What to do if you have accessory breasts after childbirth?

Postpartum accessory breasts refer to the condition where women have accessory breasts after giving birth. Accessory breasts appear under the armpits of women and are prone to appear as lumps. They can also easily cause pain or breast tenderness, which not only affects the body curves but also affects personal health. Postpartum accessory breasts can be corrected with underwear bras or massage techniques.

What to do with accessory breast after childbirth?

If you have accessory breasts after childbirth, you can eliminate them by doing more exercise or by using a bra to correct them.

Postpartum accessory breasts are harmful

1. Affect the appearance

After giving birth, mothers’ figures will become more or less bloated and out of shape, and with a pair of ugly side breasts, they dare not wear evening gowns and suspender dresses anymore. As for the bikinis they once wore, they can only be hidden in the bottom of the closet, and they dare not even go to public places such as swimming pools.

2. Impact on mental health

It is very hard to take care of a child. My figure is no longer what it used to be. Not only are my breasts sagging, but I also have these two little lumps of fat. I really cannot feel good. Anxiety and worry are the biggest taboos for mothers after childbirth. Mothers are prone to irritability, depression, etc. due to various reasons after childbirth, and the uninvited guest of accessory breasts adds to the troubles.

3. Affecting the relationship between husband and wife

Derived from the above point, a wife's anxiety and bad mood will inevitably affect her husband's mood in their married life. The harmony of postpartum sex life may be broken. If mothers have a hot temper, it may affect the relationship between husband and wife.

4. Suffering from pain in accessory breast

Don’t think that accessory breasts only affect appearance. They can also cause periodic pain. In severe cases, there will be continuous pain before and after menstruation. Some accessory breasts even have nipples and can secrete milk during breastfeeding! It’s incredible. It’s the rhythm of growing “multiple breasts”. The pain caused by accessory breast can also radiate to the armpits, shoulders, back, upper limbs, etc., often affecting sleep, work and study, making mothers anxious and emotional.

5. Leading to breast diseases

The incidence of accessory breast is 5/1000 higher than that of normal breast. Diseases that normal breasts may face, such as mastitis, lobular hyperplasia, breast fibroids, breast cancer, etc., can also befall accessory breasts, and the probability is higher than that of normal breasts. If it is an accessory breast with glandular tissue, it will change with the changes in sex hormones and cause diseases such as accessory breast cysts, accessory breast hyperplasia, and even cancer.

Where does “accessory breast” come from?

What is the cause of postpartum accessory breast

Many new mothers will find lumps and pain in their armpits after giving birth. The lumps are usually the size of an egg and do not appear before giving birth. They appear after giving birth at the same time as the breasts swell. They are not normal breast tissue, but congenitally underdeveloped breast tissue, the so-called "accessory breast".

Accessory breasts are divided into congenital accessory breasts and acquired accessory breasts. If there are no accessory breasts before delivery and only appear after delivery, they are acquired accessory breasts. It is mainly caused by breastfeeding habits, improper underwear wearing or weight gain.