Mommy Makeover... Yes definitely worth it!!!!

After having two beautiful babies via c-section, my body never recovered! Six months after my son was born, I had to stop nursing him in order to have my reduction and lift before we moved overseas. That stopped my weight loss right away! Since then, my tummy has drooping skin and fat that I can't seem to get rid of with exercise and diet. I stuff my belly into my pants and never feel like I look beautiful because I have a bulge in the front. I used to be a lights on type of girl but now I don't want my husband to look at me. Thank God he loves me for who I am! As far as my breasts are concerned, since I have lost weight I lost all the fullness in the top portion of my breasts. In order to have the fullness again I am having saline implants put in via: Dual-Plane. I have residual breast tissue on the sides of my ribs from my original surgery. I will have this removed with liposuction as well as my flanks and back fat. I plan to post pics and blogs as soon as I get a chance.

Well, it's been four days since I had my surgeries, I'm feeling a little more normal. My Dr. Ended up keeping me overnight so I could get my pain under control. As far as the pain I feel, it's more like discomfort and mostly from my binder and drain sites. Getting up to walk is not very easy, my hips and lower back are sore and stiff from swelling and the lipo. I keep telling myself the each day it will be better. If I didn't have my mom here helping, I wouldn't have had this done! My husband likes to think he's helping but he's a little freaked out by the whole ordeal. I did manage to take before pics but haven't had time or the patience to post them yet. I won't be taking after pics until I see my dr on Tuesday. My binder keeps flipping up in the back due to my swelling and I can't get it to stay down. I have a lot of itching from the tape used to push my implants down. To anyone who has this done, I highly suggest getting a toilet bowl raiser, a walker, a shower stool, walkie talkies/ cell phones, adhesive remover pads, a recliner, someone who can help you out, the pain pump, and stool softeners. This is not a walk in the park, so to speak. I finally was able to have a tiny bowel movement tonight, that was also painful!
My Dr. And I decided to use the mentor gel smooth implants, he said to even out my breasts sizes he put in a 350cc and a 325 cc. With the lipo he estimated that he took out aprox. 4 lbs of fat from my flanks, hips, back and armpit fat. And my. Tummy tuck apron was about 2 lbs of skin and fat. I had him do the lowest incision he could for my tt, I like bathing suits that tie on the hips. What he ended up doing was going under my c section scars to do the incision. However he said by doing it that low he had to keep my old belly button scar above my monds.
I was under for a total of eight hours, it really has taken me until today to really come out of it. I feel exhausted! I find myself dozing off once in a while.
I didn't get a chance to post what all I was feeling the day before surgery. Realizing that I had very little time left, I ended up making a video of my final wishes and a video to my babies, family, and friends if something were to happen and I didn't wake up. That was hard for me to do, but I also wanted my babies and family to have closure if something happened. The emotions that run-through you are intense, especially being a mother. I went from scared, to excited, grossed out, to let's just get it done and over with. I think it's pretty normal for people to go through this thought process.
As the days go on from this point, I will be posting more thoughts and pictures. If anyone has any questions, please feel free to contact me, and I'll do my best to get back to you as soon as I can.
I did mark undecided if it was worth it, just because I haven't seen my results yet.

So today I had my first post op apt. I have been feeling pretty lousy up to this point. My skin felt like I needed to scratch it off, I would try not to scratch and embrace it knowing my body was trying to heal itself. Then the itching would turn into burning, it is awful! I started having panic attacks, I would get spasms down my legs up my back and in my abs. feeling like I couldn't catch my breath. The only thing that would somewhat stop this was getting up to walk. Then my lower back would cramp. My drains seemed to get clogged but thank God I wasn't draining very much. I was worried because the color of the drainage was darker on the left drain and not like the one on my right. So I mustered up the go to get to my post op visit. The drive there was rough, thank god my husband gave me an anti nausea tab. That helped a little. My Dr. Ended up taking out the drains. It felt a little weird but I tried not to pay attention. I only got a good look at my breasts. Everyone said they can't believe I look so good for only being a week out of surgery. I'll wait to look after I heel a little more. I get to take a shower tomorrow:).