How much do women's breasts weigh?

[Incubus]

I decided to put this here, since there is probably a lot of variation between different women, so there might not be an entirely factual answer to this question.

I know some woman are troubled by back pain because of large breasts. How much do they weigh to cause back pain? Would a similarly weighted backpack 'counter' the strain the breasts are exerting on a woman's back?

[Antigen]

I'm not sure they'd approve of me whipping the girls out and weighing them on the analytical balance at work...

[Already in Use]

So is this a poll? Won't it be biased towards women whose breasts protrude and sag enough to be weighed?

[asterion]

Well, couldn't you do a calculation using the density of flesh in question, then multiply the density by the volume of the breasts in question?

[Incubus]

You couldn't, hell I dunno, put the scale up on the bathroom counter and weigh em like that? ;) would that work? (be funny if it did :p ) Kind of just let em rest there?

[bdandhr]

Mine only weigh a teensy bit. :(

The weighing method above would work if you could lay the ol' golf ball in a sock titties on a scale, but what about those of us who are "too attached" to our titties to be able to weigh them? Besides - mine fluctuate. If I gain a few pounds, that is the last place anything extra shows up. But if I lose a few pounds, that's the first place noticeable!!! :mad:

[Cervaise]

I'm not sure they'd approve of me whipping the girls out and weighing them on the analytical balance at work...Who are They and what the hell's wrong with 'em that they wouldn't approve? :)

[Scarlett67]

Five pounds. Here's my cite:

Q: How do you make five pounds of fat attractive?
A: Put a nipple on it.

[Scarlett67]

OK, here's a better cite: (http://pregnancy.about.com/library/nweek27.htm)
The average breast before pregnancy weighs about 7 ounces and during pregnancy each breast can weigh up to an average of 28 ounces!

[sj2]

Well, in order to weigh 'um, I'd think you'd need a helper to stand behind you to umm...hold them up for you while you step on a scale and then measure sans-bust-hefter-helper. That's a mouthful and a handful to boot. Ugh, I'm ashamed of myself now...Since el hubbo is out of town, my scientific theory is untested.

I guess you could also do a liquid volume measurement if you can convince a girl to stick her asset into water...warmed of course. Perhaps we can get the "boys" measured as well...with cold water vs. warm water...prove that Seinfeld episode...

[badmana]

Five pounds. Here's my cite:

Q: How do you make five pounds of fat attractive?
A: Put a nipple on it.



Heh, well, she ain't really fat but a friend did actually weigh them and they came out to be 5 lbs....each.

Of course she's DD ~38

My Gf on the other hand is roughly 6 lbs together using...umm...non-scientific measuring.

[mcott]

Mine only weigh a teensy bit. :(

The weighing method above would work if you could lay the ol' golf ball in a sock titties on a scale, but what about those of us who are "too attached" to our titties to be able to weigh them?

Honestly, that sounds better to me than anything mentioned about "DD" or "36-38". Small and firm are much better looking breasts, IMHO, YMMV.

Sorry, but large, floppy breasts don't do a damn thing for me.

[Rabid_Squirrel]

Paraphrased from Breasttalk.co.uk (http://forum.breasttalk.co.uk/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=690&start=1) (well, it was either that or a liposuction website):

Weight each puppy in a bucket of water, taking care to completely push the bap underwater (I don't know, use skinny hands, tongs, or something). Measure the mass of water lost (in your local units of choice) each hooter displaces - either by collecting the overflow or by difference - then multiply the figure by 0.85.

Sigh, everytime I reduce an erogenous zone down to an engineering problem a little part of my labido dies. At least I learnt that the specific gravity of breast tissue is 0.85.

[CrazyCatLady]

Honestly, that sounds better to me than anything mentioned about "DD" or "36-38". Small and firm are much better looking breasts, IMHO, YMMV.

Sorry, but large, floppy breasts don't do a damn thing for me.

Umm, 36-38 has nothing whatsoever to do with breast size. That's just the size of her ribcage. The letters tell you about actual breast size. Basically, each progressive letter means an extra inch difference in the circumference of the ribs versus the bust.

[Angua]

Mine are heavy enough that an ex-boyfriend once said that my bras were obviously designed by structural engineers rather than lingere designers. They're big enough to give me some back pain...

[Iceland_Blue]

This sounds like an activity for the next Dopefest.

[Angua]

Er. Maybe not. We tend to be in public places.

[Carol the Impaler]

Ok, I actually have a scientific answer for this. At least in my situation. (Scientific because I got to read the required pathology report.)

I've had mine surgically reduced. A total of 9 lbs was removed. (What a great weight loss plan! "Lose 9 lbs in two hours! Only $31,000.00!!!")

But keep in mind that some breasts are composed of a lot of breast tissue (like mine were) which makes them heavier. Some are composed of more fat tissue, which would make them weigh less, even though they might be the same size.

