The act of observing an event has often been shown to change the event,
which leaves me wondering how a breast's experience of ultrasound changes
what the breast does during breastfeeding. Ultrasound is used
therapeutically for many reasons--because it causes some kind of desirable
change. The images we see via ultrasound may, therefore, not entirely
represent what happens in the breast in the absence of ultrasound. Just as
the images of ducts and sinuses derived from autopsy and injected wax may
not entirely represent the structure of the living breast. What types of
changes do cells, tissues, and organs experience, in general, when they are
exposed to ultrasound? The answers to such questions must be taken into
account when the results of research using ultrasound to image the breast
in its so-called "natural" lactating and breastfeeding state are
interpreted. The experience of ultrasound by breasts is not a natural part
of lactation or breastfeeding.

Cynthia

Cynthia Good Mojab, MS clinical psychology, IBCLC, RLC
Ammawell
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