> Implants no bar to breastfeeding: study
>
> Pamela Fayerman
> Vancouver Sun
>
> Wednesday, February 19, 2003
>
> Women who enlarge their breasts with implants do not have less success
> breastfeeding their babies than women without implants, the preliminary
> findings of a University of B.C. study suggest.

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>
> So far, Oxley said, the data on 60 women with implants show that 72 per cent
> were able to breastfeed their babies, without supplemental formula, for at
> least two months.
>
> While there wasn't a case control comparison group of women without implants,
> Oxley said previous studies in the medical literature of women who have not
> had their breasts enlarged show a similar percentage breastfeeds successfully
> and exclusively for the first few months.
>
> Only six per cent of the women in the current study who tried to breastfeed
> could not. ''We assume that they wouldn't have been able to breastfeed anyway,
> regardless of the implants,'' Oxley said. Women in the study were 18 to 32
> years of age when they got their implants and within the same age range when
> they had children.

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