Nursing pads are soft disposable discs made to slip inside the bras of breast feeding mothers. They soak up any milk that leaks out in-between feeds. I wore these while breast feeding otherwise I’d have looked like a competitor in a wet T-shirt competition. Not a good look when you’re pushing a trolley round Sainsbury’s. Following my cancer treatment I felt too uncomfortable to wear bras and so wore soft tops and vests. These were practical but not very flattering, especially as the one remaining nipple stood to attention through the too soft material, drawing the eye to it and thence to the other impoverished boob.
Most lay folk don’t discriminate between their nipple and their areola (the dark bumpy skin surrounding the nipple); it’s all one and the same to most of us. However, with certain surgical procedures it is possible to have the nipple removed and the areola saved. I had this and now that the wound is healed and the scar shrunk to near invisible I am impressed with the result. However, my ‘nipples’ are not symmetrical; one looks like a raspberry, all ripe and ready, and the other looks like a raspberry that some rotter has trodden on. Until I can wear a padded bra, everyone can see the difference through T-shirts and jumpers. Thank goodness for nursing pads. I can slip these in under my crop top to produce a smooth symmetrical outline. Don’t know why no one thought of it before.
N IS ALSO FOR NIPPLES
If you don’t fancy nipple reconstruction and nursing pads feel too mumsy for you, you could opt for stick on nipples. The breast care nurse told me about these on my second visit to the clinic. Stick on nipples. I couldn’t concentrate. Sure, you might look good in a T shirt but what happens when you want to ‘get jiggy with it’. Would the nipples stay on? Would the phrase ‘Do you swallow?’ take on a whole new meaning?
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