Having children after op?!

Hi Girlies,

I don’t know if it is because my op is getting really close now or what, but I’m beginning to worry about all sorts of stuff! Has anyone had kids, or know anyone who has, after a boob job? I’m just thinking right now, the boobs might look great. But after a baby or 2, how bad are my boobs going to look with the implants? Am I going to need to have another op? I know you can’t base decisions in life on ifs or buts but I’m so nervous as it is, I would be devastated if in a few years I have a baby and my boobs look awful with implants sloshing around in there! xxx

I have exactly the same fears! I am havin an uplift too so already scared of droopy boobs x

I’m terrified of this too x

le89 – there is no way of telling hun, it all depends on your body. I have 3 friends who have all had babies after BA’s and all 3 want to know replace their implants. One says hers move around all over the place now, one had anatomicals and one of her implants has turned around and the other has very visible rippling now due to her milk coming in an bf’ing for a few days. I would personally say it’s highly likely you will want them re-done however there have been success stories!

I’ve been advised by all my friends to wait as I would like another baby and planning to start trying to conceive again at the end of 2013. but the way I see it is I get 2 years of making the most of my boobs before baby and if they do need doing again after they probably won’t look as bad as they do right now anyway!?!? hope I don’t live to regret those words lol xx

Effect pregnancy has on implants varies from woman to woman

When you become pregnant, your breasts go through changes due to the hormonal fluxes in your body—they enlarge, and sometimes change shape. In some rare cases, these changes are permanent, and pregnancy can actually leave you with fuller breasts. Generally, however, these changes are temporary, and last only until you have stopped breast-feeding your baby, after which point your breasts will go back to a smaller size. When this occurs—especially if your breasts changed size significantly during your pregnancy—you may develop stretch marks or lose breast tissue and experience sagging when your breasts return to their former size.But this is not always the case.

While such changes are obviously not very appealing, breast implants do not really have any bearing on the extent to which sagging or stretch marks will occur. Such side effects can manifest whether or not you have had breast surgery—across the board, plastic surgeons agree that implants do not tend to cause complications or exacerbate the aftereffects of pregnancy upon your breasts. Stretchmarks, for instance, are genetically linked, so implants will not increase your chances of getting them unless you are already prone to developing them. Furthermore, breast implants should not impair your ability to breast-feed: augmentation surgery can be done without affecting how your milk ducts or nipples function.

The effect that pregnancy has upon the breasts varies from woman to woman, making it difficult to predict exactly how your breasts will look afterward. A number of factors—including your age, your inherent skin quality, whether or not you’re a smoker, and the extent of your breast tissue enlargement—play a part in determining the end results of pregnancy in an individual; you won’t really know what’s going to happen until you are no longer lactating. Keep in mind, however, that what kind of implants you have makes a difference. Subpectoral implants—implants that are underneath the muscle in your chest—are supported and buffered by the muscles surrounding them, so the changes to your breast tissue do not affect them. Subglandular implants, however—implants placed above the muscle in the breasts—rely on the breast tissue itself for support, and so are more likely to fall after pregnancy. On a more positive note, if you are someone who has a particularly tight skin envelope before your pregnancy, the stretching that you’ll experience when your breast size increases may actually be beneficial—it can actually make your breasts look more natural afterwards.

Thank you tina2011 for the info missym83, sophie10 that is what I am worried about, I’m a 32AAA now (TINY) and I am meant to be having anatomicals, its not so much that I think implants will make my boobs worse during pregnancy, more that pregnancy will ruin my new boobs! Now I am thinking maybe its best to wait until after babies for the boob job, at the age of 22 my boobs have a lot of natural change to go through especially if I want to have children! I didn’t really think about it until recently as stupid as that sounds, I was so obsessed with what the results would look like, failed to realize that actually my body might change a lot in the next 10 years! xx

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