| A lot of women ask if they can breast feed after | | | | market. Even if the saline did leach into the milk, it is |
| Breast Augmentation Surgery. The answer is a | | | | an inert substance, with no harmful effects on mother |
| resounding yes. For the vast majority of women | | | | or baby. |
| who have a BA breastfeeding is no more difficult with | | | | Some concerns are placed on implant placement, |
| implants than without. In fact, some women who | | | | and incision site. It is said to be more optimal to have |
| have breast fed with and without implants say that | | | | the implants placed under the muscle, and to avoid the |
| breastfeeding with implants is easier! | | | | peri-aerolar incision. The reasons are simple, using |
| Breastfeeding is a growing concern with patients | | | | those guidelines, there is less interference with the milk |
| who have had Breast Augmentation surgery. In | | | | ducts which reside directly under the skin and in the |
| previous years, women who received implants were | | | | tissue above the muscle of the breast. However, as |
| married and had already finished with childbearing. | | | | with everything in science, this is not guaranteed. |
| However, more and more single women, and women | | | | There are many women who have had placement of |
| who have not finished or even begun childbearing are | | | | implant and incision in sub-optimal locations, and are still |
| having the surgery. | | | | very successful with breastfeeding. |
| In 1992 the first report of a Silicone Illness hit the | | | | It is very important to discuss your plans of |
| media. At that time there was fear that | | | | breastfeeding your baby at the time of your |
| breastfeeding with silicone implants would endanger | | | | consultation. Your surgeon will be able to work with |
| the child. There has been studies performed to show | | | | you, to get the best possible results, even if you are |
| this not to be the case. The main reason being that | | | | not planning on having children anytime in the near |
| the silicone molecule is too large to pass into the milk | | | | future. |
| ducts. | | | | Breastfeeding is still the preferred method of |
| Later, Silicone was removed from general use, and | | | | feeding a baby by the American Academy of |
| Saline implants were the only available devices on the | | | | Pediatrics. |