Mommy Makeover Surgery

00:00:05.920 --> 00:00:09.776 Mommy makeover is a very, hyped media term now. 00:00:09.843 --> 00:00:13.280 All a mommy makeover is, and it's a combination of 00:00:13.514 --> 00:00:15.582 some of these body surgeries typically. 00:00:15.749 --> 00:00:18.986 That's all it means. It just means it's not just a tummy tuck. 00:00:19.052 --> 00:00:22.689 A mommy makeover most commonly involves a tummy tuck, 00:00:22.756 --> 00:00:24.391 and some form of breast surgery. 00:00:24.458 --> 00:00:28.228 But really, it's just any kind of surgery after you've had pregnancy. 00:00:28.295 --> 00:00:30.564 The most common mommy makeover I do 00:00:30.631 --> 00:00:34.001 would entail three surgeries most commonly or four. 00:00:34.334 --> 00:00:36.537 That usually would be something like, 00:00:37.171 --> 00:00:39.973 liposuction, a tummy tuck of some variety, 00:00:40.140 --> 00:00:42.809 a breast lift or reduction, sometimes implants, 00:00:42.910 --> 00:00:46.313 so it's like tummy, breast, and a BBL, 00:00:46.380 --> 00:00:49.570 like a Brazilian butt lift or buttock augmentation. 00:00:49.650 --> 00:00:53.153 That's because the mom might have gained weight and lost it, 00:00:53.220 --> 00:00:56.924 and now they want their booty back, and their skin tightened, 00:00:57.090 --> 00:00:58.458 and their breasts have deflated. 00:00:58.592 --> 00:01:03.374 That's probably the most common form of mommy makeover that I would say I do. 00:01:03.497 --> 00:01:05.933 The length of a mommy makeover procedure 00:01:07.167 --> 00:01:09.436 goes off of how many surgeries am I combining. 00:01:09.770 --> 00:01:12.770 I would say the average is probably 4-6 hours 00:01:12.906 --> 00:01:14.508 because you're doing lipo, and a tummy tuck, 00:01:14.575 --> 00:01:15.576 and some sort of breast thing. 00:01:15.642 --> 00:01:17.744 Well, each of those take about two hours, 00:01:17.811 --> 00:01:20.681 and if you add a BBL on, that could be another hour. 00:01:21.415 --> 00:01:24.484 The answer is 4-6 hours, I would say, generally speaking, 00:01:24.618 --> 00:01:25.886 if you're doing it, 00:01:26.053 --> 00:01:27.988 with all the advanced maneuvers I talked about, 00:01:28.055 --> 00:01:32.290 and doing it carefully and really taking your time with the liposuction. 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:35.562 The recovery is a little more intensive if you've had 00:01:35.629 --> 00:01:36.630 a combination of surgeries. 00:01:36.697 --> 00:01:38.098 If you're having 2-4 surgeries, 00:01:38.265 --> 00:01:41.101 that's a little more recovery overall than one. 00:01:41.602 --> 00:01:44.671 I tend to find that my patients will tell me that one of the surgeries 00:01:44.738 --> 00:01:46.673 usually overrides all the others. 00:01:47.374 --> 00:01:49.042 If I'm doing a lipo and a tummy tuck, 00:01:49.176 --> 00:01:55.130 that usually is like the bigger recovery more than a breast rejuvenation surgery. 00:01:55.382 --> 00:01:58.418 I think the general answer in the plastic surgery community 00:01:58.485 --> 00:02:02.970 for how long do you wait after, to have a mommy makeover is nine months, 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:05.459 and that's usually it's gotta be after breastfeeding's done, 00:02:05.526 --> 00:02:08.695 so it's usually 6-9 months after breastfeeding is stopped, 00:02:08.762 --> 00:02:10.230 not just pregnancy. 00:02:11.164 --> 00:02:12.199 That's because you want... 00:02:12.266 --> 00:02:15.369 The breasts take time to shrink down from being engorged 00:02:15.435 --> 00:02:17.671 even if you don't breastfeed that long. 00:02:18.539 --> 00:02:20.374 Three months is certainly not long enough. 00:02:20.574 --> 00:02:22.910 Six months is a little short still. 00:02:23.744 --> 00:02:26.650 The best answer is you don't want to try to hit a moving target 00:02:26.720 --> 00:02:27.814 when you do plastic surgery. 00:02:27.881 --> 00:02:32.286 It's a big investment, and you don't need to rush it.