Good Bye to The 8 Month Pregnant Belly!

So here I am today 14 weeks post op. Dr. Tattelbaum took me from a far place. I have healed really well. My incision closed from day 1 and stayed closed! I attribute that to my wonderful and highly skilled surgeon. The early days I was plagued with the fear of falling and undoing my internal sutures. But when I received my post op report and learned that my doctor didn’t just do 2, but that I had a total of 4 layers of sutures in the diastasis recto alone! And 3 layers to close up my hernia I was more than relieved that I went with an experienced surgeon. I was a bit bloated when I took this picture but as you can see my overly stretched skin was tight over my 8 month pregnant-looking stomach is a huge improvement! Now I don’t have to worry that prospective partners think I’m expecting. So happy no complaints with all the pain it was well worth it!

Dr. Tattelbaum is an amazing doctor. Not only is he a concerned doctor he is a perfectionist in every sense of the word. My scar is almost invisible on my Nigerian/ Trinidadian skin! I attribute it all to his skill. He is sooo humble too he never takes any credit for how flat and thin my scar turned out. I was the one with the 4 inch muscle separation. Everything is nice and tight now. I have been released to all my regular activities but I’m still gonna wait till 12 weeks just because my diastasis was so wide and my umbilical hernia was very large. Looks like I will be going back to him for a umbilicalplasty.

Well the day came and what a day it was. I woke up from anesthesia fine. Got the pain patch behind the ear in the car ride home but still threw up about 2x due to the OxyContin. And let me tell you ladies throwing up after muscle repair will send burning fire through your belly. But I made it through officially 2 weeks today. Still sleeping on the recliner but I’m about 90% straight. Not going back to work till about 4 weeks healed. So far love my results and my lovely Bonito & Co. compression. Stage 2 is already getting bigger on me so I stuff some Lipo foam on the sides to make it more snug. Couldn’t have gotten through the first few days without a walker, drains, toilet seat riser and shower chair. My abdominal muscles were very irritated. My Diastasis was significant. Happy healings to you ladies in the New Year!