Breasts 101, All about your boobs. Options

[Hiphop d[-_-]b]

From the magezine Seventeen. None of these excerpts are my words, just what Ive decided to share with the girls of cB who consistently post topics asking about breast abnormality. This, should cover most of what you should know. Not all, but most. Feel free to add !

Breasts 101

Despite what mammary-obsessed guys might think, the biological reason a girl grows breasts is to prepare her body to feed a baby. No worries: Small breasts can make as much as big ones !
Breasts: The fleshy part is made of fat cells, milk ducts, and tissue that supports the ducts.
Nipples: These are made of skin and nerve endings. All the breast's milk ducts lead to the nipples, and babies feed by sucking on them.
Areolas: These darker-colored circles of skin around the nipple are there to draw a baby's eye for feeding. Small bumps areound the areola ( Montgomery's glands ) lubricate the skin during breast feeding. Breast size is determined by heredity - not by how early you start developing.

#1.
There are many ways breasts can differ and still be normal, but if you're ever unsure, visit your doctor just in case.

( If anyone feels these pictures should be removed, PM me or a mod, or if i mod feels they should be removed, then please feel free to do so )

Size and Shape
Each breasts develops at its own rate; fully grown ones can even be different sizes. But if they differ by more than two cup sizes - or if one is tubular - see a doctor. It may signal a hormone imbalance.

Hair
It's fine to have a few wispy hairs on the areola. But if you have about 10 or more on either breast, or if any are bristly, see a doctor. It could be polycystic ovary syndrome (it's treatable)

Nipple variations
Nipples can project out or be inverted - both are normal. But if a nipple that was projecting out inverts or leaks fluid or blood, see a doctor. It could be an infection or a noncancerous tumor.

Stretch Marks
As breasts grow, skin fibers can stretch and snap, forming stretch marks - they're normal and may fade in a year. Try drugstore cream like Mederma or a prescription like Retin A to speed the fading process.


#2 Are they done growing ?
Whats normal
Breasts start growing about two years before a girl gets her period and take three to five years to develop. After that, breast size can be affected by weight gain or loss.
If your areolas haven't started to protrde by the time your 13, talk to your doctor

#3 What's that lump ?
Fibrocystic lump
These tender, soft cysts form the week before your period and fade as it starts. No need to see a doctor.
Fibroadenoma
This is w firm limp that doesn't go away during your period. It's likely a harmless clump of tissue, but see a doctor just in case.
Tumor
It's rare, but a hard lump that stays may be a tumor. See a doctor, but dont freak. Fewer than 1% of lumps in young women are cancerous.

[voguelove]

^no. small boobs have like a huge gap in between. i have small bewbs. =]

[jEllyBeaNs]

^ My two little lesbians are interacting!

Anywayyy
Wow kekeke thanks Belerella this was soooo informative!

um suzzette shut the HELL up!!

[Hiphop d[-_-]b]

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Size and Shape

Just a question o.o

If you have small boobs and its like not ROUND but not TUBULAR but like a between is that still doctor worthy? ;x

If they are a little pointy ( Lol ) then thats normal when they are just growing. But if they are seriously like, tubular and look like the ones in the image provided, and youre worried, ask your mom and ask a doctor (:

[dreamerOi]

If they are a little pointy ( Lol ) then thats normal when they are just growing. But if they are seriously like, tubular and look like the ones in the image provided, and youre worried, ask your mom and ask a doctor (:

Hahah okay just making sure. Got me worried there o.o

[*iNyCxShoRT*]

Thanks Bella; you're the best!

i am going to be naturally flat forever!!!

I second that

[LaLaLaLie]

just wondering my friend thinks her boobs are shrinking and she wears a size a and works out a lot is it normal for that to do that?if it is.

[gingerblossoms]

So if your boobs start devolping like 2 years before your period than I should be getting my period like really soon. I started getting boobs in the 6th grade and now im in the8th grade. (yah, im in the 8th grade and i dont have my period) Is that true for everyone because one of my friends is like flat-chested and she got her period like a month ago?

[AngryBaby]

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Size and Shape

TITTIES

[n_Oodles]

idk

[KissMe2408]

lol this is kinda helpful haha

[xwinnie]

Boobs usually get bigger after you're pregnant (but that's really far away for all of us, eh? ;D).

And for girls complaining about their flatness, um well. Try different foods and see what it does o_o

[demolished]

WTF. Haha. I never know breast can develop in certain angel. I always thought it’s supposed to sag but … it turns out to be a milk sucker.

[*x1227x*]

haha this is helpful. i thought my boobs were abnormal since one of them were bigger than the other. well thanks for sharing with us.

[Mr. Slowjamz]

too bad i`ve only seen normal ones .... i`d like to see those tubular ones though

[theINSANITYclaus...]

Damn, that explains a lot now. I've been growing boobage since I was 7...:/

Although they found breast tissue when I was like 2. But anyway...

[helloxtine]

Tumor
It's rare, but a hard lump that stays may be a tumor. See a doctor, but dont freak. Fewer than 1% of lumps in young women are cancerous.

i have a lump it's sorta like it's not exactyly and i'm still developing! do i have a tumor?

[RAWRstephishere]

Woah.

Two years.
Thats pretty much right.

They barely grew, but they started about two years before I got my period.

But Im still pretty small

[ryan_wasn't_here]

thats

interesting...

but

is

there a category for ''abnormal boobs?''

cuz that be be a bit more better..

[deletethisplease]

RADD

[deplorable]

wahhhhhhhhhhh. im gonna be flat forever and ever and ever.
meh. worst things in life, huh?
at least we dont worry about our sexual organs being too small, huh, GUYS!?! lol
jk. okay, not really.

[kimmytree]

^ You mean that's a good thing for girls?

[murderwaltz]

eww. the info was good though!

[angelrevelation]

I got really sweaty one day because we had to run a lot in the sun in PE, and afterwards these little bumps, almost like goose bumps but not quite, came up kind of just by the armpit area and a little above. If you scratched them a tiny bit of water came out. In certain lights the bumps even looked white.

They're gone now but... I was wondering what they were.

[KayleighKins]

But if you have about 10 or more on either breast

What?! I have WAY more then ten hairs around my nipple! It's not all ewy and dark and pubicy like on the picture, it's light, like on your arms or something.

You have officialy scared the crap out of me. Am I not normal?

D:

[Afrodisiac-aka-A...]

eww, ol' girl got some hairy ass tits. ima call em breasticles.


do you see the pic w/ the cone boobies. "see a doctor" rofl