5th day Post Op for Mommy Make-Over - Arkansas

Last year, I worked my booty off on making the best of my $11 G's! So I hit the gym hard and now I am a proud mama of a rocking body! I get so many compliments that I hate admitting I had surgery because I feel like it takes away from how much hard work was put into my journey. I had to lose 50+ pounds first and then I had to tone what the Doc gave me. Here is a picture of me now!
I am sorry I never re-updated my status. IT WAS TOTALLY WORTH THE SURGERY!
Be Blessed!

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Hello All! I am doing AWESOME! Im only taking ibuprofen during the day and adding 1 oxycodone to it at night. I slept last night in the recliner and I am hoping to move to the couch tonight since my posture is more straight. Some tips on the first 5 days:
if you have a foam mattress for your bed (4in or so) take it off and lay it on your recliner. I in no way could get up by myself but I don't think I could any ways. That extra padding was so nice at night.
Have a heating pad. I dont know what I would of done without my heating pad. I dont know if it's my back in general from sitting so much that hurts or if its the lipo locations but either way it was handy.
In addition to that, get a fan! Not a box one, but a medium one bc that heating pad gets you hot plus all the support binders you have on.
For cleansing, buy extra small gauze boxes and ask for an extra roll of steri tape at the hopsital. They safety pin the pump on your stomach binder but it still slips and the tape holds it. Also, you have to clean your cord entries and one of mine kept bleeding so I had to pack it with gauze and tape it down.
I also recommend buying high rise undies to hold all your gauze in place. I luckily already had some from my last pregnancy I didn't use.
I think FInally, (For Extra) If you buy a Moo Moo to wear, 1 make it silky and 2 see if there is any with pockets. My mom bought me one that is cheetah print with flowers and it has two pockets! So I stopped taping and pinning my cords on my tummy through out the day and just stuck them in the pocket lol
Also--WALK WALK WALK. my dr said it'd help and I dont know why and what else it may do but it made me put out a lot more blood and Im gettting mine out tomorrow!!! Yay, Everytime I walked, I saw blood flowing so woot woot! I hope you guys enjoy seeing my day 5 pics!

Today is Tuesday, 4 days after surgery and I am feeling much better! I can't keep up with my children's needs and have to let my sister or their daddy, but I am able to clean at my own slow pace. My pose is more erect especially when sitting and I just feel better all together. The Downfalls Are: NO END RESULT YET (I hope at at least). M breasts right now are "Dollys" and my stomach looks the same but pull a lil tighter. He promised me and promised me again that my breast will drop and find their home in a few weeks. He also showed me where they were swollen and how hard they were compared to soft, healed ones (my nurse's lol) So I feel better hoping my breasts are giant in the next two weeks. As for the tummy, I've pumped blood good and he said he feels confident that Thursday I'll have them taken out. He lipo'd my hips (which you will see in the pics) but said there wasn't a whole lot there to take...but in my opinion that was one of my biggest problem area's so we will have to wait and see because right now, but stomach is very swelled and bruise and there's no telling what it might look like next week or the next. Hope you enjoy the pics!