Tired of folks telling you that if you nurse your kids your nipples will eventually lie below your navel?  Here’s a new study to set their minds at ease that, strangely, comes from an organization that hardly known to promote breastfeeding -  The American Society of Plastic Surgeons.  A 2007 study found that breastfeeding does not create saggy breasts.  But pregnancies do.  So does age (duh!) a history of smoking, large breasts prior to pregnancy and body mass index. 

This is a great study to cite when talking to women reluctant to breastfeed for fear of the affect it may have on their breasts.  But it will do little to reverse the burgeoning  number of women who alter their breast every year to make them larger, perkier, or more youthful. 

Source:  "The Effect of Breastfeeding Upon Breast Aesthetics"Presented in electronic format, Sunday, Oct. 28 - Tuesday, Oct. 30, at the Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore.  Brian Rinker, MD, ASPS surgeon and author.

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