A woman wants to remain beautiful and have a perfect body under any circumstances, even after childbirth, when changes in her figure and skin condition are not particularly pleasing to her. Today, a special complex of plastic surgeries is gaining popularity in the world, designed for women after childbirth and having the conditional name Mommy makeover. This is a simultaneous operation, when the contours of the body are corrected at the same time and problems are eliminated in those areas that were affected by pregnancy - the chest, abdomen, back, hips and buttocks. Interest in such an integrated approach is growing not only from the side of women, but also from the point of view of plastic surgeons.
Why complex plastic surgery of the body after childbirth is gaining popularity
Today, many American and European clinics of aesthetic surgery offer women a set of Mommy makeover operations, which we translate approximately as “make mommy the same as before.” The essence of such a complex is that in the process of a simultaneous operation, abdominoplasty, mastopectomy, lipocorrection of problem areas in the pelvis, sides, hips, back - that is, those areas that usually lose their former beauty of forms due to natural changes in the body of a pregnant woman women.
Surgeons explain the growing interest in the Mommy makeover principle by the fact that significant progress in the field of surgical techniques, innovative methods of plastic surgery, and postoperative care for the patient makes it possible to perform complex simultaneous operations not only effectively, but also safely. At the same time, the shape is restored in several areas of the body at once, scars can be made minimally noticeable, and the recovery period after surgery for the patient passes with minimal discomfort and quickly enough.
In patients, the interest in the Mommy makeover principle is caused, first of all, by the ability to quickly restore prenatal body shapes, and sometimes improve them. Experts note that the popularity of simultaneous operations after childbirth is explained by the following features of modern society:
- women giving birth for the first time are often 35-45 years old;
- an increase in the number of multiple pregnancies;
- trend to increase the number of births;
- high level of social activity of women aged 40-50;
- fashion for a taut appearance.
According to the observations of surgeons, patients who underwent abdominoplasty and mammoplasty after the first birth and decided to give birth again, subjectively note after repeated birth that their body condition is much better than it was in the previous case.
What does a woman want after childbirth
Patients who want to achieve a perfect postpartum body through simultaneous surgery usually rely on the following corrective interventions:
- change in the shape and volume of the breast, correction of mastoptosis;
- abdominoplasty, plication of the muscles of the anterior abdominal wall;
- liposuction;
- lipomatosis of the flank zone, thighs;
- back lipomatosis;
- buttocks shape correction;
- labioplasty;
- correction of the scar after caesarean section, striae on the abdomen.
However, sometimes a woman is ready to limit herself to only the correction of her breasts, abdomen and hips, postponing the rest for a later period. It should be noted that it is precisely this volume - abdominoplasty, liposuction, mammoplasty - that is recommended today by aesthetic surgery clinics as an integrated approach within the framework of the Mommy makeover concept.
Possible risks of Mommy makeover after childbirth
Usually, a patient who decides to completely transform after giving birth according to the Mommy makeover principle can be difficult to convince that it is desirable for her health not to rush with global surgical interventions, but rather to correct the figure in stages. Experts note that in the postpartum period, a woman is not even afraid of the fact that after a simultaneous operation she will have swelling of almost the entire body, a large number of all kinds of drainage and clearly manifested scars on the body. Patients want to have everything at once, here and now, regardless of the possible risks.
However, it is advisable for the doctor to avoid such simultaneous operations that last more than 4.5 hours at a time. Perhaps the patient should be explained in detail that such operations are very difficult and are carried out under general anesthesia - for a long time the body does not just experience the action of considerable doses of drugs and not only undergoes interventions in the form of deeply inserted arterial and venous catheters and other instruments. For many hours, most of the vital functions are turned off and controlled by the anesthesiologist, while the body experiences severe trauma in the form of many incisions and various internal manipulations. At the same time, his strength is significantly weakened after childbirth, and therefore the risks of various postoperative complications greatly increase.
The patient should be offered the option of body correction in stages - say, six months or a year after breast augmentation or abdominoplasty, return to liposuction or correction of the hips and buttocks.
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons is calling on colleagues to pay special attention to postpartum patients who bring their best pre-pregnancy photos to the surgeon and desire the same result. Such attention should take into account the peculiar mental state of a woman in the early postpartum period, but at the same time, surgical interventions that could harm the patient's health should be avoided.
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