Breastfeeding is one of the important aspects of a woman’s life. Asymmetry and/or small size of the breast(s) have important psychological consequences for the mother about her capacity for milk production and ability to breastfeed her baby. Adequate counseling in these cases helps allay anxiety of mothers regarding adequate milk production. Most authors have studied breast size for aesthetic purposes and most studies are on small number of subjects including few adolescents to 125 women and age ranging from 16 to 83 years. ‘Aesthetically pleasing breast’ have been studied by many authors and defined as size and fullness proportional to the body, have minimal ptosis and no axillary tail, be conical to teardrop in shape, and have the nipple at the anterior most position [12]. Results from aesthetically perfect breasts as well as breast size of the adolescent nulliparous women cannot be extrapolated to the lactating women, hence the requirement of developing nomograms for use during lactation councelling. Breast measurements can be used for counseling mothers for successful breastfeeding and for aesthetic and plastic surgery for re-shaping of the breast. Lactation promotion clinics require such data for adequate counseling of breastfeeding mothers and this decreases the likelihood of discontinuation of lactation. Breast measurements can be used for counseling and aesthetic and plastic surgery for shaping of the breast. Developing nomograms of breast measurements & breast mass/volume estimations can help to counsel lactating mothers regarding adequacy of breast volume.

Keywords: Breast size; Lactation; Lactation counseling