30yrs, 4 Kids, 5'4", TT, Lipo, BA & BL. - Mountlake Terrace, WA

It's been awhile since I've updated. I've been working out every single day starting this month. Running, and strength training. I don't want my surgery to have been for nothing. I'm very pleased with how my body is looking. Scars are still a deep purple, but I can see how then seem a bit faded. Swelling post workouts has reduced significantly. I would work out before and have massive swelling in my belly. Not so much now. I also outdid my personal trainer in sit-ups. Internal stitching has done wonders! It took me doing more sit-ups than usual before even feeling the "burn" from working my abs out.

My breasts have, over night it seems, become very soft and jiggly. Still perky and bigger in size, but more natural feeling. The scar tissue from the incision is still easily felt though. The picture doesn't show their size well because I'm wearing a high impact sports bra which holds them in place VERY well. I don't bounce at all wearing that thing!
I have my last Dr. appt this next week and I can say that over all I am very happy.

Just for fun I tried on some clothes I wore before the surgery that I knew made me look like my eggo was Preggo.
Let's just say, Mama needs a new swim suit... My breasts are not easily contained! Lol

Swelling has gone down quite a bit. I'm also HAPPY, ELATED, and EXCITED to say that the killer burning pain in my pubic area has decreased significantly. I can't explain how much PAIN that frickin' nerve caused me. I was honestly worried about an entrapped nerve or something. I'm just glad that it's going away, although slowly. It's still there sometimes. For a while, if I laid on my back, it would slowly increase in pain until I couldn't take it any more and I would have to roll to my left or just get up. Laying on my left side always makes it disappear, while laying on my right would always immediately put me in pain. Odd little things like that.
Speaking of which, I sleep on my left side nightly now. I have for probably at least a week. I'm getting awesome sleep now. I also feel completely well enough to get up with my little guy at night. My husband and I switched sides so he could handle the baby at night. He doesn't wake often, and when he does wake up I just need to pat his back to get him back to sleep. Nothing big, but my husband has been doing all the hard work. God bless him, I married a good one. I'll be glad to get back to "my" side of the bed though.
I'm starting to become annoyed with my compression garment. But then I take it off for any amount of time and then feel like I want it back on. For example, today we decided to get out of the house. Cabin fever and all that. I felt like I would try not wearing the garment while there and man oh man. I was regretting it as soon as we left the house. I honestly felt like it was too much to not have it on. I wasn't in pain or even discomfort. It just felt like it took too much effort walking around without having it on.
That's the other thing. For a while, I couldn't just walk around the store. If we had to go for groceries or whatever, I absolutely had to have the little electric grandma cart to be able to get around the store. Socially speaking, people really don't like young, healthy looking adults riding in those. I couldn't believe the dirty looks I got. This one time I had decided to just walk around the store. A few minutes into my shopping, my abdomen swiftly told me I had made a stupid decision. I decided to go back for the cart, passing this woman on the way. I'm not limping. I'm not even really hunched over, but my abdomen is screaming at me so I definitely need the cart. The look she gave me as I drove the cart back by made me feel like I needed to stop the cart, stand up and show her my wounds as proof. I felt the daggers. The stare I got from her was almost unbearable.

Beyond all that.

The marble they put in my belly button is still there. I noticed today that when I took it out to shower, my belly button gets more horizontal and less "round". Not that I'm concerned but without the marble in, I think that's just how it's going to be. I wonder how long I'll have to keep it in for.
I got measured at VS today and they have me at a 34DDD. From what my DR office has said, VS runs a bit small. So I'm think I'm probably more a DD size. If that's true, then I'm up a couple of cup sizes. I'm actually pretty happy with where I'm at. I guess we shall see what I look like in a year.

My next appointment is on the 21st. Can't wait! I love their office staff.