Breast Augmentation and Breastfeeding

Women go for breast enhancement or augmentation surgeries, but are fraught with the tension that during breast feeding with breast implant they will be facing a number of problems.. However, breast-feeding with breast implants normally is not problematic. Many women are of the idea that owing to breast augmentation there is reduction in breast feeding because there is a reduction in breast milk. However, this is more of a myth. 

One of the most common side effects of breast enhancement surgery or breast augmentation surgery is that the nipples either become over-sensitive, or simply become numb. Owing to this breast feeding after breast implant may become a very painful affair.

At times, the nerves around the areola are very badly cut or damaged. Thus the lactating mother finds it very difficult to feel any sensation during breast feeding after breast implantation.

Breast feeding and breast implant go hand in hand. It has been widely researched and found that the silicone gel in the silicone implants rarely leak, and even if they leak, they are not really harmful for the baby.

There are actually three types of incision done by the surgeons while performing augmentation mammoplasty. The incision, around the areola is not a very suitable one as it leads to the damage of various important nerves, which are necessary for milk production and thus affect breast feeding after breast implant

 The better ones are the incisions to introduce the implants under the muscle folds or near the arm-pits, so that there is decreased interference with the milk ducts. At times, the breast implants put pressure on the breast tissues. This may decrease the amount of milk that is produced after and may affect breast feeding after breast implant.

Scientists have not been able to pinpoint the actual reason for the decrease in breast feeding after breast augmentation. It maybe due to the site of the surgery, the implants themselves, or the fear in the minds of lactating mothers that the implants might be displaced during breast feeding, or that either saline, incase of saline implants, or silicone gel would get leaked into the milk stream and harm the baby. That was the root cause in the diminished activity of beast-feeding amongst women who had opted for breast implant surgeries. Another problem faced by women who have had breast implant surgeries and want to breast-feed is that breast engorgement with chills and fever may affect them.

So it is seen that if milk ducts and nerves are not cut during a breast augmentation surgical procedure then there is hardly any reason for the lactating mother, with breast implants, not being able to breast-feed her baby.

It is of utmost importance to check the weight of a baby, every week, for at least the first two months after birth, to ascertain that the baby is getting enough milk from a mother who has implants in her breasts because breast feeding with implants is always considered as an extraordinary thing.
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