Ladies Who have had Children! Tummy Pouch Before and Afters,

Jkuhn ~ yeah, my TT is years away, if I ever get one, it's one of those things, it would be nice, but there are more important things to spend money on!

Sissamae ~ Good luck on the 30 day shread! I'd love to follow your progress if you don't mind. Will you be taking pictures?

May I just say that I am very jealous of the lack of stretch marks, bumpy skin. The more I lose, the worse my stomach looks :ohwell:

yup, that's how mine is!

Here I am 9 months AFTER I gave birth!! (No, I am not pregnant in this photo!)
I was stupid and had a boob job when I was 21. I regret it. I wish I had small boobs now.



and here I am as of yesterday.....I now weigh in my low 120's (gained a few pounds of muscle from hardcore working out)

Wow you kept your boobs too, mine vanish when I loose weight!!! You look amazing.. Get into personal training, you worked hard to get where you are... xx

Here I am 9 months AFTER I gave birth!! (No, I am not pregnant in this photo!)




and here I am as of yesterday.....I now weigh in my low 120's (gained a few pounds of muscle from hardcore working out)

HOLY HAWT! amazing job! come be my trainer!

8 month old little girl here, definitely feeling the same... but instead of the pouch, mine is just a giant blob... like a slightly deflated balloon.... >.<

After my c-section 18 months ago, same thing here...very good way to word it. I just figure I'm destined to a life of spanx.

Here I am at 39 weeks with baby #2. I was 120 pounds when I got pregnant and was about 178 here (gave birth a couple of days later). The second picture is of me now (he's 8 but I lost all of my weight by the time he was 18 months). However my stomach looks much better now than ever due to the weight training. I do mostly heavy weights and little cardio. I just watch my diet and workout 4-5 times a week for about 45 minutes. I weigh 110 now.

Whoa you look amazing

I'm 6 weeks post abdominoplasty. These are my before and after. My after is 2 weeks post Tummy Tuck. It's only gotten better

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Did you have a c-section and still manage to get your stomach down like that?

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Here I am 9 months AFTER I gave birth!! (No, I am not pregnant in this photo!)




and here I am as of yesterday.....I now weigh in my low 120's (gained a few pounds of muscle from hardcore working out)

What did you do as far as workouts?? These are the results I want!!! Thanks for sharing the pics!

This is an absolutely brilliant thread!! I love it - I can see myself and my pouch in soo many of these pictures, I have hope!!

Thanks so so much for sharing these photos, you've all really spurred me on.

Best of luck to the ladies who still need to tone up that pouch, WE CAN DO IT xxxx

My main reason why I got into working out and eating better was because of my post pregnancy pouch.. I have 3 kids (vaginally).. 5 1/2, 3 1/2, and 10 months.. this post is inspirational!!! Everyone looks so great!!! Makes me feel so much better about being able to do it!!

Hi,
I will say, every woman's body is so very different and depending on the extent of damage done to the adominal muscles and skin stretching, sometimes the only alternative is a tuck. So just keep an open mind. If you get back to your goal and you lay down on the floor and can place your fingers in the midldle through the adominal wall there is a seperation in the fascia. So the pouch will most likely remain. Unfortunately no amount of work can fix that. Regarding the skin stretching...genetics does play a role...some women's skin shrink back beautifully and other's, the skin is stretched and will not snap back regardless of all the compounds used (I know I tried them all).

Up to 2007 I had had four beautiful babies all vaginally and got back down to goal, weight wise. I was toned and fit everywhere except...you guessed it, my stomach. No matter how much work I did, my admonial had almost a 2in seperation in my fascia, with the 4th baby I developed an adnominal hernia, and the skin stretched past my "lower regions" when stretched. It was disheartening to say the least to work so hard and have strong stomach muscles, but still have the pouch and all that excess skin. So, I opted for a tummy tuck July 2007.

The story gets better...I thought I was done having babies...BUT...God said differently and I had another beautiful baby girl at almost 40 years old. GUESS WHAT? The tuck held...the sutures didn't tear, but my abs were so tight near the end I could hardly breath. My skin stretched a little again, but nothing like before and my abs actually look better right now than before the last baby because I am working harder than I ever have in my life.

Hope this helps...I pray you won't need a tuck, but don't be down if you do, you have given birth to wonderful children and there is "help" to restore the damage if needed. I am soooo thankful for that surgery because I wasn't happy looking in the mirror at the damage and I have never regretted for a second having abdominoplasty. I will say,It is worse pain than any of my childbirths, but I would do it again for the results.


I wish you all the best!

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