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Benefits of Mommy Makeover and when you should consider it.
Benefits:
- Flatter tummy.
- Narrower waist.
- Feeling more comfortable in a crop-top or two-piece bathing suit.
- More attractive breasts.
- Better posture.
- Improved core strength.
- Improved self-confidence.
- Return to your pre-pregnancy shape.
- Ability to wear a wider variety of clothing styles
- Help with weight control because of an inability to eat larger food portions.
When you should consider it:
From six months after your last pregnancy or after discontinuing breast feeding.
What is a Mommy Makeover?
Mommy Makeover is the common name for a combined tummy-tuck and breast enlargement.
Following childbirth and breast feeding, there may be changes to the shape of the tummy and the breasts that do not improve with time or exercise. Changes can vary from a slight roundness of the tummy with a minor loss of breast volume and perkiness, to a look of being six months pregnant with sagging deflated breasts. There may also be other long-term effects, such as stretch marks, a lax fatty, pubic area, permanent weight gain and of course, C-section scars.
A common complaint is that stomach exercises do not flatten a round stomach. Exercises simply don’t achieve a flat stomach because they work on the muscles and not the ligament that holds the muscles together. This ligament, known as the linea alba, is also stretched from the pregnancy and because of this, the abdominal wall bulges. The loss of muscle tone in the abdominal wall and pelvic floor can cause a dragging feeling and lower back pain.The weakened pelvic floor may lead to stress urinary incontinence with coughing, exercise, and laughter and also a loss of vaginal tone. The pelvic floor muscles can be strengthened with Emsella HIFEM treatments (see box).
Non-surgical options for a Mommy Makeover are EmsculptNEO and Emsella.
EmsculptNeo improves the abdominal wall strength and narrows the linea alba. EmsculptNeo uses HIFEM (High-Intensity Field Electromagnet) energy to non-surgically bring your separated abdominal muscles together. EmsculptNEO contracts a hundred per-cent of your muscle fibers compared to an intense workout which can only contract sixty per-cent, at most. EmsculptNEO can also narrow the gap between the rectus muscles by 19%, helping to make your abdomen firmer, flatter and more toned.
If you are considering strengthening the entire core muscle group, you can also pair EmsculptNEO with Emsella. Emsella targets the pelvic floor muscles. A weakened pelvic floor causes loss of bladder support and urinary incontinence. Emsella utilizes electromagnetic energy to deliver thousands of supramaximal pelvic floor muscle contractions in a single session. These contractions re-educates the pelvic floor muscles of incontinent patients. One Emsella session is equal to approximately 11,200 Kegel exercises! Treatments do not require a wand or a device in the vagina, and they are performed while you are fully clothed.
A Mommy Makeover may also include liposuction of the hips, thighs, and pubic area.
Breasts
Breasts often lose their perkiness and volume after pregnancy and breast feeding. There may also be stretch marks and an enlargement of the areola. Breast feeding tends to make all of these changes worse. Chest exercises and push-ups neither lift nor enlarge a sagging or deflated breast.
The time to consider a Mommy Makeover is after the last pregnancy. A tummy-tuck or a Mommy Makeover is ideally performed at least 6 months after childbirth and breast feeding. The stomach and breasts need to recover and regain their natural tissue strength. There is no ideal age for a Mommy Makeover, although the surgical recovery may be less complicated in younger patients. The increase in core strength with the resultant improvement in back pain and posture can be dramatic. Improving core-strength is also important in preventing spinal curvature that occusr with post-menopausal osteoporosis.
A Mommy Makeover surgery is commonly a tummy-tuck combined with a breast lift and or enlargement. Liposuction of hips and thighs can also be added. The tummy-tuck and the breast surgery may be performed together or separately. If the surgeries are done separately, the tummy-tuck is the first procedure performed because the breast surgery is an easier and quicker recovery.
Tummy-tucks combine the repair of split rectus muscles, a lift of the pubic skin, removal of excess lower abdominal skin and fat and excision of a C-Section scar. Breast procedures vary, depending on the size of the breasts and how much they are sagging. Common breast surgeries are breast enlargement with implants, breast lift and breast reduction.
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So, if you are considering a tummy tuck or breast surgery after pregnancy, then call for an appointment and a complimentary consultation with Dr. Kirwan.
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