Fat Transfer to the Breasts with Dr. Mendieta... So Far Worth All the Pain! - Miami, FL

Hi realself crowd! I decided to do my duty and post my experience here since this website has been my very useful source of information on all things PS, and there isn't much on BA with fat transfer, so I'm sure this will help somebody out there. I had my procedure on 12/2/13, just one week after my consultation with Dr. M. I knew I had to jump on it or the chicken in me will talk me right out of it. I am 29, 11 mos. post partum, 5'7" and hovering around the 150lbs mark right before surgery. Having the right amount of fat to spare was a concern for the surgeon since even at 150 I am very muscular (not really curvy, more the jock girl type, until now that is haha!) but I was glad he didn't send me to fat camp, loosing and gaining is equally hard for me and that would have pushed my sx very far, we made do with what I had, it just meant finding more areas to lipo. I ended up having liposuction to flanks, whole abdomen, inner thighs, and back. I will update on the total amount harvested but I do know that 600 cc went into each breast. It is soon to tell but the results look Aaaaaahhhmazing and the contouring done by Dr. M with the lipo got rid of every stubborn fat pocket I ever had, even when I weighed 125 lbs pre baby. My breasts didn't suffer much the pregnancy/breastfeeding thing, they were super small for my frame and deflated looking my whole life. In my consultation with another doc (Dr. Khouri) for this same proc. I found out they were underdeveloped due to excessive excercise during critical development years ( heed this teen athletes of the world lol) and also even though I did not have tubular deformity, the breast fold was very high, which combined with almost zero fatty tissue and breast tissue the size of a golf ball made my breast very unnapealiang (see before pics).
Surgery is, well, surgery. A royal pain in butt (boob in this case). I am local and went home about 2 hours post op, I had 2 stitches under my breasts, 3 along the bra line, 2 on the butt dimples, 1 in the tailbone, 2 on the gluteal fold (where thigh and butt cheek meet), two drain balls sticking out of my pubic area, and one short drain sticking out of my belly button (btw, mommies out there, one extra plus from this, at least with Dr. Mendieta is he reconstructs the navel, removing the :( sad face moon shape we get after baby). Overall, I felt like the Avengers kicked my a$$, but the rec room nurse, Valerie, was a total sweetie and did everything to get me back "to life". Right after sx my boobs looked like Dolly Parton, but thanks to time and lots of Arnica (our best friend) they look totally natural and barely hurt already, still slightly harder than normal, but it is only one week po.