When is It Safe to Sleep on Your Stomach After Breast Lift & Reduction?

         The ability to sleep
on the abdomen following breast lift or reduction depends on several factors
and varies from patient to patient. Before sleeping in this position, adequate
wound healing must take place. We generally recommend six weeks to be safe.

 

Even at six weeks, sleeping
in this position may be uncomfortable for some patients. Under these
circumstances patients may need to sleep on their backs for longer periods of
time.

Assuming you have had no complications and no healing problems, at this point you should be fine to sleep on your tummy.  Most of us say that somewhere between 2-6 weeks after surgery is fine, and it sounds like you have passed that mark.
 

I let all my patients sleep on their stomach at 2 - 3 weeks after reduction or lift surgery. As long as the wounds are healing well there should be no problems.

Every surgeon has specific limitation and restrictions that may be unique to their surgical technique and given the lack of specific information about your procedure, it is difficult to give any activity guidelines.
When it comes to this proceudure, most surgeons would advise remaining off your stomach for a minimum of 3 weeks while others recommend 3 months. There is great variability when it comes to the postoperative guidelines.

 

After a breast lift surgery, we typically recommend that patients avoid sleeping on their stomach and placing too much pressure onto the breast. We ask that patients remain in this position while sleeping for 3 to 4 weeks. This will allow the tissue to heal and will minimize pain.