A Mommy Makeover can help you get your pre-baby body back!
The only thing worse than being pregnant during the summer is trying to shimmy into your pre-baby shorts and bikini the first summer after your baby is born. If you’ve always been trim and proud of your appearance, your post-pregnancy body can be a huge disappointment. After nine months of stretching, your stomach muscles and skin will still be somewhat stretched and loose. Let your stomach muscles relax and you instantly look like you’re 3 months pregnant. Definitely NOT what you were expecting!
Most first-time moms believe their body will return to its former sleek, sexy shape after their baby is born. With time and hours in the gym, your stomach muscles can regain quite a bit of their original elasticity, but few moms ever achieve the smooth, flat stomach they had before pregnancy. With each successive pregnancy – and each passing year – things just get worse. Your skin loses more elasticity the more it is stretched, and skin becomes less elastic with age. It’s a one-two punch that’s tough to recover from.
Of course, if you’re being honest with yourself, not all of that baby fat you gained during pregnancy was baby. Most women gain 20 or more pounds during pregnancy of which less than 10 pounds is baby. Those other 10 pounds (and usually more) are peanut butter and pickle sandwiches and Haagen-Dazs ice cream (or whatever it was you craved). No amount of hoping will remove that addition to your waistline and hips without a lot of dieting and long hours at the gym.
The bottom line is that many new moms are just as miserable the summer after their baby is born as they were when they were pregnant. Only now, there’s no hopeful expectation that giving birth will return their body to normal.
A Mommy Makeover can include a combination of procedures, such as a Lipo-Tummy Tuck or Lipo Mini-Tuck, wherein using the Smartlipo TriPlex device achieves more fat removal in addition to removal of skin excess. With this technique, a much improved contouring can be obtained.