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Will Breast Implant Surgery Have a Negative Effect on Pregnancy?

asked 3 years ago by Armywife in Colorado Springs Colorado
Latest answer by C. Bob Basu, MD
Question viewed 2,544 times
Tags: breast milk, pregnancy, risk

I want to have breast implants done to correct my uneven breasts. My husband and i were also planning on having another baby in about 6 months. Can i do both? Will the breast implant surgery have any effects on my getting pregnant?

19 answers to Will Breast Implant Surgery Have a Negative Effect on Pregnancy?

Best to Wait

Breast implants have a long record of safety with pregnancy and nursing. Many thousands of women have had breast implants and have gone on to become pregnant and nurse wiithout complications. Many women experience changes in the shape and size of their breasts after pregnancy, oftentimes, enough to have breast augmentation or breast lift surgery. Since you are considering pregnancy in the near future, it is wiser to postpone having breast implant surgery until after you are... more

Paul C. Zwiebel, MD
Denver Plastic Surgeon

www.pzwiebel.com

Breast implant surgery has absolutely no effect on your ability to get pregnant

But I would recommend that you have the breast surgery several months AFTER you have had your baby (and after you have finished breastfeeding, if you are going to do that). The reason is that your breasts may well change in size or shape after a pregnancy, and therefore the surgical plan will be different.

George J. Beraka, MD
Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Unlikely

While getting breast augmentation surgery won't affect your ability to get pregnant, I would recommend waiting at this point since you plan to get pregnant in a few months. Being pregnant may further change your breasts and you may require a different procedure after all is said and done.

Vishal Kapoor, MD
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon

Pregnancy may effect your breast implants

You can certainly have breast implant surgery and then undergo a completely normal pregnancy. The only concern is the effect that the pregnancy may have on the results of your implant surgery. As you probably know from your first pregnancy, the breasts undergo significant changes as a result of the hormones that are produced. This usually causes an enlargement of the breast tissue and stretching of the skin covering the breasts. For this reason, it is probably best to wait until your... more

Kenneth R. Francis, MD
Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

www.francisnyplasticsurgery.com

Breast Implant surgery will not have a negative effect on a pregnancy.

Although breast implant surgery will not have a negative effect on a pregnancy, you may want to consider waiting to have surgery until after the pregnancy. As you know from your 1st child, pregnancy does significantly affect your breast shape and size. This occurs both during and after your pregnancy. If you know you want to get pregnant in the next 6 months, you should wait until after you have had your next child. With pregnancy, you will have engorgement of the breast which should... more

David A. Dreyfuss, MD
Chicago Plastic Surgeon

Wait til after

If you are that close to having a baby it would be wise to wait until after to know what your breasts need. While there is no danger to doing it now, you might need to re-do it if your breasts change from another pregnancy.

Richard P. Rand, MD, FACS
Seattle Plastic Surgeon

Wait until your breasts are stable

Since pregnancy ,as well as breast-feeding, will have unpredictable effects on the size, shape, and symmetry of your breasts, it does not make sense to have breast surgery to try to change any of these characteristics until after your breast changes from pregnancy are complete. Your breasts may be smaller, larger, or the same size and may or may not be more sagging and asymmetric. Why do surgery only to not have predictable results because of a subsequent pregnancy?

Robin T.W. Yuan, MD
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon

Breast Augmentation and Planned Pregnancy in Six Months

Breast augmentation will not affect your ability to have children. And it should not affect your ability to breast feed. However, if you are planning a pregnancy in six months, I would recommend to hold off on your breast procedure. Your breasts will most likely change after pregnancy and breast feeding. Afterwards, one procedure can be tailored to correct your asymmetry and any post pregnancy changes.

