Breast Enlargement Surgery – Will my Breasts change if I get pregnant after surgery?

Aurora’s Leading Plastic Surgeon, Adrian Richards, explains how your breasts may change after Breast Augmentation surgery when you fall pregnant. For more information on Breast Enlargement please call 01844 214362 and speak to a patient advisor.

Breast Enlargement Surgery – Will my breasts change if I get pregnant after surgery?

Hello. My name is Adrian Richards. I’m a plastic surgeon and I work with Aurora Clinics. I’m just going to answer a quick question I’m often asked by my patients who are considering breast augmentation and this is, “Will my breasts change if I have a breast augmentation and then I subsequently get pregnant?”

So the essential thing to note is that your breasts will change when you get pregnant. The implant is placed behind the breast tissue, so the breast tissue will act normally when you have your baby. So normally, the breast tissue itself will increase in volume as you start to get your milk in after you have your baby. Now, some people’s breasts get very large after having a baby, others, less so, and an important point to what might happen to you if you haven’t had a child is talk to your mother and your aunts and see how their breast tissue reacted because it tends to run in families.

So your breasts are going to get bigger, and if you breast feed for a significant period of time, they will stay larger during that time. If you choose not to breast feed, the breasts will get smaller really quite quickly within a couple of weeks. But the essential thing is the breasts will have got bigger and then shrunk. So the bigger they’d got, the more skin there is to shrink back. So although breast feeding doesn’t disturb the implant, you are slightly more likely, well you are likely to get more droopy after a breast implant. So if you hadn’t had the breast implant, you’d have got bigger and then got smaller, but because you didn’t have the implant they would have been smaller, less gravity, less droop. Because you got the implants, there’s more gravity affecting the implant, and you are likely to droop slightly more if you’ve had a breast implant. But again, it’s very individual.

A lot of my patients have breast implants and then subsequently go on to have children, don’t seem to have problems with that. But it is important to be fully aware that if you’ve got breast implants and you have children, you are likely to get slightly more droop in the long term than if you didn’t have implants.

Thank you for listening to the video. Please, if you’d like any more information about this or any of the other procedures we do at Aurora Clinics, either e-mail us or phone us on 01844 214362. Thank you.