What can I expect if I become pregnant after I get breast implants? Will the swelling to be abnormally painful?

Your breasts will change with pregnancy, that is a given.  They will enlarge, but the degree of enlargement is going to be different for every woman.  Changes will come with that enlargement. At the very least, the skin will become looser, and frequently the breasts will be smaller after pregnancy. Because the skin will stretch, stretch marks may form, and this is also common.

When breast implants are placed before pregnancy, they do sometimes cause stretch marks, but not that often.  The occurrence of stretch marks after breast augmentation is unpredictable, but much less common than after pregnancy, so one could say that having implants is not going to result in more stretch marks after pregnancy than if the implants had not been present.

What you may note after pregnancy is that the implants do not sit as high and fill out the breast/skin envelope as before. Some women will then choose to have a second augmentation or lift/augmentation combination, because as they say, the breasts are less “perky”.  Using a larger implant will fill up the skin envelope, or if the skin is too loose, a skin-reducing lift can restore the original higher position of the implant. If tightness without change in volume is desire, only a lift can be done.

Thank you for your excellent questions. I always have an open and honest conversation about exactly this topic at the start of our consultation. In an ideal world we delay breast enlargement until after you have had children. Reason being that going through pregnancy and breastfeeding can significantly alter the result of your breast enhancement. It is almost impossible to predict who will get through pregnancy and breastfeeding without any significant changes to the breast. Stretchmarks might appear, they might become saggy, they might change size etc.
In this day and age though women often don’t know when and if they’ll ever have children. So having discussed all of the above at the start of the consultation, many women still make the well-informed decision to have breast enlargement surgery.
All the best!

Hello. That is an interesting question. First of all, it is recommended to postpone breast augmentation if you are planning on having children within a year or so after the procedure. Breasts certainly change during pregnancy. These changes can be unpredictable, but the implants themselves will not affect these changes. Deflated breasts, stretch marks, loose skin and ptosis are not a given but are all common after pregnancy. Having implants does nothing to decrease or increase the likelihood of this happening. These changes are more due the the increase in size and weight of the breasts during pregnancy then anything else.Best of luck,Dr. Miguel Mota