Mommy Makeover in Newport Beach

What Is a Mommy Makeover?

A Mommy Makeover is a procedure that combines multiple cosmetic surgeries strategically chosen to target the areas of the body most affected by pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. Most often, the surgeries included in this procedure are a tummy tuck, a breast procedure (breast augmentation, lift, or reduction), and liposuction. These surgeries target the breasts and stomach, as these body areas go through a lot of changes during the pregnancy process. You can minimize recovery time and expedite dramatic results by undergoing all of these procedures at once.

What Are the Benefits of a Mommy Makeover in Newport Beach, CA?

A Mommy Makeover is designed to restore and enhance your pre-pregnancy body, helping you feel comfortable and confident in your skin. While having children and starting a family is an immeasurable joy for many women, the drastic changes to the body after giving birth are typically unwanted. It can be uncomfortable to have sagging excess skin in places where you have never before experienced those issues.

With the typical Mommy Makeover surgery combinations, excess skin can be trimmed, the remaining skin tightened, and the breasts can be lifted and reshaped to balance the proportions and create a harmonized silhouette.

Am I a Candidate for a Mommy Makeover?

Women do not necessarily have to have children to be candidates for a Mommy Makeover. This procedure can greatly benefit all women who want to target excess sagging skin in the breasts and stomach region.

Factors that may make you a good candidate for a Mommy Makeover include:

• Being in good general health
• Being able to maintain a stable weight
• Having realistic expectations for surgeries and results
• Wanting to remove excess skin and stubborn fat on the stomach
• Wanting to enhance and improve the appearance of the breasts
• Not smoking
• Not planning future pregnancies

Staying at a stable weight and avoiding subsequent pregnancies is key to achieving the best Mommy Makeover results and being able to maintain them. Weight fluctuations can negatively affect and possibly reverse your Mommy Makeover results altogether. If you are planning on losing more weight or getting pregnant in the future, it is highly recommended to postpone your Mommy Makeover plans until you are at your goal weight and done having children.

Schedule your consultation with Dr. Grazer to learn if you’re a candidate for Mommy Makeover surgery.

What Are My Options for Mommy Makeover Surgery?

While a Mommy Makeover typically consists of a breast procedure, tummy tuck, and liposuction, you can choose to include whichever procedures will help you achieve your desired outcome. During your consultation with Dr. Grazer, ask about what other options are available to combine with your Mommy Makeover.

Breast Lift

While a stretched tummy and excess weight may be the most obvious signs of pregnancy, the breasts undergo a significant amount of change as well. Especially after breastfeeding, a woman’s bust can appear saggy and deflated. A breast lift is designed to restore the perkiness of the breast tissue by removing excess skin and tightening the remaining skin.

Breast Augmentation

After childbirth and breastfeeding, the breasts may lose their natural volume, causing them to have a deflated appearance. Breast augmentation restructures the shape and fullness of the breasts, restoring them to their pre-pregnancy shape. Additionally, breast augmentation can even be used as a part of your Mommy Makeover to attain a chest size or shape that you may have wanted even before pregnancy. For women who want to restore lost breast volume and also eliminate sagging, a breast augmentation with a lift can achieve the desired results.

Breast Reduction

For women who struggle with overly large breasts, a breast reduction surgery can make the breasts a more manageable size. Large breasts can cause chronic back, neck, and shoulder pain as they weigh the chest down. Women with heavy breasts will often experience skin irritation where their breasts sag and brush against the rest of their body. Breast reduction removes excess breast tissue and skin to resize the breasts. In cases where there is a lot of excess fat in the breasts, liposuction may be used to remove some fat.

Tummy Tuck

Perhaps the most drastic change to a woman’s body during pregnancy is the rapid expansion of her abdominal area. As your abdomen expands, muscles become separated, and the skin stretches. Once you give birth, you are still left with the excess stretched-out skin and often also have stubborn pockets of fat in the stomach. A tummy tuck corrects these issues by tightening the abdominal muscles and excising excess skin from the waist. Stretch marks caused by pregnancy can also be removed during this procedure, and pockets of fat stubbornly clinging to excess skin will also be removed. The result is a more toned, firm, and smooth midsection with defined abdominal contours.

Liposuction

Even after you have lost some of the weight from your pregnancy, it is possible and common for some pockets of fat to remain in the body. This often remains the case even after diligent diet and exercise. While some of this fat can be removed during a tummy tuck, any remaining fat can be handled through a liposuction procedure. A small tube is inserted into areas like the arms, back, midsection, thighs, and hips to remove stubborn deposits of fat. When done in tandem with a tummy tuck procedure, dramatic results can be achieved in your body shape.

How Is Mommy Makeover Surgery Performed?

When preparing for your procedure, it is best to avoid any anti-inflammatory drugs (e.g., aspirin or ibuprofen) for at least two weeks since these drugs thin the blood and could exacerbate any bleeding. Patients should also refrain from smoking for six weeks and from drinking alcohol for at least one week.

Before surgery begins on the day of your procedure, Dr. Grazer will review your surgical plan and the techniques that will be used to ensure you are both still on the same page. Markings will be made in the agreed-upon incision locations.

Since a Mommy Makeover utilizes three separate major cosmetic procedures, a board-certified anesthesiologist will administer IV (intravenous) sedation and local anesthesia to provide the most comfortable and safe surgery possible.

Once you’re under anesthesia, the chosen surgeries for your Mommy Makeover procedure will be performed.

What Is the Recovery From Mommy Makeover Surgery Like?

Following your surgery, you will be required to have someone drive you home, and you will also need assistance in the first 24 to 48 hours of recovery. You should also expect some swelling, which will last anywhere between a few days and several weeks, depending on the extent of surgery used during your procedure. You may experience some discomfort or pain, which can be managed through prescription medication.

Vigorous exercise should be avoided for around six weeks, but most patients are able to resume normal activities after two weeks. You should avoid lifting anything heavy and participating in strenuous physical activity.

Dr. Grazer will provide you with a list of instructions following your Mommy Makeover procedure to help expedite your recovery. It is essential that you remain well-rested, limit physical activity, and take any medication that your surgeon prescribes. A compression garment should be worn on the treatment areas (breasts, stomach, etc.) to reduce swelling.

Make sure to attend your follow-up appointments with Dr. Grazer to ensure that everything is healing properly.

What Results Can I Expect After a Mommy Makeover?

Due to the swelling and bruising after surgery, it will take some time for your Mommy Makeover results to be visible. However, you should see a noticeable difference in your body immediately after your procedure. Your results will be more apparent as your body heals and swelling subsides. Your results will continue to develop over the next few months, and many patients see their final Mommy Makeover results within six months to a year after surgery.

Why Choose Dr. Grazer for Your Mommy Makeover?

Choosing to get a Mommy Makeover can be an exciting and nerve-wracking experience. Many women are ready to say goodbye to body insecurities they’ve harbored since giving birth; however, it can be difficult to choose the right surgeon to perform your procedure. Any surgery requires a certain level of trust between the patient and the surgeon to achieve the desired outcome. Dr. Grazer understands that patients have specific goals in mind that they wish to achieve with a Mommy Makeover, and he wants to help them attain their dream bodies.

As a board-certified surgeon specializing in aesthetic plastic surgery, Dr. Grazer is highly experienced in Mommy Makeover surgeries. His expertise, paired with the compassion and attention he gives to his patients, makes for an incredible Mommy Makeover experience—from the consultation to every follow-up appointment after surgery.