Another Procedure Necessary with Pregnancy After Breast Augmentation?

Hi there- As you know already, pregnancy produces visible changes in a woman's body, and with delivery and cessation of lactation, breast involution (shrinkage of the breast tissue) will often occur as well. The net effect of the skin stretching during the pregnancy and the loss of breast tissue afterwards, is that the breast looks a bit deflated and droopy. This same process can occur when a woman experiences pregnancy after breast augmentation, with the firm and full appearance giving way... more

IT is very likely that you will require another procedure and so I would defer the breast augmentation and lift until completion of childbearing.

If you get a breast augmentation and you plan on breastfeeding in the future, you may need to supplement with formula. Also, if you get a tummy tuck and then get pregnant the abdominal wall may stretch out again requiring another tightening. Be sure you tell your plastic surgeon about your future childbearing plans. Good luck!

Every woman has different affect from pregnancy and it is hard for a plastic surgeon to predict. The best way to predict is to ask what happened to my breasts after my pregnancy and breast feeding. If you tell me that your breasts were up high and drooped quite a bit after pregnancy and breast feeding then I will say that after having breast augmentation there is a high likelihood that you will need additional surgery later. It may just be a lift at that point. Good luck. more

If your breast have lost volume and or drooped with your first pregnancy then the same thing will probably happen again with additional pregnancies. If not much happened to your breast with your first pregnancy then you probably will not have much of a change with additional pregnancies. Regardless, I see no reason for you to delay until after your subsequent pregnancies. What will be will be. The worst thing that could happen is that you may need a breast lift sometime later but that... more