Every Morning, Two Bras and a Baby Who Couldn’t Latch
Sanjuna is an IT professional and a new mother. For the first few months after her daughter was born, mornings looked like this: wake up, put on two bras to make things look even, drape a dupatta around herself before stepping out of the bedroom, and then settle in for the next two to three hours with a milk extractor.
That last part was the hardest.
Her left breast had been slightly larger than the right for about three years — roughly 20% more volume, enough to notice but manageable. Tests had come back normal. The mammary gland was mildly enlarged. Doctors had suggested she wait until after pregnancy before doing anything surgical. So she waited.
What nobody had quite prepared her for was how dramatically things could change after delivery.
“Once I delivered, the left one started growing much bigger, it was like 70% bigger than the right one and I couldn’t feed my baby which was like a biggest problem for me.”
The left breast had grown so large, and the nipple so flat, that her baby simply could not latch. What should have been a natural, instinctive part of new motherhood became a daily logistical problem with no clean solution.
“I had to sit for at least 2-3 hours every day with the milk exporter and had to export the milk and feed her which was like very very problematic situation.”
For five to six months, Sanjuna lived inside this routine. The physical asymmetry was visible enough that she felt self-conscious leaving any room. The emotional weight — low confidence, mood swings, the quiet grief of not being able to do something as fundamental as feed her child directly — sat on top of everything else that comes with early motherhood. It was a lot to carry.
The Morning She Could Hold Her Baby on Both Sides
Now, Sanjuna’s mornings are different.
She gets up and gets dressed — one bra, no dupatta worn as a shield, no second layer pulled over herself before she can face the day. There are no hours spent attached to a machine. She picks up her daughter and feeds her the way she had always hoped to.
“Now I am perfectly fine, I am able to hold my baby both sides. Earlier it was just the right side, now I can hold her on the left side as well.”
The symmetry between her breasts has been restored. The inverted nipple that made breastfeeding on the left side physically impossible is no longer a barrier. And when she looks in the mirror, there are no visible scars from the surgery — nothing to mark what she went through, except the absence of everything that was making her life so difficult.
The low confidence is gone. The mood swings that had become part of her daily texture as a new mother have lifted. She no longer has to think about how to position herself in a room or what she needs to layer over herself before she steps out. She is, in her own words, perfectly fine.
One Consultation, One Day in Hospital, One Decision That Changed Everything
The path from those exhausting mornings to this one wasn’t complicated — but it did require Sanjuna to take a step she had been uncertain about for a long time.
After months of managing on her own, she sat down with her husband, who works as a general physician, and talked through the situation honestly. He encouraged her to consult a surgeon — to at least understand whether a non-surgical or surgical solution existed. Several people in her circle pointed her toward Dr. Anjali Saple at Divyam Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery in Visakhapatnam. Her husband was among them.
When Sanjuna arrived at the clinic, she wasn’t sure what to expect. She had been carrying this problem for months, and while she knew something needed to change, she hadn’t quite let herself believe it could.
“I was very low confident because I had to wear 2 bras just to have both of them in sync and I had to wear extra dupatta or shawl every time I had to go out or any room in the house.”
She explained her situation to Dr. Anjali. What she received in return wasn’t a clinical rundown of options — it was something quieter and more important: certainty.
“She was very confident that my old age could come back. So just looking at her face, I had this motivational spark, so I just said yes to the surgery.”
Sanjuna underwent breast reduction surgery under general anesthesia. The procedure corrected the severe asymmetry that had developed after delivery, addressed the nipple position that had made breastfeeding impossible, and left no visible scarring. She was discharged the same day.
The surgical experience itself barely registers in her memory now. What she remembers is the months before — the daily extraction sessions, the second bra, the dupatta, the mood swings. Not the surgery.
Dr. Anjali Saple has been performing plastic and reconstructive surgery in Visakhapatnam for over 25 years, with more than 10,000 consultations and a 99% complication-free rate. For Sanjuna, those numbers weren’t what made the difference. It was the moment she looked at the doctor’s face and saw, for the first time in months, that there was a clear way forward.
Her closing message to anyone who might be sitting with a similar situation — uncertain, exhausted, not sure who to turn to — was simple and direct:
“If you have any problems, anything, something similar to me and if you have no person to reach out, you can come here, sit here, discuss your problems with her and she will take care of you.”