These knitted breasts allow nurses and other health professionals to easily show women important massage techniques that let them stimulate their milk production and express their valuable first drops of milk. They are particularly helpful when there are language barriers.
Woollen breasts are also an excellent free alternative to expensive teaching aids that are used by health professionals to teach new mothers to express by hand before going on to use an electric pump.
Knitted Breast #1 is from www.knitty.com and the pattern was invented by a woman who lost a breast due to cancer. You can read the whole story on the link above (it is a good story!) but here is my favorite bit:
“I finished my first knitted titty an hour before the party and wore it with one of my favorite lacy underwires. When a friend, who had been following the whole titty saga, saw me she remarked, “You really did a great job! Your left breast looks almost as good as the right one — a bit lumpy but very realistic.”
“You know,” I replied, “It was my right breast that was removed.” ”
Knitted breast pattern #2 is by the same person but looks slightly easier to knit.
Knitted breast pattern #3 is a link to a PDF and it is from the Lactation Consultants of Great Britain website.
Link to the PDF is here: http://www.lcgb.org/knittedbreastpattern.pdf
Knitted breast pattern #4 is another link to a PDF on the Bliss website.
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Just wanted to let you know I linked to this great post from my blog after lots of questions about knitted breasts I received from people who watched my breastfeeding vlog last week! 
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great, I’m glad it’s helpful!
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