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> The article states," In a study of 84 new mothers at a Texas
>hospital, 64 percent of those with breast implants had problems producing
>enough milk to feed their infants, while only 7 percent of women without
>implants had such problems."
How many of the total sample size of 84 had implants and how many did not?
I don't believe the 7% of women without had trouble, unless there were only
a few women in this sub-sample, in which case 1 or 2 women would constitute 7%.
urgery could affect a woman's ability to breast-feed."
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> Dr. John William Little, president of the Plastic Surgery Education
>Foundation at the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
>AND Clinical professor of surgery at Georgetown University Medical Center in
>Washington, D.C. states the following: " the new study does not prove that
>implant surgery interferes with breastfeeding...the report did not take into
>account women's breast size before surgery, and BREAST SIZE CAN AFFECT A
>WOMAN'S ABILITY TO LACTATE
Time to dust off our typewriters, folks. I'm going to send him a copy of
"Beauty and the Breast" this afternoon. At the very least, he needs to stop
spreading the misinformation that breast size has any bearing on lactational
capacity.
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Anthropology Department phone: (409) 845-5256
Texas A&M University fax: (409) 845-4070
College Station, TX 77843-4352
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