Tummy Tuck

It will be interesting to see what people say.
I have had 2 cesareans and would love to get rid of the roll..
However I am not going to do anything surgery wise until I have done everything I can on my own.

I saw a great report on the news about this. This woman was a fitness guru but still had the pooch from her baby. Her body was amazing and her upper abs were a 4 pack. Not a 6 due to the extra skin. She opted for the tuck and had great success. I would like one as well but I want to make sure there are no more children in the future for me. I'm kinda hoping to have one more but that means I actually have to get out and start dating again. Boo!

I have had 6 babies, 4 of them being in the past 4 years and my stomach is bad. I want to lose a decent amount of weight before I plan my tummy tuck, but it needs to be done, my stretch marks are so bad and my stomach is so stretched out, that I'm pretty sure that surgery will be the only thing that will help it....I plan to lose the weight, get my tubes tied, then go for the tummy tuck. But I am also interested in hearing from people who have gone thru it

My mum had one perhaps a year or 2 ago.She was in pain for perhaps a good 4 months after,a little stiff as the skin was very tight.She is over the moon with the results.She went to thailand to have hers done,couldn't say enough things about the hospital,doctors and treatment.On a personal note,they remade her belly button and I feel is a little strange looking but it was her choice.

On a side note,my half sister went with her and also had the same procedure.A year later she feel pregnant carried to term no issues.

In response to leigh,my little sister had similar (breast) she had 2 kids and was never happy with her figure.Again she went with my mum and half sister(yea family thing:P) to thailand.Her boobs are perfect,they came from under her armpits to put them in so scarring is almost invisible,they look and feel real.Having said that when she first approached the doctors for her 'fitting' her hubby wanted huge,the doctor refused them due to the fact he felt they wouldn't suit her figure.They were right.The difference to her confidence is remarkable,sometimes it can be a huge negative problem if there is something we cannot change via weight loss etc and as far as im concerned im all for it due to the positive changes to her outlook.

The only bad thing she can say was for a week or so after surgery the nurse would have to massage the implants and bub said it was incredibly painful.

Hi, I had a tummy tuck back in 1998 after having 3 babies left me with a 12 inch apron of skin. It was quite a major piece of surgery but worth it 10 times over! It took me 6 weeks to recover but the relief of getting rid of all the excess skin along with the infections and embarrassment was so worth it. What it did for my self esteem was and still is imesurable and I was very very lucky to have this done on the NHS for free. If you can afford it, do for it.

I'm 14 days post-op from my mommy makeover. See my siggie for stats. I did it as a way of celebrating being done with the pregnancy & babies stage of my life and moving on to the next chapter of my life. I only basically had loose skin from about 1/2" above my bellybutton on down (see pic in gallery of pink yoga bra & grey shorts to really see) I was lucky enough to have all vaginal deliveries, but because I am so tall, I carried them all low & in the front like basketballs... not kidding; there's actually a pic of me in a bikini-top & yoga pants at 38wks with my last baby in my pic gallery here. I was also lucky that all the stretchmarks from the first pregnancy were faded to invisible, simply "reused" for subsequent pregnancies and invisible by the nearly decade later when I had the surgery. I feel awesome now, I had a great doc; barely any pain and switched from a binder to rib-high nude Spanx knockoffs last week since my swelling is so minimal and they're way easier to camouflage when I'm out & about. There's a pic of me 9 days post op here: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/293681--who-wants-to-be-a-hot-mom-group-7?page=8#posts-4375477

My biggest advice: 1.) be sure you're done having kids, unless you want to possibly go through the whole thing over again. VERY FEW women recover perfectly after a post-TT pregnancy; I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but that's why my hubby & I are calling this "investment-method birth control" (along with a 10-year Paraguard IUD that will be renewed as long as necessary). 2.) Don't do it to address anything more than skin. Sure, you may have some stubborn fatty areas, but there's a difference between getting a tummy-tuck at 28% bodyfat and at 19% bodyfat. I made sure my body was all it could be BEFORE turning to surgery, which was the ONLY way to address the loose skin. Even so, my doc recommended a very minor 20-30cc of lipo on each flank and THAT was the most painful part, believe it or not. Besides, I liked my doc too much to be one of those patients that was "gross" to operate on because they have a lot of fat to work around; they never say it in the operation documentaries, but the surgeons almost never fail to acknowlege/compliment/seem relieved when they operate on a fit person with minimal bodyfat. I'm proud to be one of the latter patients! It also makes recovery much easier, I didn't even have to deal with having those gross "drains" post-op.