Think of it as a short term investment - is it worth the expense?

Assume that having a baby will stretch your skin, add new pockets of fat, rotate the pelvic bones and stretch the muscles that make your body look like an hourglass. With these ideas in mind, liposuction will be as temporary as the time between the surgery and your pregnancy?

Also, after liposuction, there will be some time until the swelling goes down, so that you can enjoy the results.

Is the time between the surgery and when you get pregnant worth the costs, downtime and surgical risks? Only you know for sure! If it was me, I would save the money and spend the money on some baby furniture.

Best of luck! Robert M.Freund, MD, FACS

Gblu, There is no contra-indication to liposuction if you are planning on becoming pregnant in the next year or so.

The procedures that patients typically have after having a baby have more to do with correcting the loose skin and stretch marks. These usually involves an abdominoplasty. If you have liposuction a few years before your abdomioplasty, you may actually end up with an even better result.

So my advice would be to go for it.

I hope this is helpful.

Liposuction is good for treating localized bulges (typically in the thighs) and the results are very long lasting. You will put on weight during your pregnancy, but the bulges do not come back.

I have seen several women go through liposuction followed by pregnancy. Some lost all the weight after the pregnancy and some didn't. But the bulges did not come back in any of them.

Liposuction can be done almost at anytime. Liposuction is ideal inthe patient who has isolated areas of fat deposits that don't seem to go away through diet and exercise. I wouldn;t personally recommend liposuction if you are definiely planning to have a baby within the next year. However, I couldn;t tell you for sure if it wsa going to be 2,3,4 or more years before having a baby. That really is a personal choice. Certainly I would put off a tummy tuck until all pregnancies are completed.