Breast Diagram For Breastfeeding

The medical name for breast is mammary gland.

Breast diagram for breastfeeding. A little something i put together with wisdom from dr sears. Each breast consists of tissue overlying the chest wall muscles the pectoral muscles. Figure 1 1 shows the different parts of the breast.

Women are more prone to benign noncancerous breast disease. All genders can get breast cancer. Breasts are made up of fat and breast tissue along with nerves veins arteries and connective tissue that helps hold everything in place.

It is therefore important to ensure a good latch to help initiate milk ejection during breastfeeding as well as using a breast pump that can stimulate the milk ejection efficiently. Should i buy a used breast pump. The archetypal breast round and full with a small point at the nipple is considered the standard for breast type.

Breast cancer occurs in males as well but it accounts for a small percentage of all. The breast anatomy of males and females is slightly different. Diagram of a breastfed baby.

Although breast cancer is a fairly common malignancy affecting one out of every eight women in the u s. Female breasts have milk ducts and glandular tissue that aid breastfeeding. In women the breasts are composed principally of specialised tissue glandular tissue that produces milk.

Click for a larger view. In humans breast tissue begins to enlarge at puberty. In fact 80 per cent of the breast milk is removed in the first seven minutes when using a 2 phase breast pump at maximum comfort vacuum kent et al 2008.