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What Are Some Mommy Makeover Options That Don't Involve a Knife?
asked 7 months ago by anon
Latest answer by Rondi Kathleen Walker, MD
Question viewed 332 times
Tags: age 35-44, stomach, female, belly fat, flatten, loose skin, non invasive, non surgical, perky, post-pregnancy
Surely there are great ways to look better (and also feel better) without surgery after having kids and experiencing a less perky shape?
17 answers to What Are Some Mommy Makeover Options That Don't Involve a Knife?
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Nonsurgical options for Mommy Makeover
The best option before even considering surgery is diet and exercise. Occaisionally, lax abdominal skin and breast will not contract and then surgery is the most viable option.
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Looking and feeling good after pregnancy is complicated
It always amazes me that any of our bodies can withstand the challenges of pregnancy and childbirth. Amazingly our bodies typically respond well to a consistently healthy diet and daily exercise that involves strength and conditioning. I would recommend that prior to entertaining any surgical options. Unfortunately sometimes surgery is the only way to restore your pre pregnancy body.
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Mommy makeover without surgery
Hello,
You cannot go wrong with diet and excercise. You may need to employ a trainer to have him/her guide you to an ideal diet and muscle building/fat burning regimen.
From the plastic surgery standpoint the following may also assist you with non surgical body contouring:
Ulthera
Zeltiq
They are both non invasive and do have measurable results, although not nearly as much as surgery.
All the best,
Dr Repta
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Non-invasive mommy makeover options
Mommy make-overs involve improving the abdomen and breast after pregnancy. Certainly, exercise and diet can help, but if you have excessive skin and laxity of the abdomen muscles and breasts, the only option to tighten the muscles and skin and lift the breasts is surgery.
Donna Rich, MD
Houston Plastic Surgeon
Houston Plastic Surgeon
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Non-surgical Mommy Makeover
Diet, exercise and strength training are the best thing to do with or without having surgery. Get a personal trainer to help get you on the right track. Yoga and pilates are great too. There are some "laser" technologies that might tighten the skin a little but I caution you not to expect too much.
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Mommy makeover surgery does what other things don't
The mommy makeover typically involves a tummy tuck and breast surgery, and in both instances they do what you can't accomplish on your own with diet and exercise or noninvasive treatments. Be especially wary of liposuction procedures that sound minimally invasive and promise to tighten skin with lasers or ultrasound; liposuction is surgery but not an alternative to a tummy tuck where there is skin laxity.
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Cool Sculpting
If you are absolutely against surgery you may have no alternatives to help with your breasts, however you may see nice results in fat reduction to your abdomen and back with Cool Sculpting. Keep in mind this procedure helps reduce pocket areas of fat but will not help at all with loose skin.
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Mommy Make over
If you are looking for non surgical options to address your breast or abdomen...there are very few. If you have some local areas of fat you might want to look into Zerona, however, I am not at all convinced that it is effective. Of course, diet and excercise are very important and can be very helpful.
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Mommy Makeover Without Surgery
Unfortunately, there is no reliable way to improve the shape and appearance of post-pregnancy breasts or abdomen without surgery. Diet and exercise will help, but excess skin or stretch marks will not go away no matter how much you exercise.
As long as you are happy with your shape then surgery can be avoided, otherwise there is no proven alternative.
Best of luck,
Vincent Marin, MD
San Diego Plastic Surgeon
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Alternatives to mommy makeover
If you truly have significant abdominal skin excess and laxity, as well as real droopiness of the breasts, surgery (tummy tuck and breast lift) is the only option to tighten the tummy and lift the breasts. Of course,a good diet and exercise program are important, and these can help you stay your most healthy and fit. Spanx and a good bra could make you look good, but when you are in clothes.
Arnold S. Breitbart, MD
Long Island Plastic Surgeon
Long Island Plastic Surgeon
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Enjoy life
Absulutely there is LIFE after having children. Start doing the thing you always wanted but did not have the time, spend a weekend in a nice hotel with your husband, Buy a nice dress and enjoy your body.Start an excercise program, and enjoy life as it comes day by day as Steve Jobs Said
Samir Shureih, MD
Baltimore Plastic Surgeon
Baltimore Plastic Surgeon
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Conservative Mommy Makeover
The term "Mommy Makeover" is relatively new. It evolved from the reality plastic surgery shows like Extreme Makeover. It refers to restoring your body to its pre pregnancy condition after childbirth. It is usually reserved for the plastic surgeries that address abdomen and breast changes post partum. There are obviously other ways to get your body into good condition after child birth. Regular aerobic exrecise and weight control will make a difference...
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Diet and Exercise
The best non-surgical option is a good diet and exercise program. However, it has its limitations. The breast will not be lifted if needed, and the breast volume loss will not change and possible become a little worse with the weight loss. The loose abdomen will only tighten to a certain degree with core training but can be improved. The laxity of the skin will not be greatly altered. The areas that we commonly liposuction can be improved by weight loss.
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What Are Some Mommy Makeover Options That Don't Involve a Knife?
Surgery is NOT the answer to everything. But, which women may require surgery to restore their after-baby figures to their before baby condition would critically depend on what exactly are their unhappy with and would like to change.
Exercise and diet would increase stamina and lose weight but it will NOR repair stretched out, overhanging, stretch marks damaged skin. Nor will it flatten a post-baby pooch due to excess skin and stretched and split muscles. Nor will it fill and lift...
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Mommy makeovers
I agree completely with Dr. Pousti in that a diet and exercise program can do wonders to get your body back. If you remain unhappy with the breasts and abdomen, you will likely need surgery as all non-surgical options are marketed to sound great but in reality offer very little improvement.
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Mommy Makover Without Surgery
Thank you for the very interesting question. Yes there are non-surgical ways to “look better and also feel better”. Two ways that come to mind quickly are: diet and exercise regimens. A good diet and healthy exercise regimen tend to improve one's physical and mental well-being. For example, an exercise program that involves family and/or friends ( other moms?) may go a long way to “perk” up a mom's morale and self esteem. The...
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Try spanx.
Although diet and exercise are good, the only way to push breasts up or tighten the stomach is with elastic garments. Unfortunately, the knife is the way to go.
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