Can I have a baby after a full body lift? (Photo)

Thank you for your question regarding the best treatment option for your thighs. After carefully examining your pictures and considering your age, I concur that a thigh lift seems to be the most suitable choice.

Your photos indicate a significant presence of excess skin with poor recoil potential, which suggests that liposuction alone might not yield the desired results. In fact, liposuction could potentially exacerbate the appearance of loose skin, as the skin is unlikely to "shrink wrap" effectively around the newly contoured legs.
Therefore, a thigh lift, rather than liposuction, is recommended. Thigh lift surgery comes in various forms, including crescent, modified longitudinal, vertical, and lateral thigh lifts. Given your specific case, where there is excess skin and fat extending to the knee, an incision running from the groin to the knee would be advisable. This approach is likely to provide the most comprehensive and satisfactory outcome.
Opting for a more limited incision, such as a crescent lift high in the groin, might leave you with residual loose skin around the knee, which wouldn't achieve the best possible results.
For a thorough evaluation and to ensure optimal results, please consult with an experienced, board-certified plastic surgeon who specializes in body contouring procedures.
Sincerely,
Dr. Katzen

Thanks so much for the opportunity to answer this question. Having a child after body lift surgery and tummy tuck has been done. I am not aware of any reports of small children.Timing is important and having a baby after body contouring surgery, may change your figure to the point that you will need another body contouring procedure to tighten things back up after childbirth. This is why lots of people wait until they're completely done having kids before major body surgery.I suggest you discuss your plans with an appropriately certified plastic surgeon. Best wishes, Dr. ALDO :)

hi!! You can have a body lift with no problems to your next pregnancy. Stitching and muscle repair will give up with babys growing. Eventually you will have stretch marks and more excess skin. We have done numerous body lifts and patients eventually get pregnant. Neither have had problems.  Thank you!! Dr C. 

Hi. Yes, you can have a baby after a body lift, and there is no reason for there to be any problem with this. One thing you should consider though, is that your skin may stretch after the pregnancy, and you may lose some of the contour improvements the bodylift achieved, and may need another surgery.
Regards, Dr Steve Merten, Sydney

Hi, thanks for sharing your concern and photos with us!
First I want to congratulate you for making this important decision. Deciding to get an aesthetic procedure to change your body and get a new life style is a big step!

Looking at your photos I might say that you´ll be a great candidate to get an entire back, waist and flanks liposuction, with BBL, and tummy tuck, this is because all the extra skin located in this areas plus your abdominal muscle needs to be repaired. Before all this, of course, you need to get a complete medical evaluation and laboratory exams to check everything is fine. For us your safety, always, is going to be first.

Have a great day!

Dr. JPG

Thank you for your question, Carameline. Body lift surgeries do not have any contraindications for having children after they are performed.
The patient can choose whether to perform body lift surgeries before or after having children. My recommendation in your case since you still do not have any children is to perform a liposuction in the abdomen area to remove accumulated fat, and after having children you can undergo a tummy tuck procedure to eliminate the skin surplus resulting from your pregnancy.

Congratulations on your impressive and sustained weight loss!Safe pregnancies and healthy babies can be achieved after body contouring procedures. The tissues of your body have a tremendous capacity to stretch and accomodate the needs of pregnancy. The ability of the body to rebound is the issue. You may note, after pregnancy, that you lose the results of your body contouring procedures from having skin and other tissues stretch out and not rebound afterwards. Sometimes this leads to future procedures  being necessary to get you back to where you were. Many patients choose to forego abdominal contouring procedures until after having children to try to avoid the possibility of repeat procedures in the future. There is no right or wrong answer, and the positives and negatives must be weighed against how much the area bothers you. Please take the time to meet with a highly qualified, board certified plastic surgeon to discuss your unique concerns and needs as well as reviewing the particular risks and benefits of recommended procedures that will help you achieve your goals!Best wishes in finding the path that is right for you!

 Hello Carameline, 
The health and size of your baby should be just fine after a full body lift. The real problem here is that you will lose the results of your body lift, which is in part an abdominoplasty. Even after surgery and tightening your abdominal wall it will stretch as the baby grows very slowly as well as your skin. So I would wait until you are done having children and then fix your abdomen/hips. You'll get a long term result that will last and you won't waste your money!!!
Warm wishes
Rebecca Jackson M.D.

Hi - thank you for your photo & congratulations on achieving a massive goal.It is most certainly possible to have a pregnancy after a bodylift.  The problem, though, is that alot of the skin that has been tightened will then be restretched, as will your muscles.My advise would be to complete your family prior to any surgery & then you will be able to enjoy the results long term, without the possibility of needing to have further surgery in the future.All the bestKim

Although it is certainly safe to become pregnant after a lower body lift, it would be ideal to schedule this procedure sometime after your last pregnancy. A lower body lift includes a full Abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) and some of this work may be undone by a pregnancy. For example, pregnancy may result in a recurrence of your rectus diastasis, the formation of stretch marks or the development of abdominal skin laxity.