Mommy Makeover

00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:08.360 A Mommy Makeover operation is a very common procedure. 00:00:08.360 --> 00:00:12.280 Everybody wants to know what is involved in a Mommy Makeover, and it's typically 00:00:12.310 --> 00:00:17.980 to restore the shape and appearance of a woman's breasts and body after pregnancy. 00:00:18.010 --> 00:00:22.280 There's more than one procedure that we do at the same time in order to address all 00:00:22.310 --> 00:00:26.060 the areas that get affected from pregnancy and childbirth. 00:00:26.080 --> 00:00:28.660 This very often includes a breast lift, 00:00:28.690 --> 00:00:34.180 breast reduction, or breast augmentation, and at the same time, 00:00:34.210 --> 00:00:39.920 abdominal surgery, like a tummy tuck and liposuction, to restore their waist and 00:00:39.950 --> 00:00:43.660 their abdominal appearance to improve their overall figure. 00:00:43.680 --> 00:00:45.720 Basically, put things back to where they 00:00:45.750 --> 00:00:50.100 were before or, better yet, to make them better than they were when they started. 00:00:50.120 --> 00:00:53.800 When you come in for a consultation for a Mommy Makeover, we're going to evaluate 00:00:53.830 --> 00:00:57.460 and examine all the areas that you're concerned about. 00:00:57.490 --> 00:01:01.940 Typically, it's the things that have changed during or after pregnancy. 00:01:01.970 --> 00:01:05.920 That's going to include your breasts, it's going to include your waistline, your 00:01:05.950 --> 00:01:09.770 abdomen, your hips, and sometimes also your buttocks. 00:01:09.800 --> 00:01:15.290 The procedures that we can do to improve these areas are going to include lipo 00:01:15.320 --> 00:01:21.520 suction, fat RAFTing, a tummy tuck, tighten your abdominal wall, fix the 00:01:21.550 --> 00:01:26.000 muscles of your abdomen to make it nice and strong again, improve your figure and 00:01:26.030 --> 00:01:30.020 your waistline, and at the same time, address your breasts. 00:01:30.050 --> 00:01:33.570 Using the same type of techniques that we might use for cosmetic breast 00:01:33.600 --> 00:01:38.210 augmentation, with a breast implant or a breast reduction to make your breasts 00:01:38.240 --> 00:01:43.980 smaller, and/or a breast lift to make them tighter and lifted at the same time. 00:01:44.010 --> 00:01:45.920 When we combine all those procedures 00:01:45.950 --> 00:01:51.140 together in one operation in one day, we call it a Mommy Makeover. 00:01:51.170 --> 00:01:53.440 A Mommy Makeover surgery will typically 00:01:53.470 --> 00:01:58.780 be a little bit longer than one single breast surgery or one single tummy surgery 00:01:58.810 --> 00:02:02.420 because we're adding multiple surgeries at the same time. 00:02:02.450 --> 00:02:06.290 It could be four hours, five hours, sometimes even a little bit longer. 00:02:06.320 --> 00:02:08.610 Typically, you would go home the same day, 00:02:08.640 --> 00:02:13.020 and the recovery is approximately two weeks if we're combining surgeries. 00:02:13.040 --> 00:02:16.040 You're going to be up and walking on the very first day after surgery. 00:02:16.040 --> 00:02:17.920 You're going to take some painkillers for 00:02:17.950 --> 00:02:21.300 a couple of days, but you'll feel fine after about a week. 00:02:21.330 --> 00:02:23.480 You have to avoid any strenuous physical 00:02:23.510 --> 00:02:27.800 activity or exercise, or stay out of work for about two weeks time. 00:02:27.830 --> 00:02:30.120 By the time you're a few weeks out from 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:32.080 surgery, you'll be able to go back to all of your normal activities.