12/30/2025
Does pregnancy impact top surgery results?
As with many things in the world of fertility, the “correct” answer is… it’s complicated.
There are only a couple of studies looking at this topic, and they’re both pretty small! But what we do know is that yes, pregnancy can impact the results of your top surgery.
- Regrowth: pregnancy can trigger existing mammary tissue to swell temporarily, ranging from small growth to pre-surgery sizes. This is usually temporary, but if skin stretches a lot (especially if you choose to lactate and nurse your baby, some changes might be permanent.
- Scar tissue and shape of chest changing: Regardless of the type of surgery you had, your scar tissue might move around a bit and get darker, and the general shape of your chest by change as well. As with growth, this can be temporary but some people report these changes as permanent.
What can you do? Well, some people choose to postpone top surgery until they are done with their fertility journeys, so they don’t have to worry about the way pregnancy might change their surgery results. Other people accept the changes as part of the many ways all bodies change as a result of pregnancy. Finally, many people have top surgery revisions after things have settled down postpartum and they’ve stopped producing milk (if that happened for them).
It’s really up to what’s best for you! But we’d love to hear from our community—did you experience growth or other changes during your pregnancy or pregnancies?
