Mommy Makeover Series: Breast Augmentation/Breast Lift
It’s hard to feel sexy after baby when your breasts scream motherhood. After pregnancy and breastfeeding, the breasts often change in appearance, becoming deflated, stretched out, and saggy. During your mommy makeover, we’ll restore your breasts. Moms deserve to feel sexy too. Let’s learn about your mommy makeover breast surgery options.
How Does Pregnancy Change the Breasts?
Breast changes during pregnancy start at about eight weeks. During this time, the breasts begin to grow rapidly, often increasing by about two cup sizes. As the pregnancy progresses, so do the breasts. Milk production causes the breasts to further swell. Combine the weight gain of pregnancy with hormonal changes and swelling and you can experience permanent changes to your breast size, shape, and skin quality. Many women notice the most dramatic changes after they’ve finished breastfeeding, particularly with regard to position on the chest wall and the skin quality. Although the breasts typically get smaller, some women, especially those with large breasts, may still feel too big after pregnancy.
Sagging isn’t exclusive to large breasted women. Even women with small breasts can experience sagging. Often the breast volume shifts into the lower part, or pole, of the breast. Since all of the tissue is located in the lower portion of the breast, sagging occurs. Sagging isn’t about size, but tissue position.
What Procedures Do I Need to Restore My Breasts After Pregnancy?
During your mommy makeover consultation, we’ll carefully examine your breasts and make treatment recommendations specific to your situation. Most women opt for some combination of breast lift surgery and/or breast augmentation.
- Breast Lift- If you have post-pregnancy breast sagging, a breast lift is one of the best ways to restore a more youthful breast appearance. During the surgery we’ll remove excess skin, reposition breast tissues, and adjust nipple/areola size and position. A breast lift is customized to the amount of sagging you’ve experienced. We can perform a smaller lift on women with mild sagging and a more advanced lift on those with moderate or severe sagging. Incision locations will vary depending on the amount of lift needed.
- Breast Augmentation- Some women experience a decrease in breast size after pregnancy. We can restore lost breast volume by placing an implant behind the chest muscle or we can perform breast augmentation to increase your natural breast size. An augmentation alone will work if you have minimal sagging and minimal excess skin.
- Combination Breast Augmentation/Lift- This is probably the most common breast enhancement procedure after multiple pregnancies. The lift will restore the position but the implant will help develop a great shape and restore volume.
For bigger breasts alone, choose breast augmentation. To lift and rejuvenate, without changing breast size, opt for a lift. To increase size and rejuvenate breast positioning, get both breast augmentation and a breast lift.
If pregnancy has changed your breasts, come see us. As top breast surgeons in Austin, we can help you to rediscover youthful, perky, and rejuvenated breasts. Sexy is still possible after pregnancy, we promise.
