Another procedure necessary with pregnancy after breast augmentation?

I'm 24 and stopped breastfeeding about 6 months ago. I'm thinking about getting a breast augmentation. Since I am definitely going to have more children, will I need to get another procedure if I have it now, and get pregnant and breastfeed afterwards? If so, what can I do now with everything hanging?

4 answers to “Another procedure necessary with...”

A: Plastic surgery after pregnancy

Jeffrey E. Schreiber, MD

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... more

A: Breast and Pregnancy

Farbod Esmailian, MD

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... more

A: Pregnancy after Breast Augmentation will have Variable Effects

Armando Soto, MD

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... more

A: Every woman's breast react differently to pregnancy

Carl W. "Rick" Lentz III, MD

 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... more

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