Looking but not seeing

Seems kind of late in the game to figure this out, but . . .

The first detailed modern study of the breasts of lactating women has overturned what the textbooks have been saying for the past 150 years.

The new finding also suggests that breast reduction surgery could pose a greater risk to a woman's ability to breastfeed, a researcher says.

The study by a team from the University of Western Australia published in the current issue of the Journal of Anatomy shows the lactating breast has fewer milk ducts than once thought. . .

. . . it was previously accepted that the breast contains 15 to 20 milk ducts. But it's now revealed there is an average of nine milk ducts, with some women having just four.

Posted by David on June 23, 2005 10:59 PM