If you are worried about breastfeeding can affect the shape of your breast, you may want to know it is smoking and not nursing a baby that affects women’s breast shape.
In a study, medical researchers interviewed 132 women who went for a breast lift or augmentation between 1998 and 2006 at various clinics blaming breastfeeding for sagging breasts. Of the women surveyed, 93% had at least one pregnancy and 58% of that had breastfed at least one child. To our surprised, the results showed no difference in the degree of breast ptosis (the medical term for sagging of the women’s breast) between women who breastfed and those who did not.
From the study, researchers found that the factors that are actually affecting women's breast sagging are age, the number of pregnancies and whether the patient smoked. During the breastfeeding and breasts sag study, one researcher concluded that smoking will break down a protein in the skin called elastin, which gives our youthful skin its elastic appearance and how it supports the women's breast.
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