Need to give your body time to recovery from the pregnancy

Hi there-

How long an appropriate wait would be is going to vary, depending on the degree to which your breasts were affected by the hormonal surge of the pregnancy, how long you breast feed, and how quickly your body recovers once you stop breast feeding (or if you choose not to breast feed, how quickly it recovers from the pregnancy itself). I usually base these decisions on examination of my patient's breasts and a discussion of how she feels she is doing with regard to return to baseline weight and breast size/level of engorgement. Because it usually takes at least 3-4 months for this to happen, many surgeons use this as a rule of thumb, and I would generally agree.