Mommy Makeover: Stories

I am a 37 y/o mom of 2 girls. I was always overweight growing up and lost 60lbs when I was a freshman in college. I kept that off until I got pregnant with my first daughter....I think I gained I have scheduled a mommy makeover for November 24th. I will be having a full tummy tuck, smart lipo on the flanks, inner and outer thighs, and a breast lift augmentation with silicone implants.

I have posted one "before" picture and will post more soon.

After the birth of my second daughter, I lost 70 Lbs and now have a lot of sagging belly fat and my boobs like like fried eggs hanging on a nail....I have been waiting for this for a year!

Updated on Sep 25, 2010:

Please check back after November 24!! Any advice before my procedure would be awesome!!

I feel like I should organize this better: After my second daughter, I topped the scales at 225lbs and wore a size 18/20. For the last 2 years I have worked my butt off (literally) to lose weight and get healthy. I quit smoking and lost 75lbs. I am now 148lbs and wear a size 8 or 10. However, my belly bulge and booby droop keep me from feeling like all this work has paid off. I have this permanent "floaty ring" around my waist that needs to go away. I am going to make a video dairy also....so check back for updates!!!

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Ok, so call me crazy....but I started getting paranoid about having my face up. I live in a small town, and well...you know how that goes. I just don't want all my lovely mushiness, my fried eggs, my fluffy pillows of love for the whole town to see. So...... I would like to know if anyone else here is having a hard time telling your family. I told my mom, but only because I knew I was going to need her help. She would never come out and say that she doesn't approve, I just know her mannerisms, her tone. I am not necessarily seeking her approval, but I was hoping she would be more excited for me.

Four weeks from today my life will be permantely changed, hopefully for the better. Since I made the decision to do this, I think about it everyday, not all day, but almost :) I am keeping a very postive outlook but cant help but think "what if". What if I come out disfigured? What if they send me in the wrong room and confuse me with someone else and I come out a man! Will I have to change my name to John? What if I don't wake up. That's the big one...what if. I am so ready for it to be over. I should have booked it like a week after I decided to do this!! Four weeks.

I am just a little over 1 week from my surgery with my new PS. I am anxious, but at peace with the decision to change PS. I am just ready to be done and back at home. As long as I know I made it through, I can deal with the rest. I will start my new "review" this week.

So apparantly I can't start a new review...so I will just have to expand on this one. New Doc DR. Christopher Chase.
I took measurements the other day :
Waist 33in
Hip 40 (hello fatty)
Thigh 36
Bust/Chest 38 1/2

Added "before" weight loss pic

Post Op: November 25. dAY 1

So my doc called today...I saw I wrote that down there but i do believe I was pretty heavily medicated and frankly couldn't see strait. So he said I could go ahead and take a shower...so I did...it was awesome...maybe even orgasmic....but not quite.

Ok, the low down. The first day is a bitch..pain is pretty bad, once you find a comfortable position...just doze away. Getting up was the next challange. Peeing took my like half an hour...I made it through the entire People magazine before I got that one little trinkle down. Bigbumper talked about forgetting to take her panties off....well I have dont that TWICE now. So maybe I will just borrow my toddlers pull up and forget about going to the big girl potty.

Otherwise, things are ok...check back with ya later.

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Once again I want to mention that Dr. C is my doctor, not dr. Nease. I am sure dr. Ndoes a great job...but he is not the one chose.

Ok..I totally had to share this with y'all. MyBF comes to pick me up and get me out of the house (about to go nuts) so we go to Target (I live like 2miles away)....besides the point. Well I figure I will get one of those motorized carts and cruise around in it. (I will post a pic she took cuz the whole thing was hilarious.) so we are in the shoe section and I obviously don't have a hover round liscence and ram head on into a rack...the jolt of the hit didn't feel great but the horrid laughter that I couldn't keep in was torture. I just keep sounding like a donkey..."ha...shhh...ha...shhh" with a " dontmakemelaugh...." the store boy's face peeking around the corner was priceless"

I will call this adventure "Rollin In My 5.0"

1 week PO
I got my drains out today!!!! It was funny because I was so totally stressed about it, but was MORE than ready to have those suckers out. However, as Dr. C was answering questions for me the nurse removed them without me even knowing it!! It was gooey, which is gross, and now I have 2 holes the size of tic-tacs down there but nothing attached! At least if a whole lot of oozing occurs i will just shove a mint flavored tic tac in there....mint has healing powers, right?