C. Bob Basu, MD
Houston Plastic Surgeon

www.basuplasticsurgery.com

Pregancy and Breast Implants

Although breast implants will not have any negative effect on becoming pregnant or carrying a child, it is recommended to wait until after you are done having children before undergoing this procedure. During pregnancy the breasts increase in size and then decrease after breast feeding, many women also experience additional assymetry. Since there will be such significant changes to the size and shape of your breast during this time it is advised that you wait until after you are done... more

Tarick K. Smaili, MD
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon

Breast implants will not effect chances of getting pregnant

Breast augmentation will not have any effect on the chances of getting pregnant or cause any risks. There is a chance that patients will not be able to breast feed after the surgery but there is no way of determining this until they try.

Usha Rajagopal, MD
San Francisco Plastic Surgeon

www.sfcosmeticsurgery.com

Don't get breast augmentation right before a planned pregnancy.

Don't get breast augmentation right before a planned pregnancy. Breast augmentation is safe before pregnancy and you don't have to wait until after having children to have surgery, but 6 months before a planned pregnancy is probably not advisable. Breast augmentation does not have any "effect on getting pregnant" -- other than it sometimes leads to activities that cause pregnancy.

Richard H. Fryer, MD
Salt Lake City Plastic Surgeon

Breast Implants and Pregnancy

If you are planning on getting pregnant in the near future, I would recommend holding off on having a breast augmentation until after pregnancy. Many women experience large shifts in weight and changes in the size and shape of the breasts. After pregnancy, some of these breasts changes do not revert. If you wait until after pregnancy, these unwanted changes maybe dealt with at the time of a breast augmentation.

David Bogue, MD
Boca Raton Plastic Surgeon

www.drbogue.com

Breast surgery should not effect pregnancy- but consider this...

Your question is excellent. In general, your breast surgery should not have any effect on your ability to get pregnant. Plans for future children are common in breast augmentation patients, especially in my Santa Barbara breast augmentation practice. I usually explain that while your breasts may change with pregnancy and you may want some further lifting of your breasts after breast feeding, I don’t think that such plans need to preclude patients enjoying an improved body form... more

Adam David Lowenstein, MD
Santa Barbara Plastic Surgeon

Breast implants and pregnancy

I recommend that people wanting to get pregnant within the next six months (and particularly if it's a first pregnancy) wait until after that pregnancy before considering breast implants, though implants will not have any affect on you getting pregnant.

Deason Dunagan, MD
Huntsville Plastic Surgeon

Breast implants do not effect pregnancy.

Many young women have breast implants and then begin a family later in life. They can breast feed and need not worry that the implants will cause any problems. In you situation, you might want to wait until after the pregnancy because there might be changes to you breast as a consequence of pregnancy that you would want corrected. But if you are intent on having them now, there is no danger.

Vincent N. Zubowicz, MD
Atlanta Plastic Surgeon

Breast implant surgery will not affect pregnancy

Breast augmentation is the most common cosmetic surgery in the United States because it provides a consistent way for a woman to change the shape, position and size of her breasts. A breast augmentation will not affect tenancy butt patients should understand that there is a chance that the surgery may interfere with the breasts ability to produce milk for lactation. This is especially true if additional techniques need to be performed at the time of the breast augmentation to correct... more

B. Pat Pazmino, MD
Miami Plastic Surgeon

Effects of pregnancy on breast surgery

Based on the information you provided, I would suggest waiting until you are done having children before you consider breast enhancement surgery. Breast surgery will not have any effects on pregnancy, however, pregnancy and breast feeding will effect your the size and shape of your breasts. Breast surgery does not guarantee permanent results. There are many factors that could effect the look of your breasts: pregnancy, aging, weight loss/gain, gravity. I understand you want to improve... more

Tom J. Pousti, MD
San Diego Plastic Surgeon

Plan breast augmentation after pregnancy

If you are planning to get pregnant in 6 months then plan on having your breast augmentation after you finished breast feeding, and the breasts are completely dried. At that time you and your plastic surgeon will assess the breast, size, symmetry, skin elasticity to achieve the results you want.

Samir Shureih, MD
Baltimore Plastic Surgeon

Breast Implants and pregnancy

If you are thinking of having breast implants and you are considering having more children in the next 6 months, I would recommend waiting until you are done with pregnancies.