The short answer is no. Whether breasts be very big and billowing or small and on the flat side, the amount of milk-making tissue is about the same.
The difference in size is due largely to fat deposits. Also, milk production depends far more on the mother’s hormones and the baby’s suckling than on her breast size. As long as she is well, and the baby is feeding well and regularly, she will produce milk.
Even the amount of food and drink she takes won’t make a lot of difference; mothers who were themselves virtually starving in occupied countries during the war (and in famine-stricken parts of the world today) have still managed to make milk for their babies; in Nature the welfare of the next generation is always paramount and the baby draws from the mother all she has to give as long as he needs it.
One problem in feeding that may arise because of breast size however involves the extra billowing breast; if the well-endowed mother is not shown how to hold the breast away from the baby’s nose while allowing him to take all of the nipple well into his mouth he may not be able to breathe as he feeds, and this can lead to ‘fighting’ at the breast. But as long as the mother is taught the right way to hold her baby when she feeds him, she should have few problems.
Help with breastfeeding can be obtained from the hospital midwife, the health visitor, and also some excellent organizations.
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