Arch Miller, MD

You have an agenda for improvement that is aggressive. You should wait 6-9 months to allow your body to heal. Wait at least three months after last signs of lactation. Your skin will continue to change up to one year. If you plan on another child you should not have a tummy tuck. Enjoy your child, heal and make conservative plans with a board certified plastic surgeon

we all heal differently and at different rates. Our post op compliance with care also differs. Variables such as cigarette or marijuana use and caffeine use will alter healing. Therefore, all incisions will be different.incisions will secrete serum and some blood and can form scabs. Thus it is best to gently cleanse incisions. Although ice decreases swelling, it also decreases blood flow and can increase risk to healing. Dressings all depend on the surgeons experience .one must rely on that to maximize your results.

in all likelihood, you will get a nice reduction of your “pooch”, but the striae or stretch marks will probably remain or worsen in appearance. The striae are actually “tears”in your dermis that are irreversible. One can tighten them and improve visual effect.

If you have a real tummy tuck that takes skin, and the tattoo is within the incision line, of course it will change the tattoo. 

I suppose an "uplift" is what we call a mini facelift. the incision is at the tragus, and goes behind the ear. the normal healing period for those incisions is about two weeks. you can then safely use camouflage  makeup to obscure the incision lines. after one or two months you should not even have to use makeup.