My energy level is great. I start back to work in a week but honestly feel I could probably go back on Monday, but hey, why not take the extra day and a half. The only real pain right now is the lipo areas which are very bruised and very sore. I can stand up good with my garment on but without it I feel weird and kind of insecure. I definitely can't stand up strait yet without it.

The breast look great, he was pleased. The nurse showed me how to massage them. I was told to put neosporin on any scabbing or wounds at this point. When the steri strips start to come off he said just let them come off and put ointment on them. When there is no longer any scabbing then i can start the Scar Guard and massage. I will post a video and up to date pics......

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2 Weeks PO
Well I started back to work today. I only scheduled myself for 1/2 a day to start. Full days begin tomorrow.
I arrive at work at 8 and by 10 I was toast...I really think I was just having a bad day. I ran a low grade fever of about 99.5 and noticed more spasms in my upper back around my shoulders...I guess I am haunching more than I thought.

I couldnt put my finger on it, yesterday I was out Christmas shopping for most the day. I did ok. Like I said, I think I was just having an off day and was kinda nervous about going back. Everyone was so awesome though...but OMG, the xmas food....working in healthcare is a bitch when it comes to the food at Christmas time. I pinched here and there. Plus I forgot to eat breakfast this morning, and my kids were horrid...so we had a bad start to the day.
I went to my 2 week PO and my Mons has been very puffy, he decided to drain fluid from it so I then enjoyed a numbing shot in my private area....nothing like a needle in your muffin to end a kick ass day.

However, I do feel better after that, and he gave me more valium for the spasms. So all in all, 2 weeks...1st day back, needle in muffin, refill of valium. Not bad.

6 Weeks PO
I feel fantastic. Saw my PS today and he is so pleased with my results that he is gonna use me for the website and the "books"!!!

I was cleared to resume all normal activity except ab work. He said he doesn't even like ab work to be done at all in the first year. Yeah.
My energy level is still rockin, and probably thru the roof now that I am back to the gym full time. God be with my friends and family....they have yet to experience the new and improved Jen 5.0

I haven't had to deal with too much with any negativity. I pretty much stay away from people I think may act that way, or if they do, I just don't give them the time of day.
I refuse to let petty people steal my sunshine. It has been raining my whole life, and now it's my turn to shine....shit, that sounds so sappy, like a movie or something.

Anyhoo, the swelling is very very minimal these days, which is AWESOME, although I still get some twinges, like spasms here and there. I can literally feel them, like knots. PS said that is when my body is telling me to back off. So I do.

I really haven't lost a lot of weight (5lbs), and haven't really decreased a whole lot in pant size. I still wear an 8 only now they fit really really good, and 10s are definitely too big. Maybe now that I am back to my full workouts I can drop a few pounds. But all in all I am so happy with the results and continue to see better results as more time passes

6 Weeks PO
I feel fantastic. Saw my PS today and he is so pleased with my results that he is gonna use me for the website and the "books"!!!

I was cleared to resume all normal activity except ab work. He said he doesn't even like ab work to be done at all in the first year. Yeah.

My energy level is still rockin, and probably thru the roof now that I am back to the gym full time. God be with my friends and family....they have yet to experience the new and improved Jen 5.0

I haven't had to deal with too much with any negativity. I pretty much stay away from people I think may act that way, or if they do, I just don't give them the time of day.

I refuse to let petty people steal my sunshine. It has been raining my whole life, and now it's my turn to shine....shit, that sounds so sappy, like a movie or something.

Anyhoo, the swelling is very very minimal these days, which is AWESOME, although I still get some twinges, like spasms here and there. I can literally feel them, like knots. PS said that is when my body is telling me to back off. So I do.

I really haven't lost a lot of weight (5lbs), and haven't really decreased a whole lot in pant size. I still wear an 8 only now they fit really really good, and 10s are definitely too big. Maybe now that I am back to my full workouts I can drop a few pounds. But all in all I am so happy with the results and continue to see better results as more time passes

I have been back at the gym full time for a couple weeks. I have been diligent about my workouts and my food intake. I added more protein to my diet and try to eat small meals everty 3 hours or so. I have only lost a couple pounds since my surgery and am getting very frusturated with that. The BMI index still puts me in a "overweight" category, which ticks me off, yet I am in my size 8s and I notice them loosening up a bit.

I started some new classes at the YMCA...Zumba and Turbo Kick. Wow....Zumba is awesome if I can get coordianted and not feel groovaly challenged. Turbo kick works your core more than you would think...great workout but I am definitely not as flexible as I used to be. Swelling is still there occasionally and I still have muscle spasms when i over do it.

1 year