Hypoplastic breasts, also called underdeveloped
breasts,
tubular breasts, or
breasts with insufficient glandular tissue, may contain very little
breast tissue that can produce
breast milk.
In the mother, they might check the shape of her
breasts, to see if they were
hypoplastic — a
tubular shape that can indicate underdevelopment of the glandular tissue needed to make
breast milk — or evaluate her hormone levels, ask if her
breast size had increased during pregnancy.