The Year of Me - Mommy Makeover, Full TT, BL/BA, Lipo

Let’s start with stats. I know for me and all my years on this fantastic site, I was always hard pressed to find women similar to my own build/shape/size/whatever. Perhaps they were out there and just didn’t list this info. For me and all my research, it was something I desperately craved, I wanted as many “apples to apples” comparisons as I could get. So here goes.
I’m 40, 5’ 5.5” (and yes that half inch is so very important) 188.2 lbs dry weight on the morning of my surgery. I’m also a mutt Caucasian but have more Italian ancestry than anything else so I have an olive skin tone. I can get pasty white in the winter but dark tan in the summer. I’m a mother of two beautiful girls, both whom I had later. My first at 32.5 and my second just weeks shy of 38. They did a number on my body. Rough pregnancies and even tougher deliveries, my first being an emergency cesarean after 17 hours of induced labor. So as for my body type preop, it was rough. I had gained weight that I was NEVER able to lose no matter what I tried. Doctor after doctor, Rx weight loss medications, diets, exercise, nothing helped. It’s like my body was just “stuck”. In addition to the weight, I had this enormous, distended abdomen. I looked 7 months pregnant. ALL THE TIME. Therefore, I sucked it in ALL THE TIME, which made me look more like 5 months pregnant. I had the distention up high under my breasts and of course the dreaded apron from my two cesareans. I loathed my body. And exercise became futile because aside from it giving me no results, it was physically uncomfortable. Sometimes painful. And my abdomen kept me from doing a majority of these things properly anyway. Despite all this, I would say I’m still a strong person. I have thick legs and bigger arms but there is tons of muscle hidden in there. I’m a machine when it comes to physical work and work circles around my much tinier girlfriends. But I needed help. I wanted to be pain free, comfortable in my skin, and yes-look as good on the outside as I felt on the inside. I’m 40, and I have an amazing husband, sweet kids, a ridiculous tribe of women who would and have done anything for me, and I have my health. I’m in a great place, I love life! Things I could only imagine when I was young and dumb but looked like a million bucks. I know this story is not unique.
So..enter my decision for a Mommy Makeover and Dr. Vath.

Here are some before photos. I’m not sure if some of these are getting cropped. I’m working via the app.

Photos showing how large my breasts are. Preop I was a 38/40 DD. I still had a lot of my own tissue and was told that would make for a beautiful outcome in my BL. I still chose very small implants, 200 cc’s, to ensure I was left with the upper pole fullness I wanted. Overall, shape was more important to me than size. I’ve had large breasts my whole life and figured if they were still large but perky and pretty and full and simply “where” they should be, I’d be over the moon. So far, so good!