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virgomama22
virgomama22 Posts: 2
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After having my baby the skin on my tummy has been extremely saggy, like losing 100 pounds saggy. How in the world do you tighten that???

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  • jessydelong
    jessydelong Posts: 13 Member
    I'm wondering the same. I have two kids and my belly is gross saggy. Idk if losing weight will help it tighten back up or if I'm going to need a dang tummy tuck :grumble: but I wouldn't trade a tight belly for my two beautiful children :happy:
  • RBXChas
    RBXChas Posts: 2,708 Member
    You can only give yourself time for your belly to "bounce back." Lotions and the like may help tighten what's not particularly loose, but if you have skin that is literally grab-able, chances are that you can only get rid of it surgically :( Skin only has so much elasticity.
  • Pepper2185
    Pepper2185 Posts: 994 Member
    You can only give yourself time for your belly to "bounce back." Lotions and the like may help tighten what's not particularly loose, but if you have skin that is literally grab-able, chances are that you can only get rid of it surgically :( Skin only has so much elasticity.

    This is what I was going to say.

    Did you have your baby recently? Your stomach might just need more time to shrink on its own.
  • chantelp89
    chantelp89 Posts: 590 Member
    I've managed to shrink my pooch, but this flap is t going anywhere. I have to wear camis under everything or you can see it : (
  • JenniferAntolik
    JenniferAntolik Posts: 6
    If it's skin you're stuck with it :-/ When you gain weight, your body creates extra skin to accommodate that extra weight, unfortunately the body won't also *un-create* that skin. I am thinking I am going to have a little of that saggy skin also-one of the badges we wear for bearing children.
  • blink1021
    blink1021 Posts: 1,115 Member
    depending on whether you had a c section or vaginally usually it will tighten up over time. Again it only has so much elasticity but drink your water ladies this will help with elasticity and exercise it may or may not go back to normal depends on how much weight you gained. If you had a c section for some women when they cut it sometimes cuts through the muscle and unfortunately will never go away, my sister has this problem she will forever have this tiny pooch at her lower abdomen its just how her stomach was divided when she had her c section. Her stomach however did bounce back ever where else and does not sag and she gained 60lbs.

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