We recommend waiting at least six months after your child's birth to seek a mommy makeover. Your body needs time to recover from pregnancy and an opportunity to naturally lose some of the pregnancy weight with a fitness regimen. Mommy makeovers should also be postponed until after you are done nursing. While breastfeeding, your breasts take on a different size and shape. We will easily achieve your desired results after your breasts are completely dried out of milk. Most importantly, if you plan to become pregnant again, Muse Plastic Surgery suggests you wait on a mommy makeover until you no longer intend to have more children. While a mommy makeover poses no health risks if you get pregnant again, a subsequent pregnancy will almost certainly undo the changes accomplished with surgery. Therefore, it is better to wait so you can reap the rewards of plastic surgery in the long term.

Although bodily changes differ from woman to woman, you can probably expect to see the most significant changes in your stomach and breasts. As your pregnant belly expands, so too does the surrounding skin. If your skin is not incredibly elastic, this skin may not fit your contours after you lose the baby weight. You may also discover that the weight comes off less quickly than before, with fat deposits clinging despite diet and exercise. Furthermore, your abdominal muscles may have separated due to pregnancy. As for the breasts, they get larger while building functional tissue to help with breastfeeding. When nursing is over, however, the tissue atrophies and the breasts may be smaller than where they started. Sagging is also typical after breastfeeding.

None of the surgeries included in a mommy makeover are considered weight-loss surgeries. Losing weight can be frustrating after pregnancy, but Muse Plastic Surgery suggests you try to trim down with diet and exercise — the reason is that the surgeries included with mommy makeover are designed to eliminate stubborn pockets of fat rather than excess fat that could come off with a healthy lifestyle. The closer you are to your goal weight, the more successful your mommy makeover will likely be in achieving your ideal body contours.

While most women choose to have all mommy makeover procedures performed on the same day so that they may overlap the recovery times, if you would prefer to space out the surgeries, Dr. Jones and Dr. Lovell can develop a surgical plan and schedule that meets your needs.

The price of a mommy makeover depends on which and how many procedures you choose to include as part of your mommy makeover. The good news is that you save money on certain costs, like anesthesia, by undergoing multiple surgeries simultaneously. You will receive a complete cost breakdown once you devise a surgical plan with us during the consultation phase.