# 1 woman breastfeeding 4 babies: possible? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 18, 2001, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-woman-breastfeeding-4-babies-possible/88131 "2001-10-18T02:25:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tsunamisurfer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@tsunamisurfer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsunamisurfer)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-woman-breastfeeding-4-babies-possible/88131/21 "2001-10-18T21:40:20Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by LiquidLobotomy \* **Dark lines around the belly? Really? Did they fade away? There is so much I don’t know about a woman’s body, I feel pathetic. I try to learn as much as I can (hence my entrance to this thread) but with every step forward more questions surface.** We admire your scholastic tenacity, LL–your thirst for knowledge, as it were. > [@](#): > > \*\*"… My wife and I have had breast battles before (I love them, but she hates them- she thinks they are too large and unattractive… But I have to admit it, the possibility of a temporary increase in her already able breast size excites me. Am I just a pig? \*\* What other choices have we? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-woman-breastfeeding-4-babies-possible/88131/22 "2001-10-18T21:43:22Z")
Uh, this thread has definitely taken a turn for the worse. The possibility of attracting lactating/huge breast fetishists had really not occurred to me when I posted the OP. My original question has been answered, so mods, if you want to lock this baby up, I would not object. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-woman-breastfeeding-4-babies-possible/88131/23 "2001-10-18T21:51:58Z")
Yes, the lines and stuff do fade away. In fact, when I was in the bath, I could eventually kind of scruff bits of it off. It was fun, in its own gross little way. Here’s another fun fact: It’s not only breasts that can get bigger with pregnancy. Feet can too. And that doesn’t go away. Those terrific hormones loosen up all your ligaments, in preparation for birth, and that includes the ones in your feet. Combine that with the extra weight, and your feet just sort of spread out. I went up a whole size over the course of two babies. One scourge of pregnancy that I did not get was stretch marks. I didn’t do anything special, just luck of the genetic draw. ---
**Author:** ![LiquidLobotomy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/898d66/32.png) [@LiquidLobotomy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiquidLobotomy)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-woman-breastfeeding-4-babies-possible/88131/24 "2001-10-19T12:04:03Z")
Sorry, I wasn’t trying to turn this thread into any kind of fetish thing. I’m just curious. Cher3, your feet got bigger? Wow, I take it that isn’t unique. I thought stretch marks had to do with the increased waist size. I mean to say that because the increase in the mothers waist happens so fast (relatively) the skin doesn’t have time to stretch normally, hence the stretch marks. It’s genetic? ---
**Author:** ![slipster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@slipster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slipster)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-woman-breastfeeding-4-babies-possible/88131/25 "2001-10-23T01:23:30Z")
There once was a woman that Had Triplets named Matt, Pat and Tat 'Twas fun in the breeding But hell in the feeding 'Cause there was no tit for tat. Actually, I guess this contribution is sort of beside the point. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-woman-breastfeeding-4-babies-possible/88131.md?page=1)