It depends on whether you plan to have any more children in which case you should wait before a tummy tuck or rectus repair. Otherwise, six months after delivery should be sufficient.
You will get a variety ofanswers about how long to wait after childbirth before having a repair of diastasis recti. Most ethical plastic surgeons would feel that a patient wait a minimum of 3-6 months.Yourbody, including your abdomen is still changing.Youmay have not lost all of your pregnancy weight.Youcannot lift the baby postoperatively for weeks after a diastasis recti repair or a full tummy tuck. Thenumber of weeks depending on the extent of the procedure performed. Youwill need additional support at home to take of the baby as well as you.If you plan on future pregnancies, youshould wait to have surgery until you are done having children, since pregnancywill stretch out the skin and abdominal muscles again, usually undoing therepairs that were achieved with the diastasis repair or tummy tuck (abdominoplasty). I would suggest that you find a plasticsurgeon certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and ideally a memberof the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) that you trustand are comfortable with. You should discuss your concerns with that surgeon inperson.RobertSinger, MD FACSLaJolla, California