Sentences with phrase «breast ptosis»

Breastfeeding is often blamed for drooping breasts, but it's not breastfeeding itself that causes breast ptosis: sagging is actually the result of pregnancy and other influences.During pregnancy, your breasts undergo changes and grow larger to prepare for breastfeeding your baby.

Many women think that choosing to pump will cause breast ptosis (aka saggy boobs) and that direct latch breastfeeding prevents this (or vise versa!)

In fact, a 2008 study concluded that the risk of breast ptosis increases with each pregnancy, but has no correlation to breastfeeding.

On the other hand, factors that do NOT contribute to breast ptosis include: breastfeeding and lack of participation in regular upper body exercise.

This old wives» tale has now been negated by research [v], which has shown that the main factors that contribute to breast ptosis are: age, history of significant (> 50 lb) weight loss, higher body mass index, larger bra cup size, number of pregnancies and smoking history.

Pregnancy was seen to be a risk factor for the development of breast ptosis, and the degree of ptosis was seen to worsen with the number of pregnancies.

Not exact matches

However, a history of breast - feeding was not associated with a higher degree of ptosis.