> One of my co-leaders has a question about her nursing 2 year old.  Her
> daughter, who is somewhat pudgy, has breasts.  She is worried that it is 1)
> from hormones in her milk causing her daughter to have breasts.  Is this
> possible?  Or 2) because her daughter nurses at night that the extra
> calories are causing her to have more weight and causing her to have
> breasts.  Basically she is worried that it is something that she is doing
> that is causing this in her daughter.  She states that her breasts have
> always seemed big - the swelling really didn't go down after birth - and
> she is hoping that some of the great minds here on Lactnet can give her
> some answers.

Although the Dr. may not have actually called it a birth defect it is
possible that the sternum on this child goes in slightly.  My daughter
has this condition.  It may be symetrical or asymetrical, depending on
the severity sometimes surgery is an option.  For my daughter it is
symetrical and it just made her breasts pronounced as a small child and
now as a preteen it she REALLY looks well developed.  Oh well, some
women wish for this problem :)
Maybe this is all it is?!
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