Mommy makeover is a misleading name. It sounds like a single procedure. It is not. It is a name given to a decision tree that every patient is faced with.
Most mommy makeovers are the same, except where they are customized. In general, they come 360 around the torso, with a tummy tuck and breast work. Breast work can be a reduction and lift, an augmentation, or an augmentation with a lift. We offer fat grafting to the buttock and people like to call that an extreme mommy makeover, but the truth is that it is often just a further decision-making addition.
Is It Actually Safe
As you will see in the next paragraph, we safely perform this combination of breast, abdominal, and buttock work several times a week. Often patients ask, are the results lasting? So long as the patient does not have more children after the mommy makeover, the results often remain the same. The liposuction performed with the tummy tuck removes most patients of five to ten pounds. You will notice the effect of the shape change more through that than through the change in your weight directly.
People come in asking us: is it safe to combine surgery, and what is included in my mommy makeover? What is even safer is your experience. We do this combination of surgeries three to four times a week. I would not be doing as many mommy makeovers if I had any reservation about the safety of combining them. All mommy makeovers typically run under six hours, with the patient in compression socks and sequential compression devices, walking that same day, following a blood thinner.
What Breast Surgery You Need Depends Entirely on Your Body
The breast has the biggest variety of factors. All we do is look at the patient and decide what we can do to make it better. Maybe you experienced volume loss after nursing, and we repair that with an implant. Some patients even combine a breast implant with fat transfer for extra volume. After you have decided on the fat transfer and or implant, then a conversation about the nipple becomes relevant depending on the change you experienced from nursing.
When planning a breast lift we examine both how much your breast droops and the shape that drooping has taken. Where your nipple ends up is perhaps our most prominent visual guide to an ideal outcome. The other option is a smaller circumareolar lift. Regardless of whether you pursue an extreme mommy makeover, a mini mommy makeover, or somewhere in between, most patients get a mesh that holds the breast result in place, GalaFLEX or DuraSorb.
In contrast to most cosmetic clinics, it is impossible for me to give a price on a mommy makeover when a patient first asks. I do not give a quote until your anatomy is sitting in front of me, so we can have a personalized discussion. My entire purpose as a Mayo Clinic fellowship-trained, double board-certified plastic surgeon is making sure patients feel confident in breast, abdomen, and buttock work without losing their natural looks or jeopardizing their bodies while pursuing a higher level of confidence.
Tummy Tuck Decisions
When making an inquiry into a tummy tuck, the options are generally pretty easy. It entirely boils down to how much skin is loose. Minimal laxity calls for a mini tummy tuck, roughly the length of a C-section incision. A higher amount of skin laxity signals a standard tummy tuck. If the skin rolls are pronounced, we are probably looking at an extended abdominoplasty, or a circumferential body lift when there is more extensive sagging around the back and buttock.
Typically, 360-degree liposuction across the torso pairs with our Renuvion J-Plasma tightening technique. Arms and inner thighs, when treated, get BodyTite for that same skin-tightening effect.
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Cross-links
- Full surgical guide on agulloplasticsurgery.com: “What Really Goes Into a Mommy Makeover, and Why It’s Safe as One Surgery” (canonical)
- Med spa side on swplasticsurgery.com: “Built Around You: How Southwest Plastic Surgery Customizes a Mommy Makeover” (link once live)