Doctor Harps On Breast Feeding

A medical practitioner, Dr Bunmi Ogundimu, says breast feeding does not make a woman’s breast  flat.

Ogundimu, who is also the Medical Director, Jon Ken Hospital, Akoka, Lagos, said in an interview that rather, breast feeding makes the breast fuller as a result of the fluid sucked by the baby.

“Again when knowledge comes, ignorant disappears. Breast feeding does not make a woman’s chest flat. If anything the breast becomes fuller when a woman is breastfeeding. “This is because it is going to contain all the fluid that goes into the baby’s mouth so it will expand,’’ she said.

According to her, there are many women who have not breast fed all their lives and yet have flat chest.

The medical director said that breast would go flat with age when the muscles holding it dropped, adding that the medical term for it was ‘entropy‘ which meant shrink.

“I always tell women if you want full breast even long after you stopped breast feeding make sure you breast feed very well. “Each time a woman is breast feeding, the turgidity of the breast remains,’’ she said.

Ogundimu further explained that any part of the body that failed to perform its functions would shrink at the end of the day.

She added that if the breast was not used for its function in the name of fashion, it would also shrink or flat.

The medical director said that any husband interested in the shape of his woman’s breast should encourage her to breast feed adequately.

She said this was because a time would come when the muscles that were lifting the breast up would sag and the breast would fall down naturally.

“So it is a natural process and breast feeding does not in any way cause it. If anything, it encourages it to remain firm,’’ she said.