http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/aesthetic+surgery+journal/default.aspxTags: aesthetic surgery journalenCommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/10/30/they-say-nursing-doesn-t-make-your-breasts-sag.aspxThu, 30 Oct 2008 18:33:00 GMT42a08a39-daf3-4129-8a63-8a27b879cc03:141221Amy S.F. Lutz4http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=141221http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/10/30/they-say-nursing-doesn-t-make-your-breasts-sag.aspx#comments<p><a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/augmentation-thumb.jpg"><img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/augmentation-thumb.jpg" alt="" align="right" border="0" height="128" hspace="4" width="202" /></a>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 nursing results in sagging breasts - a condition technically known as breast ptosis. </p><p>The real causes of sagging breasts, according to the researchers, are far less noble:&nbsp; increased age, higher BMI, number of pregnancies, bigger pre-pregnancy cup size, and smoking. </p><p>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. <br /></p><img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=141221" width="1" height="1">nursingbreast feedingsagging breastsbreast ptosisaesthetic surgery journal