More and more women are turning to post-childbirth cosmetic surgery. Nothing compares to the joy of motherhood, but the havoc you go through to get your body back into shape can bring tears to your eyes. That's why more moms are turning to combined surgical procedures, also called a Mommy Makeover, to recover their pre-pregnancy bodies.
Mommy Makeover, aka “The Mom Job”
These patients are young moms who are doing their best to take care of themselves, but their bodies have gone through some irreversible changes that they find discouraging.
What does childbirth do to your body?
Often, abdominal skin that becomes stretched during pregnancy doesn’t snap back after the baby is born. In addition, the rectus abdominis muscles, which run vertically, can separate and become lax, adding to the abdominal protrusion. The breasts often sag after delivery and/or breastfeeding because the skin covering them gets overstretched when breasts become engorged during pregnancy and nursing but remains lax after they return to their pre-pregnancy size. The result is less support for the breasts. Some women also lose breast volume as a result of pregnancy. (Nursing does not result in smaller breasts.)
Many mothers today are not “just” mothers — they have professional lives outside their personal life as mommy. And, they don’t want to look like the stereotypical mom. They want to feel better about their bodies, and that desire shouldn’t be dismissed or criticized, says sociologist Victoria Pitts-Taylor, Ph.D., author of "Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture"
