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I know I said I didn't want to post photos but I will because so many people are private messaging me and I did not realize that there is no option to send photos in realself's internal messenger. So to save time, I am posting my BEFORE and AFTER photos. The difference speaks for itself. I no longer have sad breasts.
PLEASE NOTE: I am only 5 weeks out so they are not done dropping, the side that looks slightly bigger is the one that my kids preferred so the skin is looser on that side, and the shiny stuff is scargelMD...which I use just as a precaution to keep myself scar free.
I will post update photos without the scar gel after I discontinue its use, in about 6 weeks.
PLEASE NOTE: I am only 5 weeks out so they are not done dropping, the side that looks slightly bigger is the one that my kids preferred so the skin is looser on that side, and the shiny stuff is scargelMD...which I use just as a precaution to keep myself scar free.
I will post update photos without the scar gel after I discontinue its use, in about 6 weeks.
I don't have much time to write this so forgive me...
I don't have much time to write this so forgive me for my brevity. I just figured that I learned so much from people posting on this site -- and that I should give back.
I was a lucky person before I had children -- I LOVED my body and every part of it that I did not love so much, I knew how to manipulate and change very quickly by working out. Therefore, I walked around all of the time with a body I thought to be ideal. I had DD breasts naturally, a small waist, and very good proportions.
At 26, I had my first child. I nursed him for a year. I should have known I would suffer dramatic changes. My breasts were a size G during pregnancy and grew even bigger while I was nursing. I think I even lactated before 30 weeks of pregnancy-- I was just bursting at the seams. Anyhow, after I weaned my son, it looked as if someone had sucked all of the tissue out of my breasts overnight.
I tried to get over it, tried to train my way out of it in the gym when I realized I couldn't get over it, and eventually I settled on the idea of buying my body back through cosmetic surgery. When I saw my first surgeon for a consult, we determined that I was a saggy B cup. He told me I would need a lift and implants but that I needed to wait until I was done having kids.
I had another child at 27, nursed him another full year. During this time I also got back into fitness modeling (which I had done in my early 20's). But I had a perfect figure again because I WAS NURSING so my breasts were back at a DD to balance me out. When I weaned this son, I was basically an A cup.
I saw Dr. Tattelbaum about 2 months after I weaned. We discussed a peri-areolar lift and an augmentation. I am 5'6" and weigh 130 and am pretty lean. He suggested 420 cc high profile silicone, under the muscle.
He also said that silicone tends to look about 10% smaller when placed under the muscle and that about 70% of the time, women wish they had gone bigger.
After contemplating that, I went to numerous sizings and stalked his amazing assistant, Pei. She is very efficient and gets back to patients right away, unlike my experience with the first surgeon I saw -- who acted like business should just be knocking down his door. I ended up going with 475cc high profile silicone.
The offices are clean, surgery was done at a surgical center on-site in the Rockville office, and everything ran smoothly.
I am 5 weeks out now and have had no issues. They have dropped amazingly, I had no pain past the first few days, Dr. T follows up personally....and most importantly, I HAVE MY BODY BACK!!!! Actually, it's better because fake breasts are always perky.
Dr. T said I still have a little droop but that he thought that was a worthy price to pay for having NO SCARS. I really don't have scarring at all. And the droop he notices, I do not! I was a DD my whole life so big real breasts don't exactly stand at attention, even when you are 18 years old.
Mine stand now! This surgery was so worth it. It won't make you a happier, more fulfilled person (unless you are very shallow ;) BUT if you are like me and you take care of yourself and don't accept mediocrity if you can help it, stop stressing about the pro's and con's list and JUST DO IT.
And if you are in the DC, MD or VA area (the DMV), don't bother with anyone but Dr. Tattelbaum. He is very straightforward, has a great bedside manner, and takes time with you even if this is the 400th time you have come in.
You can message me for photos but I am not the type to just put them on this site.
I was a lucky person before I had children -- I LOVED my body and every part of it that I did not love so much, I knew how to manipulate and change very quickly by working out. Therefore, I walked around all of the time with a body I thought to be ideal. I had DD breasts naturally, a small waist, and very good proportions.
At 26, I had my first child. I nursed him for a year. I should have known I would suffer dramatic changes. My breasts were a size G during pregnancy and grew even bigger while I was nursing. I think I even lactated before 30 weeks of pregnancy-- I was just bursting at the seams. Anyhow, after I weaned my son, it looked as if someone had sucked all of the tissue out of my breasts overnight.
I tried to get over it, tried to train my way out of it in the gym when I realized I couldn't get over it, and eventually I settled on the idea of buying my body back through cosmetic surgery. When I saw my first surgeon for a consult, we determined that I was a saggy B cup. He told me I would need a lift and implants but that I needed to wait until I was done having kids.
I had another child at 27, nursed him another full year. During this time I also got back into fitness modeling (which I had done in my early 20's). But I had a perfect figure again because I WAS NURSING so my breasts were back at a DD to balance me out. When I weaned this son, I was basically an A cup.
I saw Dr. Tattelbaum about 2 months after I weaned. We discussed a peri-areolar lift and an augmentation. I am 5'6" and weigh 130 and am pretty lean. He suggested 420 cc high profile silicone, under the muscle.
He also said that silicone tends to look about 10% smaller when placed under the muscle and that about 70% of the time, women wish they had gone bigger.
After contemplating that, I went to numerous sizings and stalked his amazing assistant, Pei. She is very efficient and gets back to patients right away, unlike my experience with the first surgeon I saw -- who acted like business should just be knocking down his door. I ended up going with 475cc high profile silicone.
The offices are clean, surgery was done at a surgical center on-site in the Rockville office, and everything ran smoothly.
I am 5 weeks out now and have had no issues. They have dropped amazingly, I had no pain past the first few days, Dr. T follows up personally....and most importantly, I HAVE MY BODY BACK!!!! Actually, it's better because fake breasts are always perky.
Dr. T said I still have a little droop but that he thought that was a worthy price to pay for having NO SCARS. I really don't have scarring at all. And the droop he notices, I do not! I was a DD my whole life so big real breasts don't exactly stand at attention, even when you are 18 years old.
Mine stand now! This surgery was so worth it. It won't make you a happier, more fulfilled person (unless you are very shallow ;) BUT if you are like me and you take care of yourself and don't accept mediocrity if you can help it, stop stressing about the pro's and con's list and JUST DO IT.
And if you are in the DC, MD or VA area (the DMV), don't bother with anyone but Dr. Tattelbaum. He is very straightforward, has a great bedside manner, and takes time with you even if this is the 400th time you have come in.
You can message me for photos but I am not the type to just put them on this site.
Provider Review
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
3203 Tower Oaks Blvd, Rockville, Maryland
He is amazing and so is his assistant, Pei. He explains things clearly, he understands what you want, he does not promise to make you perfect if you cannot in fact be made perfect. He tells it like it is and lets you make the final decision. His offices are very clean, as was the surgery center (downstairs from office!). And follow-up was immediate. I had a (peri) lift and augmentation and had minimal pain and NO visible scarring. I begged for a full lift but I am glad he convinced me out of it, after MANY appointments during which he never showed an ounce of annoyance with me.