Breast Lift and Augmentation - 350cc Silicon over the muscle - Palm Desert, CA

I am a 30 year old mother of three, ages 9, 6, and 2. I am 5'8 and 135 pounds. I wear a 34C but I do not fill it up at all, a 34B causes the excess skin to overflow though. My breasts have always had a sag to them. When I was 20 I went for a consult for breast augmentation hoping to fix the problem (I had been trying to get pregnant for 2 years at that time, assumed it was not going to happen and decided to move on with my life). Surprise, surprise, I found out I was pregnant right after that consult. Three pregnancies where I breastfed for 13, 13, and 15 months, where my breasts swelled to an incredible 36F every time, left my breast hanging low and looking down :) Added to that, a month before my youngest was born my husband of 10 years walked out on us. The emotional strain also dropped my weight by an extra 30 pounds. Talk about depleting breast tissue!

So this year I finally met my savings goal and went for my consults. I found a doctor, and had initially set to have a mommy makeover with a full tummy tuck as well. The weekend before my pre-op (last weekend) I broke down and decided I could not bring myself to spend that amount of money on a surgery right now. So, I weighed the options and decided that the breast lift/augmentation would the be the surgery I went forward with.

Tuesday I went to my pre-op to finalize my size choice and go over all pre-surgery instruction. I had tried both the 300cc and 400cc sizers during the consult, I knew for sure 400cc was too big for me. At home I played with rice sizers in a 350cc and decided I liked that. After trying on the 300cc and 350cc at the pre-op, and talking with the doctor, I decided on the 350cc implant.

So on June 13th I will be going under for a full lift, my doctor is hoping to get away with a lollipop lift but prepared me for a small anchor incision if need-be, with a 350cc implant. I cannot wait to see my result!!!

Two weeks from now I will be waking up in recovery with new boobs! I am so excited to get this done and be on the mend and enjoying my more youthful (and appropriate to my age!) boobs. While I am still bummed about not getting to go forward with the tummy tuck as well, I feel like the recovery will be much smoother with just the lift/augmentation and that is a good thing. I am trying to get things all in order now so that I can have the least amount of stress possible afterward. Right now I am working on cleaning/organizing/purging. I work for the school district so my job gives me a summer break, normally I use this time to catch up on all this stuff around the house so I am trying to get some done now since that will not be possible this summer. The list is long though and I know I will not be able to get to it all in two weeks. Outside of that I am doing meal planning, snack gathering, and supply gathering. I like to feel prepared, it calms my nerves. I have also made a better attempt at exercising daily to boost my system in preparation for the downtime I will be experiencing soon.

I plan on taking new before pictures, my previous ones included the tummy area and that will not be changing anymore. This week I am on my period, so the boobs are as full as they ever are at the moment and I want to wait until that goes away so I get a true before/after comparison. Perhaps next week I will get those up. I have had a hard time finding good comparison pictures for someone my age with the severity of the drooping I experienced so I want to make sure I get up a good amount for anyone else experiencing the same.

A couple of before pictures. As you can see, I have a lot of sag and not much tissue left. I am pretty much flat until you get below the breast crease, and that is where all my tissue currently resides. I cannot wait to fix this! I also cannot wait for my areola to be a normal size. I swear, just reducing that should be enough of a lift! One week until surgery and I am extremely excited. I have had sagging breasts pretty much since they developed and I cannot wait to know what it feels like to have them perky :)