What Happens If You Get Pregnant After Breast Augmentation?
If you’ve been considering a breast augmentation, one big question you may have is: how can pregnancy affect your implants? Should you have a breast augmentation before pregnancy or wait until you’re done having children? Some women decide to have their breast augmentation before their pregnancy, especially if they were born with an extremely small chest, then they go on to have healthy pregnancies with their augmentation. Others decide that it’s better to wait.
Whether you’ve already had a breast augmentation and are curious about how pregnancy might affect your results, or if you’re in the middle of a pregnancy, breastfeeding, or considering getting pregnant and would like more information on implants later, here’s everything you’ll want to consider before your breast augmentation.
How Pregnancy Affects the Breasts
To understand how pregnancy can affect your breast augmentation results, it’s important to first understand how pregnancy impacts the body and breasts in general. After a woman gives birth and her body begins to produce milk, her breasts will swell and increase in size. Once she has finished breastfeeding, the skin often remains stretched out, resulting in deflated, sagging breasts. If these physical changes occur when a woman already has breast implants, the added weight of the implants may contribute to more pronounced sagging. For these cases, breast lift surgery or breast implant revision will be necessary to restore more youthful breasts.
However, for some women—especially those with smaller implants—pregnancy doesn’t change their breast augmentation results at all.
Is Getting Pregnant after Breast Augmentation Safe?
While achieving ideal aesthetic results is important, patient health and safety is the top priority of the amazing team at Restora Austin. Fortunately, there is no danger to either the mother or baby during pregnancy after a breast augmentation, nor will a breast augmentation make it more difficult to become pregnant. However, patients who become pregnant or who are considering having children after breast augmentation should understand that pregnancy may significantly impact their results and lead to a secondary surgery for revisions.
Is Breastfeeding Safe with Breast Implants?
For women who are interested in having a breast augmentation but aren’t sure they’re done having children, another important aspect to consider is how breast implants might affect their ability to breastfeed. First and foremost, it is important to understand that there is never a guarantee that breastfeeding will be successful after an augmentation. However, many women do successfully go on to breastfeed with breast implants, and it is perfectly safe for mother and baby.
Schedule Your Breast Augmentation Consultation at Restora Austin Today!
Although waiting until you’re done having children guarantees that your results will last longer, Dr. Gordon and Dr. Reid understand that life happens, and enjoying the benefits of a more feminine figure and feeling more confident often outweighs the possibility of needing a revision in the future. If you would like to learn more about breast augmentations in Austin, TX, reach out to Restora Austin by calling (512) 371-8817 or contacting us online.
