, but it gets uncomfortable if DD hasn't nursed in a while - then I need some sort of support.

  

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