[chrishoney]

I got pains and tenderness with some lumps under the aureola and nipple after a month or two, but didn't develop what I think of as true "breast buds" until 3 or 4 months. I say this because my right breast developed faster than my left. At 3 to 4 months I had a very noticeable and palpable mass of glandular tissue under the right nipple but only had much smaller lumps that were more spread out at that point, in the left breast. This is partly semantics on my part, since it's most likely all a continuum of growth and development, and any time you can palpate glandular tissue it could be considered a 'breast bud.'

Now, I finally have a discrete 'bud' under the left that it is still smaller than the right, but catching up. I tried using a topical PM cream only on the left for a while so that could have helped the left preferentially compared to the right, but that's just a guess/wishful thinking. Now when I squeeze my fingers together under the right nipple, there is a 1 to 1.5" wide mass there, while under the left it's probably more like .75 to 1" at this point.