Is Face/Neck Lipo Safe While Breastfeeding?

Others have said it quite well, and I will add my recommendation to theirs--do not expose your baby to any kind of medications or anesthetic drugs that might become part of your breast milk. Sure, you can pump and store, but you can also wait, make sure you are at your ideal post-baby weight, and proceed when you are finished breast feeding.

The fact that you are asking means you are a mom who understands there may well be some concern here. Follow that awareness, and those who recommend you hold off for now--these are the physicians who care about you as a patient rather than as a potential case and income. I know you too may be anxious to proceed, but if you are a good candidate for this surgery now, you will be even more so when you know you are absolutely avoiding any breast milk medication influence on your new baby!

While in all likelihood everything would be fine if you had surgery while breastfeeding, why take any chances?  Is it really that important that you have liposuction at this time?  Please be safe and please consult with a board certified plastic surgeon and please wait until you are done breast feeding.

 

Good luck.

Dear Tinablck in Mississauga: 

Liposuction is an elective procedure, and it needs to be safe and predictable. Elective surgery, unlike emergency surgery, means you can choose when to have it done. With choice comes responsibility. One of the reasons elective surgery is safer than emergency surgery is because we can choose to do it when it is safer. By carefully planning your liposuction, you can eliminate and reduce other hazards and maximize your chances of having no complications. 

The absolute risks of having elective surgery while breast feeding are not know, because no one is going to knowingly take the risk with a large number of women and their breast feeding children. We do, however, know that pregnancy and lactation increase the risks of emergency surgery.

You are going to better served by waiting until you have stopped breast feeding for a few months before having elective surgery. You body will have a chance to get back to a more normal physiology. Your surgery will be safer and more predictable, and that is really what good plastic surgery is all about. No reason to take unnecessary risks, and you'll have fewer unknowns to worry about.