Plastics BEFORE pregnancy?

[Kaylee 13]

Hey everyone, I'm 20 years old, 5"7 and currently weigh 165 from 222 on surgery day! I'm not planning to have children in the near future, but I know I want to eventually. I am not at my goal weight yet either, but I can tell I am going to need some reconstructive surgeries after I reach that point. Has anyone had any experience with having reconstructive surgeries (mainly breast augmentation, lift, Tummy Tuck or torso lipo) and then getting pregnant afterwards? Were the surgeries worth it prior or is that something someone should hold off on if they are planning on having kids. Anyone have any advice?!

[brandy88 151]

I have already had kids but if was you would wait until after. Having kids was awful on my body stretch marks are up to boobs and when I get my Tummy Tuck hoping most of those go away lol. I would just hate to spend money and recovery time then have kids and not enjoy results anymore.

[Supersweetums 1,164]

As hard as it might be, I would wait until you are done having kids. You are young and not really that heavy, your skin will probably bounce back well, especially if you exercise. Pregnancy, as amazing and beautiful as it is, does horrid things to your body, especially your belly. Chances are you would have to have the work redone after having children. I would also be concerned with complications with the stretching of the skin, since they remove a lot of skin. Not sure, could be just in my head, but maybe worth researching.

[clk 3,519]

I agree with the previous posts. Pregnancy is hard on a body. I have a friend that had bypass, did plastics and never planned to get married or have kids. And then she did...and it was actually painful to have her body stretch and the damage afterward was terrible, just because they had already pulled the skin in that area so tight.

In the end, she wound up paying twice for the same thing to be done and had to get another full Tummy Tuck with muscle tightening after her second child to put everything back again.

Unless you experience a huge amount of sagging - something you are more likely to avoid since you weren't extremely heavy beforehand - I'd wait.

In addition, I'd say that between one year and two years post sleeve my body rebounded tremendously. My fat deposits moved back to my bottom and breasts, giving me back my hourglass figure. My stomach was still saggy, but I'm down more than 140 pounds from my highest ever weight and I've also had twins. But even that bounced back a lot. You might find that you can avoid some of the surgeries you think you want just by waiting for your skin to recover naturally. Certain areas on my body went from saggy to not needing any plastics at all.

Now I'm in the postpartum phase and trying to get back to goal and wait for my skin to readjust AGAIN so that I can finally pursue my plastics.

Good luck, and great job with the loss in such a short time,

~Cheri

[desert19 93]

We actually had a plastic surgeon at our last support group meeting and this same question came up. He said to wait until all pregnancies were done before having plastic surgery.

[GypsyQueen 198]

Hey everyone' date=' I'm 20 years old, 5"7 and currently weigh 165 from 222 on surgery day! I'm not planning to have children in the near future, but I know I want to eventually. I am not at my goal weight yet either, but I can tell I am going to need some reconstructive surgeries after I reach that point. Has anyone had any experience with having reconstructive surgeries (mainly breast augmentation, lift, Tummy Tuck or torso lipo) and then getting pregnant afterwards? Were the surgeries worth it prior or is that something someone should hold off on if they are planning on having kids. Anyone have any advice?![/quote']

You are so smart for asking!!