How Will Surgery After Weight Loss Affect Surgery After Pregnancy?

I'm 18 and am getting a lapband soon and after I lose weight (goal 100 pounds). I will need plastic surgery to have a body I feel good about and like.

I want to have a kid or two in my late 20s. Will the results of previous Tummy Tuck and any other reshaping surgeries affect surgeries I'd have after pregnancy?

I have a small frame but have disgusting fat hanging off of me and plastic surgery is my only hope of feeling good about myself.

Asked 25 months ago by mmmmm in Washington

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Timing of post massive weight loss body contouring procedures taking pregnancy into consideration

I would discuss your pregnancy plans with your post bariatric body contouring surgeon., Some procedures may best be deferred until completion of childbirth while others will need to be repeated or revised. Your plastic surgeon can help you decide planning the timing of the numerous procedures that may be required.

Otto Joseph Placik, MD

Chicago Plastic Surgeon

ASAPS ASPS

A Tummy Tuck should BEST be done AFTER , NOT BEFORE Pregnancy

The reason why skin and fat hang off and tummy muscles remain stretched and flabby after weight loss is because the muscles remains where it was left and the skin is damaged and does NOT shrink to fit the new, smaller body scaffold and frame. In any body contouring surgery such as a tummy tuck, the abdominal wall is literally reconstructed and "taken-in" layer after layer. First, the loose, sideways located muscles are put back together. The extent to which this is done -... more

Peter A. Aldea, MD

Memphis Plastic Surgeon

ASPS

Will plastic surgery now affect the procedures I may want after pregnancy?

Hi there- It is possible that if you were to have a tummy tuck (for example) after losing a significant amount of weight, followed by pregnancy and children years later, that you will need to have further plastic surgery after your family is complete. This surgery may be a bit more involved because of the prior surgery and its resultant scar tissue, but would be possible for you. In a patient like yourself, given the fact that it sounds like it is going to be up to a decade before you... more