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Silicone implants and breastfeeding
If you are planning to breast feed your baby, and yet insist on having a plastic surgery procedure, you may want to take a look at these facts. Breastfeeding after a cosmetic surgery is not impossible, but is some cases the woman looses this ability.
It is very important what kind of incision and of plastic surgery procedure the patient has had. If the cut is under the breasts, scar having the shape of a big smile, breastfeeding chances are greater than if the implants have been placed through a periareolar cut -around the nipple. In this case, the nerves and the milk ducts can be severely damaged, making it impossible to breastfeed. Also, the lack of nerves has a direct influence on the hormonal circuit responsible to trigger the milk production. Since the nerves are damaged, the reflex that has to get to the brain to release prolactin and oxytocin fails to act. These two hormones generate the milk production.
Also, implants placed under the muscle can impair milk production.
If you insist on having a plastic surgery procedure, you need to talk with your doctor the best practice to leave the mammary gland as intact as possible.
As for the quality of the milk, when the patient has breast implants, there is always the fear that silicone may pass to the milk. This situation is highly improbable, but there are two documented cases of silicone in the milk and suspected autoimmune diseases in the infants.