Breastnotes

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You may want to refer to these Anatomical Drawings for specific anatomical features mentioned below.en and woman have breasts. Just about anything that you will find in a female breast will be found in a male breast, but some of the components will be undeveloped in the male. Neither men, prepubescent boys nor pubescent males expect to see any breast development on their bodies, unless they put on a lot of fatty deposits or they build up some fantastic "pecs" in the weight room. Large pecs are the result of muscular development behind the breast (pectoralis major and pectoralis minor muscles), and should not be confused with breast development. Women that do exercises to increase their breast size merely increase the pectoral muscle size, which makes their chest wall measurement (above the breasts) larger. Their cup size does not increase, but could actually decrease if they work really hard developing those pecs. Exercising muscles to develop them requires energy that may come from the burning of fatty deposits stored in the body, and those deposits may be those stored in the breasts. When babies (males and females both) are only about three days old, a secretion called "witch's milk" may be expressed from the breast. This is thought by some experts to be caused by the excessive hormones in the mother's blood just before she gave birth. They were in her blood to allow her to produce milk. The fetus does not share the mother's blood while it is inside her uterus, but hormones, vitamins, minerals, etc. will pass through the placenta and umbilical cord to the fetus. Females may secrete a small amount of fluid from their nipples anytime after their breasts mature (and she is not pregnant or lactating). Be alarmed only if there is a sudden change in amount expressed, or its color changes (or becomes red), or if one side suddenly is different than the other side. About 85 percent of the males will have some breast swelling during their puberty. This panics the males, and causes some concern to their parents as well. This is usually a temporary situation that seldom exists for more than a year or two. A call to his doctor should alleviate any concerns that anyone may have. Some medications may cause male breast growth, so check medication specification charts for "causes gynecomastia" (-mastia means "breasts" and gyneco- means "of a woman"). Gynecomastia caused by medications is usually temporary, but it can also come in a man's later years due to his hormonal changes. Males should be just as aware of their breasts as females should be of theirs. Males can get breast cancer. Any unusual changes to the skin or the interior of the breast or emissions from the nipple should be quickly brought to the attention of their doctor. A woman's breasts will produce colostrum for the first several days after delivery of a child. This is a type of pre-milk, and "true" breast milk will follow that. See our section on Breastfeeding for further information about the production of breast milk and breastfeeding. Some men actually have successfully produced breast milk.

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