Hello, I'm going to bore you with my background first My husband and I started trying to have children a few years ago with no luck. The longer it takes, the more I think about my breasts getting even larger while pregnant, so I've decided to go ahead with the surgery.

Is there an appropriate 'heal' time post surgery?

Hi! Welcome to the board.

I don't know what the appropriate heal time would be, but I am sure your plastic surgeon would know. Then again, your breasts don't grow right away after you get pregnant, they just get a bit tender, which post-surgery you may or may not feel.

Just for the record, I thought I would tell you that even with all the issues BFAR has presented me, I am still very grateful I had my reduction. I wouldn't change a thing.

Good luck on your TTC journey! And know you have LOTS of support waiting here, whether it's BFAR related or not.

A different angle... I wouldn't even consider having BR if having kids was right on the horizon. BFAR is so difficult and complicated. I would wait and enjoy the reduction when I was done having kids (no crazy growth to put everything off scale again) and on the flip side, enjoy your breast feeding relationship "normally". I can say being in the thick of it right now, I wish I had never heard of a reduction. I wish I could just breastfeed without the stress of weight gains and gadgets. I had my surgery when I was 18, so certainly don't regret it for a moment though. Just some stuff to think about. It is tangly for sure.
Heather

My surgeon said I had to wait 6 months after my surgery to get pregnant again.

thank you everyone...that was extremely helpful! Those are the exact reasons that I am torn...I cannot stand these large breasts anymore versus I've waited this long, so what's another 2-3 years with them. I'm going to talk to my surgeon and go from there, but I'm still leaning toward getting the surgery because my back is in very bad shape, and I know that it will only get worse when I'm pregnant.

If I ever do get pg, I want to be a healthy mommy and not bedridden with a bad back. I'm 5'2" 140lbs with G cups, and I'm very uncomfortable

Honestly...DO NOT DO IT!
I am in the thick of it right now (baby will be 4 months old next week) and I would give ANYTHING to be a "normal" breastfeeding mother. I just don't think I can explain to your how horrible it is EVERYDAY to not be enough for my child. I have to use supplementers and bottles and pump disgusting formula into my baby...it SUCKS!
I wish someone would have told me how I would feel. But I was 20 years old and I thought I knew it all.
Obviously you have to make your own decision. But for me a BIG breast full of milk would be so much better than a surgically altered slightly smaller breast that can't produce.
Good luck with your decision and with TTC!

My surgeon wanted me to do pre- and post-surgery mammograms to map out the scar tissue. I had to wait, I think, 8 months for enough healing to take place for the mammogram, and then I was cleared to TTC.

I was 5 foot 2 and 110 pounds with size G cups when I got married. My first pregnancy brought me to a K cup. It was only then that I knew surgery was necessary. I wouldn't have done it at a G because BF was so important to me, but had to at a K. I definitely wish surgery hadn't been necessary, because BFAR is HARD, but in my case it really was necessary.

I just want to add that I do not regret my surgery even with all the work of BFAR. I had 8 pounds removed from my breasts and no longer have back pain. I even fractured a rib by wearing an underwire bra and spent time in the hospital. With all that, I had to get it done.

I cant imagine how lage they will get if I DONT have the surgery before pregnancy, I dont think the cups go up that high in the alphabet - N cup? does that exist? I am a 34J/JJ now, I havent had children yet, goodness gracious.