[Jadis]

To add data to niblet_head's....I had reduction surgery in November of last year and they removed 7 lbs 3 oz of breast tissue, and I'm still a full C cup. So, take that as you will

[Philster]

Well my friend and coworker, Jen, had her boobage weighed during an exam for backpain and possible reduction. Her bigger than double D's came in at 8-9 lbs each. She is quite huge, yet very slim. Her sister had a breast reduction (poor kid is only 5'1") and had them reduced to a DD. She was off the charts, and topped 20 lbs total.

(Disclaimer: I only know this because my wife had a reduction, too. They've all talked about it.)

[Wile E]

When I was much younger I knew a girl who had huge breasts. She was constantly teased and was always in pain from the weight and her bra straps digging into her shoulders. She couldn't wait until she was 18 to have the surgery. I think she was actually 19 by the time she could get the surgery and she had 4 pounds taken off each side and still had c-cups. She was ecstatic.

I always thought 8 pounds total was a huge amount, I can't even imagine 20 pounds of breasts.

[WhyNot]

Umm, 36-38 has nothing whatsoever to do with breast size. That's just the size of her ribcage. The letters tell you about actual breast size. Basically, each progressive letter means an extra inch difference in the circumference of the ribs versus the bust.
Well, yes and no. DD means the measurement from around the nipples is 5 inches more than the ribcage measurement. If you're a 38DD, your ribcage measurement is 38 and your bust measurement is 43. If you're a 30DD (I was, for a while, and man is it a hard size to find!), your ribcage is 30 and bust 35. But that 5 inches on a small frame seems much bigger. By contrast, a 48DD is a fat woman with relatively small breasts.

My doctors were tracking my back pain for years in an effort to get our insurance to pay for a reduction when I was fully grown. I had back pain (lower back, mostly) from the age of 11, when I was a DD cup. When we finally had all the paperwork ready, a friend of mine took a training in a bodywork technique called Structural Therapy (similar to Rolfing, but with less pain) and asked me to be his practice model. Through ten sessions of this work, my back pain disappeared entirely. It was amazing. What he found was that my legs weren't straight underneath me (orthepedists refer to this as the Q-angle) and that my lower back was actually being pulled into a scoliosis to compensate, and that's where the pain was coming from. X-rays backed this theory up - there was indeed a very slight functional scoliosis that none of the doctors had noticed. Once my friend worked in the tissue and got my legs straighter, the pain was gone!

So, the pain wasn't caused by my humongo-boobs after all, the surgery was scrapped, and 5 years later, I'm still pain free! I feel like a freakin' infomercial, but I'm so happy with avoiding surgery.

[Evil One]

My wife is a D cup. Hers weigh about three pounds each. We determined this by having her stand on the scale...noting the weight...and then having me "assist" from behind and noting the weight difference. And no, I did not have to be told to let go.

[badmana]

Sorry, I had no idea the number doesn't mean anything in terms of size. I look at bra sizes as a monkey might look at quantum mechanics.


My wife is a D cup. Hers weigh about three pounds each. We determined this by having her stand on the scale...noting the weight...and then having me "assist" from behind and noting the weight difference. And no, I did not have to be told to let go.


This is how we, um, measured my GF. I doubt it's a very accurate measuring system but of course it's lots of fun :D

[Incubus]

WhyNot, you were a DD when you were only eleven years old? :eek: That's gotta be...unpleasant for an eleven-year old, no doubt.

A 30DD? Wow, that must have made them look enormous. I hope you enjoy them! And congrats on getting rid of the back pain!

[Draelin]

My friend used to work at a bowling alley. After hours, we used the bowling ball scale to give it a try. (Yes, we'd been drinking.)

My friend, an F-cup, weighed each breast at roughly twelve pounds. My own DD's were about nine and a half.

And WhyNot, I understand your pain, I was a D-cup in fourth grade. None of the other girls were even wearing bras yet. *sigh*

[WhyNot]

WhyNot, you were a DD when you were only eleven years old? :eek: That's gotta be...unpleasant for an eleven-year old, no doubt.

A 30DD? Wow, that must have made them look enormous. I hope you enjoy them! And congrats on getting rid of the back pain!

Yeah, it looked really weird. The reason it was 30 was that I wasn't finished growing skeletally yet, but the hormones kicked in early and fast! I hated it! Of course, I got teased no end, and the girls were far worse than the boys. 11 year old boys are mostly scared of boobies in real life - but the girls were vicious!

Once I grew into them, it looked much better. In high school, I was 38-25-38 and causing marital discord in many of my friend's parent's houses. Then I had a baby after senior year and never lost the weight. Ah, well. Still curvy as hell, just more jiggly.

[Incubus]

That's interesting- I thought breasts kind of grew in over time or something. As a guy, I know I sure as hell didn't wake up one morning with something new ;) everything showed up very gradually. Heck, I'm 24 and I'm still waiting for a full beard to grow in! (it hasn't changed much since I got it at 16 :( )

[alphaFemale]

mine happen to be large and dense. i'd estimate a pound and a half each? :o

[Finagle]

I'm not sure they'd approve of me whipping the girls out and weighing them on the analytical balance at work...


