Mommy Makeover Procedures

Regardless of when you were last pregnant, one truth remains: childbirth affects your body and your appearance. When diet and exercise combined with a healthy lifestyle aren’t enough, there is another solution, and it’s called mommy makeover surgery. The mommy makeover completely transforms a woman’s body through various plastic surgery procedures. It’s customizable, transformative, and delivers dramatic, yet natural-looking results.

What Does the Mommy Makeover Treat?

Mommy makeover procedures are so popular because they surgically reverse the effects of childbirth and pregnancy on a woman’s body. Since it is a customizable surgery, it can address each patient’s concerns and needs. This surgery consists of multiple procedures, each of which is fully customizable.

Your plastic surgeon will work with you during your consultation to customize your mommy makeover surgery with the right combination of procedures to target your primary concerns and help you transform your body.

Loose Skin

Loose, sagging skin is a common side effect that results from being pregnant, and it’s very difficult to treat with non-invasive treatments alone. A plastic surgeon can remove excess skin on your abdomen, breasts, or other areas of your body during a mommy makeover surgery to improve your body contours and help you feel more confident about your appearance.

Excess Fat

Women often struggle with pockets of stubborn fat after pregnancy, even after reaching a healthy weight. Your plastic surgeon can remove this excess fat to permanently reduce total fat volume in your desired treatment area.

Cosmetic Imperfections

Since pregnancy and the associated weight gain and weight loss affect every woman differently, mommy makeover patients have different goals for their cosmetic surgery. Some want to address loose skin and sagging breasts, while others want to get breast implants to improve the shape and overall appearance of the breasts.

When you work with an experienced surgeon, you can discuss all your desired cosmetic goals and learn more about the typical procedures included in a mommy makeover, as well as other surgical options like clitoral hood reduction or breast reduction.

Separated Abdominal Muscles

Diastasis recti is another term that refers to separated abdominal muscles. This is a common issue among women who have had one or more children. Pregnancy causes the abdominal muscles to stretch, and sometimes, once they separate, they end up staying separated.

A tummy tuck with a focus on abdominal strengthening and tightening is typically performed to correct the separation of these muscles.

Stretch Marks

If pregnancy and childbirth have left you with new stretch marks or made existing ones worse, your board-certified plastic surgeon can give you details about the best ways to eliminate stretch marks during this procedure so you can have smooth, tight skin.

Who Is a Candidate?

The best candidates for a mommy makeover are women who want to boost their self-esteem by transforming their bodies after giving birth. Regardless of whether you have small children or older children, this combination of procedures can transform your body and your confidence and reverse the effects of pregnancy, childbirth, and nursing on your body.

Ideal candidates should be in good health and able to undergo general anesthesia. Women must reach a stable weight before moving forward with the mommy makeover and be done having children, as an additional pregnancy or significant weight gain after this plastic surgery will negatively affect the results. Patients must have realistic expectations about the procedure and be committed to following the aftercare instructions.

What’s Included in a Mommy Makeover?

One of the benefits of the mommy makeover is that it combines multiple procedures to ensure that every patient achieves their desired mommy makeover results. Most women who undergo a mommy makeover will get breast enhancement surgery, a tummy tuck, and liposuction.

However, the benefit of the mommy makeover is that it’s not just an individual procedure, and women aren’t limited to any specific procedures. By combining procedures, the surgeon will help transform your body so that your post-baby body looks even better than your pre-baby one.

Breast Surgery

Breast augmentation, breast lift, and breast reduction are the most popular breast enhancement procedures added to mommy makeover surgery.

Breast Augmentation

Breast augmentation is a procedure that typically uses an implant to increase breast volume and help women achieve their ideal breast size and shape. There are different types of implants, and each comes in various sizes, projections, and shapes.

Your plastic surgeon can show you the different options and give you details about the advantages of each so you can make an informed decision about which type of implant to choose.

Breast Lift

The breast lift is a plastic surgery procedure that women add to the mommy makeover to reverse the effects that giving birth and the associated weight gain and weight loss have on the breasts. During this procedure, the plastic surgeon removes any excess skin to correct sagging or drooping, lifts the breasts higher on the chest wall, and repositions the nipples if necessary.

Many women who undergo breast augmentation will also undergo a breast lift to enhance the results and address excess skin while also lifting the breasts higher on the chest wall.

Breast Reduction

For some patients, the breasts enlarge after pregnancy and nursing, which can cause complications like back and neck pain.

This surgical procedure can be added to a mommy makeover to help women achieve more proportional breasts that better suit their bodies and frames, and eliminate the pain and discomfort that result from oversized breasts.

Surgical Body Contouring

Liposuction

Liposuction is a form of surgical body contouring that targets excess fat in one or multiple areas. If you haven’t been able to lose stubborn fat even after eating a healthy diet, liposuction will do what diet and exercise cannot. The surgeon will use advanced surgical techniques during this surgical procedure to remove stubborn fat directly from the body to improve body contours and reduce fat volume.

The Tummy Tuck

The tummy tuck is a body sculpting procedure that targets loose or sagging skin on the abdomen that results from one or more pregnancies and weight loss. A board-certified surgeon can customize the tummy tuck and target the upper abdomen, the lower abdomen, or the entire abdomen. This surgery will help patients achieve a flatter stomach and improved body contours.

What To Expect From the Process

Your Mommy Makeover Consultation

The first step in the mommy makeover process is to schedule a consultation. You’ll meet with an experienced surgeon who will learn more about your medical history, current health, and treatment goals, and then determine whether you qualify for the mommy makeover.

Choosing Your Customized Cosmetic Procedures

Once you’re confirmed as a good candidate for the mommy makeover, your surgeon will customize your surgical procedure.

He will give you details about what the mommy makeover typically includes, like breast augmentation, breast lift, and tummy tuck, listen to your goals, and then design your surgical treatment plan.

Your Cosmetic Surgery

On the day of your surgery, you’ll need a responsible adult who can drive you to and from the procedure. Surgery times vary depending on the number of procedures you add to your treatment plan. When you work with a board-certified surgeon known for delivering excellent outcomes after surgery, you can expect the best results and feel confident about every step of the process.

The Mommy Makeover Recovery

The recovery time after a mommy makeover will span several weeks. You’ll need to avoid exercise and heavy lifting for at least six weeks after your surgery. You’ll also be given compression garments to wear to enhance and accelerate the healing process after surgery.

The total recovery period after surgery depends on your health at the time of your procedure and the number of surgeries you add to your treatment plan. Your surgeon will give you more details about what to expect from the recovery period so you have realistic expectations and can plan accordingly.

If you want to learn more about the mommy makeover and how it can transform your body and your confidence, we can help. We’ll give you all the details you need to know about your options and customize the perfect procedure for your needs. Contact Palms Wellington Plastic Surgery in Wellington, FL, to schedule a consultation with our world-renowned surgeon, Dr. Nir.