Jan Aken RN IBCLC CLNC Dear Friends, I recently retired from the day job as hospital lactation consultant but I still do consulting from home. I have a client who emailed me with her problem. I know there can be trauma to the breast if the pumping is vigourous as I have actually seen buising on the breast after pumping. But my question to this group is have you heard of changes on the "mammo" because of this kind of trauma? The client wrote: "I had a mammogram on Friday and they found a new cluster of Calcifications in the middle of the right breast, which they want to biopsy.... most of the calcs look like calcifications from fat necrosis, which is "fat trauma". This can happen in areas of previous biopsy or areas of trauma like years after a car accident or having been bitten by a horse, etc.... It wasn't until later that I realized I had had some potential trauma to that poor little breast from all the pumping (sometimes manually) I have done, usually on maximum speed." So what do you think? Jan Aken OB Nurse/Board Certified Lactation Consultant *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html