Those things are delicate. You don't want to bust it.

[Kalhoun]

I decided to put this here, since there is probably a lot of variation between different women, so there might not be an entirely factual answer to this question.

I know some woman are troubled by back pain because of large breasts. How much do they weigh to cause back pain? Would a similarly weighted backpack 'counter' the strain the breasts are exerting on a woman's back?
I worked with a woman who had five lbs removed from each one, and she was still quite curvy.

[Ethilrist]

I always thought 8 pounds total was a huge amount, I can't even imagine 20 pounds of breasts.
Easy simulation you can perform at home: Put 20 lb. of books into a backpack. Then put the backpack on backwards.

[iamthewalrus(:3=]

Easy simulation you can perform at home: Put 20 lb. of books into a backpack. Then put the backpack on backwards.
The books fell out. What did I do wrong?

[elfkin477]

That's interesting- I thought breasts kind of grew in over time or something. As a guy, I know I sure as hell didn't wake up one morning with something new ;) everything showed up very gradually. Heck, I'm 24 and I'm still waiting for a full beard to grow in! (it hasn't changed much since I got it at 16 :( )

They usually do. But you know that boy in seventh grade who grew 8 inches taller over the summer? Some bodies didn't get the memo that growing is supposed to be a relatively gradual process with some faster periods. Not to mention that some girls begin to get breasts at 13 and others at 9, so the age might not tell you much about the quickness of growth.

[bdandhr]

Although I posted above that mine are teeny, they are not so teeny that I need to stuff my bras - that look is soooooo unnatural. I will only wear unpadded bras (thus risking the frequent nipple shirt :eek: ). I am not one of those women who feels they have to embellish.

Also - I thank my size because I do not have that hump-back that some endowed women have.

I would guess my breasts at way less than a half-pound each (just off the top of my head), but they have never failed me yet!!!

[danceswithcats]

Sorry-I got hung up on the URL for Breasttalk. I'm thinking of Tom and Ray recast as OB/Gyn doctors on NPR taking calls from female listeners about their breasts. :smack:

[Telperien]

Although I posted above that mine are teeny, they are not so teeny that I need to stuff my bras - that look is soooooo unnatural. I will only wear unpadded bras (thus risking the frequent nipple shirt :eek: ).

Nipples are evil. I think mine are plotting world domination. I never thought of wearing padded bras to keep them from showing, though. I simply assumed I was going to go through life with friends always asking me if I'm cold.

I now have an urge to weigh my breasts, using scientific methods as outlined above.

[The Mermaid]

I can't believe I did this but. . . my breasts (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v86/themermaid/sparklycleavage.jpg) are a 42DD. I just weighed each one separately then together on a digital scale placed on the counter. The cold hard numbers are

Left, 3.5 lbs; right, 4.0 lbs, together 7 lbs.

My nips respond to the cold more since I got them pierced. It's like the metal conducts the cold deeper or something. JFTR, my posture is excellent, no humpback here.

[Sir Rhosis]

Didn't Bette Midler have a routine about weighing her breasts on a postal scale. I forget the punchline, somethibng to the effect of how much money it would cost to mail that amount of weight.

Sir Rhosis

[lee]

My L cups are about 15 lbs each.

[CanvasShoes]

Ok, I actually have a scientific answer for this. At least in my situation. (Scientific because I got to read the required pathology report.)

I've had mine surgically reduced. A total of 9 lbs was removed. (What a great weight loss plan! "Lose 9 lbs in two hours! Only $31,000.00!!!")

But keep in mind that some breasts are composed of a lot of breast tissue (like mine were) which makes them heavier. Some are composed of more fat tissue, which would make them weigh less, even though they might be the same size.
$31K??????????/ :eek:

Damn, I'm NEVER gonna be rid of these things am I? sigh...........................

Did your insurance at least cover 90%?

[CanvasShoes]

That's interesting- I thought breasts kind of grew in over time or something. As a guy, I know I sure as hell didn't wake up one morning with something new ;) everything showed up very gradually. Heck, I'm 24 and I'm still waiting for a full beard to grow in! (it hasn't changed much since I got it at 16 :( )
Well, I don't know about all girls, but my experience was similar to whynot's, I was a normal 6th grader one day, and then budded a bit, and then suddenly POOF, giganto boobs. They were C cups throughout highschool and my 20s, but on a small boned frame, I was 32 C. Then, after having my son and nursing him at 31 they went me several cup sizes better (ballooned up to Fs they did, I didn't even KNOW there was an F!!!).

Even though I quit nursing him when he was 9 and a half months old, the boobs never did go away, so now I'm a 34 DDD. But only cuz I'm too chubby right now, soon I'll be a 32 and I'll have to take in all my bras since it's almost impossible to find inexpensive 32DDDs (yes, I know, there are good custom bra websites out there, I refuse to spend 60-75 bucks on a single bra, thanks anyway).