Laurie, no offense taken here, but an observation that perhaps you see
things in your area differently from others. I do not see obese women with large
breasts. I see small women who should have had maybe a B to C cup carrying
around breasts that hurt them. I have women who had reductions at 15 years old
because they had full breasts at 10 years old and are indeed not obese or
even overweight. The majority of women I see with extremely large breasts are
actually rather small women and their breasts are uncomfortable to carry
around. One woman I just worked with is barely a size 6 and has always been
rather thin and small and her breasts embarrassed her. She was teased during her
teen years and she just couldn't take it anymore so at 18 had the reduction
down to just a double DD.
Yes, I have seen women who are large and their breasts match their size, but
they are not getting reductions. They are just large women and
breastfeeding is not that hard for them either. When your belly matches your breasts it
is much easier to place the baby in a comfortable way to feed. But, when
your breasts are out further than your arms and you belly is nowhere near the
nipples and you need to put your baby a foot out on a pillow and hope they are
good at self attaching it does become more difficult. I qualify as obese and
have breasts that match, but never had difficulty positioning a baby or two
to feed them. If I ever do lose the weight though I can see myself wanting
(though not actually doing) to collect my bosom and put it back up on my
chest. Haha.
I have always understood a woman's desire to have smaller breasts because of
the comfort issue. My mother in law has two inch ridges in her shoulders
and a back that aches daily from carrying breasts that are so dense and heavy
that even at age 69 they have not lost enough density for a good mammogram
reading. I wish the cosmetic industry would figure out a way to protect a
woman's lactation capabilities when they are trying to give her the comfort she
wants. It would be even nicer if we are a culture would leave our women's
breasts the heck alone and accept them for what they are. But, I say this
because the breasts I have match the body I have and I have never wanted them
bigger or smaller so I try not to judge, just feel sorry that women have these
feelings of inadequacy based on body parts that are capable of functioning as
life giving glands that make what they look like in a sweater irrelevant.
Along the theme of reduction, and Donna Ramsay's research that shows less
ductal system than we assumed, why is she the first to notice this? We have
been cutting up women's breasts for a very long time and I just do not
understand why just now we are hearing "oops, we have less ducts than the text books
say". Honestly. We cut bodies open all the time and I am not reading how we
just found out we have less new arteries never heard of or maybe an artery
or two less. Why after all these years of mammograms, ultrasounds, breast
implants, breast reductions, breast cancer surgeries, breast cancer studies,
etc. are we all of a sudden finding out that breasts have less ducts? I am not
questioning the truth of this observation...which is much like the
observation that no, there are not sinuses. I am saying where the heck has the entire
medical community of researchers and women's health been for 30 years? You
would think as often as they have been inside a breast they would have noticed
how it was made.
Take care,
Pam MazzellaDiBosco, IBCLC, RLC
Florida
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