What Effects Do Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Have on Breast Sagginess?
There are different speculations as to what causes the sagging of breasts of women.
This concern has come up primarily because in today's world of glitz and glamour, the breasts are one physical feature in a woman that gets the attention.
Even the world of beauty and fitness, a big portion of the market has come up with procedures and products addressing issues concerning the breasts.
Women go through two important activities in life.
These are childbirth and breastfeeding.
These two create a point of argument as to whether they cause breast sagging of women.
It is an accepted fact though that both childbirth as brought about by pregnancy and breastfeeding have a great impact on the activities of hormones causing physical changes in the woman's body.
Studies on the hormonal changes and woman's activities have revealed that breastfeeding or nursing of a baby by the mother does not create sagging of woman's breasts.
What cause the breast of woman to droop at this stage is pregnancy and the frequency of childbirth by the mother.
A study done by a plastic surgeon named Brian Rinker from the University of Kentucky revealed such.
He was able to make 132 interviews with women with ages of about 39 years who went through the process of breast lifts or breast augmentation and showed that 93% experienced a single childbirth of which 58% breastfed their children.
This research done by Rinker and company included analysis on the medical history of women, their body structure, the cup and size of brassieres worn prior to pregnancy and whether the women were smokers or not.
The study showed that there is no connection with breast sagging and breastfeeding.
The revelation by the study done is that the causes of breast sagging on these types of women are the frequency of pregnancies, age of the woman and smoking.
In pregnancy, the hormonal changes in the body have effects on the mammary glands causing the breast to grow and along the process will cause breast sagging because of the skin around the breast area is stretched.
Smoking causes the breast to sag because the protein content called elastin that gives the youthful elastic appearance on the skin is broken down.
It also gives support for the breast.
Frequent pregnancies cause the breast to sag.
At the same time, more negative effects are seen with each increase in pregnancy and childbirth.
With the study and the evaluations reached, it should give nursing or breastfeeding mothers the confidence to continue with breastfeeding their babies and that this activity does not have effects to sagging breasts.
What is important for nursing women to consider is the health benefits that breastfeeding could render their babies and how beneficial this is for the child in the future.
This researched study should put now a stop to reluctance of some women to continue breastfeeding of their babies because this has no effect to how the breasts will appear.
How the physical appearance of a woman is dependent on how she takes care of herself and how her outlook is.
The inner beauty will be exuded that will come out in the physical aspect of the woman because of her confidence.
This concern has come up primarily because in today's world of glitz and glamour, the breasts are one physical feature in a woman that gets the attention.
Even the world of beauty and fitness, a big portion of the market has come up with procedures and products addressing issues concerning the breasts.
Women go through two important activities in life.
These are childbirth and breastfeeding.
These two create a point of argument as to whether they cause breast sagging of women.
It is an accepted fact though that both childbirth as brought about by pregnancy and breastfeeding have a great impact on the activities of hormones causing physical changes in the woman's body.
Studies on the hormonal changes and woman's activities have revealed that breastfeeding or nursing of a baby by the mother does not create sagging of woman's breasts.
What cause the breast of woman to droop at this stage is pregnancy and the frequency of childbirth by the mother.
A study done by a plastic surgeon named Brian Rinker from the University of Kentucky revealed such.
He was able to make 132 interviews with women with ages of about 39 years who went through the process of breast lifts or breast augmentation and showed that 93% experienced a single childbirth of which 58% breastfed their children.
This research done by Rinker and company included analysis on the medical history of women, their body structure, the cup and size of brassieres worn prior to pregnancy and whether the women were smokers or not.
The study showed that there is no connection with breast sagging and breastfeeding.
The revelation by the study done is that the causes of breast sagging on these types of women are the frequency of pregnancies, age of the woman and smoking.
In pregnancy, the hormonal changes in the body have effects on the mammary glands causing the breast to grow and along the process will cause breast sagging because of the skin around the breast area is stretched.
Smoking causes the breast to sag because the protein content called elastin that gives the youthful elastic appearance on the skin is broken down.
It also gives support for the breast.
Frequent pregnancies cause the breast to sag.
At the same time, more negative effects are seen with each increase in pregnancy and childbirth.
With the study and the evaluations reached, it should give nursing or breastfeeding mothers the confidence to continue with breastfeeding their babies and that this activity does not have effects to sagging breasts.
What is important for nursing women to consider is the health benefits that breastfeeding could render their babies and how beneficial this is for the child in the future.
This researched study should put now a stop to reluctance of some women to continue breastfeeding of their babies because this has no effect to how the breasts will appear.
How the physical appearance of a woman is dependent on how she takes care of herself and how her outlook is.
The inner beauty will be exuded that will come out in the physical aspect of the woman because of her confidence.
