From Heidi

My body has undergone many shifts as it grows and matures.  Each change has come and I have adjusted rather gracefully and in wonder of the magic of my body's ability to adapt in response to hormones nutrition and life.  The current change I am learning to embrace is the transformation of my breasts during the mothering of my two children.  In the reflection of the culture that saturates this country my breasts are deflated and sagging.  They are becoming the opposite of what the media impresses upon the masses as “sexy”.

I know this breast change is usual to most nursing and post nursing mamas and as I near the time for weaning my daughter I fear that the little lift and fullness that the milk allows will disappear and they will deflate and sag even further.  This is the first year that while “skinny dipping” at the river with my friends and acquaintances I felt the want to cover my breasts when I was not luxuriating in the cool water.  I felt ashamed and uncomfortable with my new breast shape and elevation.  I knew in my inner self that this shame of my breasts was bourn of misinformation and a skewed view of beauty.  I began to reach out to my information resources on the internet and re-educate my shame. 

Before I expound upon my enlightening discoveries I will tell a little about my previous relationship to my breasts. My interest in breasts began while watching my mother and her specific technique of fastening her bra as well as seeing my great grandmother collect her hefty sagging breasts up from the level of her belly button to a “societal acceptable“ height into her bra.  I remember my mother recount her grandmother telling her that “You don’t need to wear a bra until you could hold a pencil under them.” and singing an altered version of a popular song “ do your boobs hang low do they wobble to an fro can you tie them in a knot …..”.  At the time  (I was probably 5 or 6 ) I did not have a negative image of my great grandmother’s breasts and found it delightful that she could find humor in her dual-pendulum bosom.