What to Know
One of the most fascinating parts of pregnancy for me is the way it changes a person’s body. It’s really amazing that your body adapts to grow an entire person. Another thing that blew my mind was how the body doesn’t stop changing after you give birth. I chose to breastfeed, and I was really fascinated when I learned how that works. A mom on TikTok also recently made an interesting discovery about your breastfeeding body — you can have nipples in parts of your body that aren’t your breasts. Apparently, our bodies have something called a milk line, and it goes farther down than you’d expect!
Mom Jasmine shared her shocking discovery nearly a week after giving birth to her second child. Running on maybe three hours sleep, she had a conversation with a lactation consultant that blew her mind. As a second time breastfeeding mom, she had thought she’d heard everything.
But she was seriously wrong.
The LC asked if she had noticed any excess breast tissue, and Jasmine explained that she noticed some in her armpits. She also mentioned that her armpits had changed color. During pregnancy, your nipples and areolas get darker, which also happened to her armpits.
Despite understanding the change, the new mom couldn’t have anticipated what the lactation consultant told her.
“That’s a nipple!” was not a sentence you hear every day. “You have a third nipple in your armpit,” the consultant said.
“I’m gagged,” Jasmine admitted in her video. “You know how cows and puppies and kittens have that line of nipples?” she asked. “Humans have that too.”
The mom was one of the many people who learned about the “milk line,” something that exists in our bodies and we don’t even realize.
According to eMedicineHealth, breast tissue can grow anywhere along the milk line, which extends basically from your armpit to your groin area. “It is quite common to have breast tissue up toward and even in the armpit,” the article states. An extra nipple can grow anywhere along the area, and so can an extra breast.
Commenters on her video were also gagged.
“So we can just grow utters????” one person asked.
Another commenter revealed they’re not uncommon. “I have one on my bra line and when my daughter was born I learned she has a matching one,” they wrote.
“As someone that has literally leaked milk from both armpits it was a shock for me and the lactation consultant,” another commenter wrote.
People overwhelmingly asked if they could see the alleged armpit nipple. In a follow-up video, the mom obliged. She revealed her armpit boob, noting how it was acceptable to show that, but not her actual breast in a video.
The extra breast tissue looks exactly how you would imagine it would.
It was slightly flat on top because she had her arms down for an extended period of time. In fact, when she put her arm back down, you couldn’t even tell it was there.
Jasmine explained that the tissue became more engorged if she needed to breastfeed her daughter. She doesn’t know if it can produce milk, and made it very clear she has no interest in finding out! I can’t say that I blame her.
A lactation consultant commented on the video, writing “yes milk might could likely come out of it. The size should reduce once you are out of the engorgement phase.”
Did you know this was possible? I definitely learned something new today.
