There are two concerns associated with the effects on children:
the safety of the milk from mothers with breast implants for breast feeding children
the effects of silicones and other chemicals on children born of mothers with breast implants (second-generation effects).
It is not known if a small amount of silicone may pass from the silicone shell of an implant into breast milk. If this occurs, it is not known what effect it may have on the nursing infant.
There are no current methods for detecting silicone levels in breast milk.
There is convincing evidence that infants breast-fed by mothers with breast implants receive no higher silicon intakes from breast milk than infants breast-fed by mothers without breast implants.
Silicon is an element that is one component of the polymer silicone and is one of the most abundant elements on the earth. Everyone is exposed to silicon.
Concerns have been also raised about the potential damaging effects on children born of mothers with implants.
The information is insufficient or flawed to draw definite conclusions about this issue. In other words, it is not known what effect breast implants may have on an unborn baby (fetus) and the nursing infant.
Several studies have suggested that the risk of birth defects overall is not increased in children born after implant surgery. These studies are comforting, but, because they are small and of short duration, they cannot rule out a very small risk.