7 months post partum after having my surprise baby (after having my tummy tuck with MR) :)

7 months post partum- after TT with MR. No muscle damage- considerable skin damage, though its more discoloration of stretch marks, and not as much change in skin texture.

I thought I was done with kids! I got the most wonderful tummy tuck my Dr. John Aker and found myself preggers only 6 months later. My beautiful tummy!!!!! It was starting to look so amazing with ab definition, but our little Leo wanted to join the family. I gained 28 lbs, worked out during the whole pregnancy and tried to take care of myself. I didn't even look pregnant until around 6-7 months, and I didn't get as big as my previous boys. I had no muscle damage, but there was significant damage to my skin. It's definitely not as pretty as before, but it's not as bad as before the TT either. I just do not have elastic skin. My belly didn't even stretch out very far and still, even though my muscles were able to accommodate, the skin was not. Almost instantly after I pushed Leo out, my muscles were constricting back together, and I could flex immediately and could tell there was no damage...that's the best part.

Finally, after 7 months of using breastfeeding as an excuse to eat whatever I want, and after dropping no additional weight since I left the hospital, I am starting to get back into eating clean and right and exercising. My tummy at this point looks ok, but I have a solid 15-20 pounds to lose, which I think will help quite a bit. There is no real overhang when I bend over (if I'm flexing), but I'm wondering when I lose weight, if there will be since there will be nothing to pad that area. We'll see. At this point, I wouldn't say my TT was ruined at all, but in hindsight, I would have made sure hubby got the vasectomy prior to my surgery so that I would be able to enjoy the maximum benefits. (Hubby did get that snip snip a few months back, so no chance of recurrence :))

In conclusion, even though I had a baby after my TT and my baby was perfectly healthy and fat, and there were no complications to the pregnancy, and even though my tummy isn't totally ruined, if you can, I would definitely suggest taking all precautions prior to surgery so that you don't find yourself preggers just a few months later. I do know of some women that have perfect tummies right after, and some that have a totally ruined TT, so I guess I'm happy to find myself in the middle.

Hey everyone, I want to update that I am, quite surprisingly, 31 weeks pregnant now. We did not plan to have another baby, but the night at the Eldorado Hotel in Reno, NV over Christmas Break must have put us under some magical spell with it's neon lights, and now here we are. Everything is going well so far. My providers are a group of midwives, so they are very chill about the whole thing and haven't taken me off of my low risk pregger status. The pregnancy is harder in some ways because there is less room for the baby to move, so I have varicose veins, my bladder looks like it's falling out, it's hard to breathe and I have to sleep sitting up, but all of these are annoyances and nothing serious. My tummy is stretching and I am hoping that it will hold up. With my first, this is right where I got stretch marks, around the 8 month mark, so I'm nervous, but there's nothing I can do about it. I lube up with lotion and try to eat (somewhat) healthy, so besides that, I just have to see what my body does. My muscles are still intact though, which is a good sign. I will update as time goes on and post pics after the baby arrives. Some women have babies after TTs and are totally unaffected cosmetically, and some women have tummies that are ruined and need a full repair. We'll see where I fall as time goes on.