There are breast prostheses, they are fitted by trained persons, and women
wear them inside their bras after full mastectomies - they serve a cosmetic
function.

 

One of the other Judy's responding to this statement:

 

A weighted breast prosthesis is not deemed cosmetic.  Perhaps your husband
works where they fit breast prostheses also.  The reason health insurance
companies, including Medicare (for seniors) and Medicaid (state funded
medical coupons for low income), must cover these items is for weight and
balance restoration in order to keep the spine and shoulders aligned.  They
are certainly not cosmetic.  When women have bi-lateral mastectomies,
wearing a pair of prostheses is really optional if the surgeries match.  But
they could have had a radical Halstead years ago when slim and a simple or
partial surgery recently while weighing more at an older age and feel out of
balance as their chest wall is thick on one side and shallow on the other.  

 

Granted, women who are an A or B cup will not feel the loss as much, but
some women have said it was not until they got their prosthesis that they
could resume their sports such as golf or tennis and feel balanced.  The
body is very adaptive, but I always wonder how women feel structurally with
unilateral breastfeeding when one side is very much smaller when involuted
than the milk producing side.  It would be a similar phenomenon.  I know
that I had to offer both breasts for drainage each feeding to my daughters
as I hated carrying around the full side waiting until the next feed.  It
just made me feel uncomfortable and unsightly.  It was probably due to my
breastfeeding size of 36DD, as I was less than a 32A- when I got pregnant
the first time.  My mother did not need to wear a bra until getting pregnant
with me, same as my mother-in-law.  

 

Interventional birth practices have just been posted.  Our breasts have been
intervened upon even prior to our pregnancies through use of the birth
control pill and the animal feed antibiotics, bovine growth hormone and
chemicals that bind to estrogen receptors.  We cannot expect them to
function so-called normally/optimally in all women due to these chemicals.
We as yet have no clue how they impact our male children, much less out
daughters.  

 

One friend emailed that some of her friends in France will not send their
children to the US as exchange students.  One daughter was sent here and
came home a few months later with so much breast growth that they were
appalled, as being full breasted is not the norm there.  (Think of our US
bathing beauty photos if you have seen WWII newsreels.  There is a picture
inside this month's AARP magazine on page 2 with Bill Cosby on the cover.)
The French believe we are poisoning ourselves with our processed foods,
chemicals and food additives and that it is affecting our physiology.

Judy Ritchie

www.JudysIntimateApparel.com <http://www.judysintimateapparel.com/> 

 


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