Physiological changes at women during and after pregnancy
1st trimester
Practically from the moment of conception the female organism starts to prepare for a birth and feeding by a breast. Many women notice the changes occurring to mammary glands even before to the first delay of menses. Thus, swelling of mammary glands can serve as the first signal, that you are pregnant.
Soon, the quantity of a fatty fabric in mammary glands and quantity of circulated blood, that promotes growth of dairy channels, increases. Many women feel some weight in the field of a thorax as the breast becomes harder. Veins on a breast can become more appreciable, dummies to increase, the prepapillary circle becomes darker.
How to facilitate the state at this stage:
Buy new bra.
Limit the use salt, as it keeps moisture and leads to puffiness.
2nd trimester
Approximately after achievement of the middle of term mammary glands get the necessary volume for manufacture of milk. Because of increase in volume there can be extensions or an itch.
Breast after a birth
Right after branches of a placenta the prolactin hormone, signaling mammary gland that is time to make milk, starts to be developed. Formation of milk is stimulated with the further sucking movements of the baby, therefore if you plan to nurse, start to it do as soon as possible.
With the advent of the milk the breast swells considerably, becoming heavy and may be covered with pimples and it can itch.
To facilitate unpleasant sensations, it is possible to do the following actions:
If you plan to continue to nurse, in the first some days reduce stagnation of milk to a minimum as it will provide good formation of new milk.
If you do not plan to nurse, it is recommended one day prior to a birth of the child and all next week to carry a rigid sports bra.
Whether the breast will return to its antenatal condition?
After you have taken away the child from a breast, the rests of milk will be absorbed by your organism. Dummies will come back to the former size. The breast also will come back to antenatal volume if you come back to antenatal weight. There is one “but”: the breast will not look so elastic as up to sorts, and nothing can be done here.