They Say: Breastfeeding DOESN’T Make Your Breasts Sag

You could have knocked me over with a feather when I read about a new study, published in Aesthetic Surgery Journal, that disproves the popular conception that breastfeeding results in sagging breasts – a condition technically known as breast ptosis.

The real causes of sagging breasts, according to the researchers, are far less noble:  increased age, higher BMI, number of pregnancies, bigger pre-pregnancy cup size, and smoking.

Lead author Dr. Brian Rinker expressed his hope that the study would persuade women who were thinking about not breastfeeding their babies because of concerns about sagging to re-think their decisions.