22-05-2012, 19:48
Hi,
Thanks for the replies!
Feather_rose: I've no idea if the company has gone belly up I guess I was worried in the recession maybe that's why they never answer my calls or get back to me. I'm pretty sure I've seen people talking on the forum more recently about having been in contact so I think they're ok (I really hope so anyway!!)
My morning swelling seems to have slowed down a bit I think. I mostly go by bra fit rather than measuring all the time because I don't want to get disheartened if I start to stall a bit.
As for Brava, I used their dome size estimator to know which size to get from ebay (although actually I was borderline, so I'm glad I went for the large!) whatever stats I put in it never suggests XL so I'm a bit confused about how they work out their sizes. They really don't give out much information, I guess so that you buy direct from them. If I put my current evening stats in then it basically thinks I don't need Brava ( i guess cos it includes swelling still as well as tissue)
lled34aa - when i started this journey I was 28 inches below and 32 across the bust making me a 32AA. Now when I take off the domes I'm 36-36.5 across the bust. Mostly when I've been doing long stints over the weekend (I generally do about 16-17 hours Fri, Sat and Sun night by wearing a bit longer on the sat morning, starting late sat afternoon, then again on sun afternoon.) This swelling stays a lot so week on week it's progressed quite a lot. Only difference I can see is that my domes are wide-large. My nipples don't seem to swell up as much as many other people have talked about so I think most of the swelling is in the boob tissue. It's a pretty rounded shape and I'd say close to the edge most of the way round. I think the width would make a difference to the measurements too. There's no way I can fit this into my old bras so maybe yours are more stretched than you realise!
I'm just really really hoping that at least some of this swelling will stay. Having seen them so beautiful and large for the last few weeks I'm trying to stay realistic about the end result but I'm pretty sure I'll be disappointed to some degree. I guess there's always noogling if they're still not big enough!
Thanks for the replies!
Feather_rose: I've no idea if the company has gone belly up I guess I was worried in the recession maybe that's why they never answer my calls or get back to me. I'm pretty sure I've seen people talking on the forum more recently about having been in contact so I think they're ok (I really hope so anyway!!)
My morning swelling seems to have slowed down a bit I think. I mostly go by bra fit rather than measuring all the time because I don't want to get disheartened if I start to stall a bit.
As for Brava, I used their dome size estimator to know which size to get from ebay (although actually I was borderline, so I'm glad I went for the large!) whatever stats I put in it never suggests XL so I'm a bit confused about how they work out their sizes. They really don't give out much information, I guess so that you buy direct from them. If I put my current evening stats in then it basically thinks I don't need Brava ( i guess cos it includes swelling still as well as tissue)
lled34aa - when i started this journey I was 28 inches below and 32 across the bust making me a 32AA. Now when I take off the domes I'm 36-36.5 across the bust. Mostly when I've been doing long stints over the weekend (I generally do about 16-17 hours Fri, Sat and Sun night by wearing a bit longer on the sat morning, starting late sat afternoon, then again on sun afternoon.) This swelling stays a lot so week on week it's progressed quite a lot. Only difference I can see is that my domes are wide-large. My nipples don't seem to swell up as much as many other people have talked about so I think most of the swelling is in the boob tissue. It's a pretty rounded shape and I'd say close to the edge most of the way round. I think the width would make a difference to the measurements too. There's no way I can fit this into my old bras so maybe yours are more stretched than you realise!
I'm just really really hoping that at least some of this swelling will stay. Having seen them so beautiful and large for the last few weeks I'm trying to stay realistic about the end result but I'm pretty sure I'll be disappointed to some degree. I guess there's always noogling if they're still not big enough!