Is breastfeeding impossible after breast augmentation surgery?

Most women who have breast augmentation surgery are able to breast feed. Learn more from Michael Howard, MD, about breast feeding after a breast augmentation surgery.

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[MUSIC PLAYING] Most women who have breast augmentation are able to breastfeed after surgery.

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Women who undergo breast augmentation have a small incision placed on the breast. And in general, this incision is away

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from the nipple and associated ducts, which are required for breast feeding.

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Most women who have breast augmentation are able to breastfeed after surgery.

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This does, also, assume that the woman before she was going to have breast augmentation would be able to breastfeed anyway, which may or may not

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be the case for that woman.

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As most physicians, surgeons perform breast augmentation surgery today, there, theoretically, should

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be no effect on breastfeeding.