Tummy Tuck, breast augmentation, Lipo, & BBL - Dominican Republic, DO

A bit about myself. I'm 24. 3 Boys and 6 months pregnant with my first daughter. So excited! I will be having my tubes tight and shutting down mothership :P. After much research I originally wanted Dr. Cortez to be my ps, because not only is he the best in TX, but he's only 1.5 hours away by plane. However, way too expensive and I'm not sure if he can give me the natural small waist look like i've seen from Dra. Duran in the DR. I'm terrified of leaving the states for surgery. Absolutely terrified. I believe the reason for this is because for 1.) If something goes wrong i'll be far from home. 2.) Being away from mi family. 3.) I've never left TX. The furthest i've been is Houston, Sad I know. But it's been worth not traveling just yet. My husband and I have been through it all. I met him when I was 11 and he was 13. We married and had our first child at 15 and so on. We were made for each other and have learned many lessons in life. We've both always worked hard and believe in education and instead of splurging on crazy adventures we've managed to pay off our first home and are now having a Brand new house built, paid off many vehicles, and our family has never gone without. Thank god! So after I have my baby girl I plan to wait a year and tone up my arms and legs, so Mrs. Duran can focus on my waist etc. Originally I only wanted only a tummy tuck, but after reviewing her before and afters here on real self I fell in love with the idea that she can give me an unbelievable transformation and bring back my self confidence by performing her BBL and Liposculpting. My husband at first was not for any surgery and then out of nowhere took a look outside his box and felt for me and decided to be supportive and told me I deserve the chance to have the body I never got to enjoy at a young age. At the age of 15 and bearing my first child. I weighed 130 excersized regulary etc. However, when you're that age you can also eat a box of pizza and burn everything so quickly. Well, I made the mistake of thinking I could eat the same way while pregnant and ended up gaining 60 lbs! I never worried about how big I got because I thought it was normal. I bounced right back to 145 but I paid the price with stretch marks. Same thing with my second child. I gained 50 lbs. and bounced back to 150. With my third I gained 45 lbs and bounced down to 140 after, by this time i began to get stretch marks at the top of my thighs from where my legs would swell up. Which leads me to my fourth pregnancy I am at. I actually started at 155. I started off bad, but i've made it my duty to not gain so much. I'm watching what I eat and excersizing. Something I never did with my previous pregnancys. I'm 6 months pregnant and ive gained 13 pounds so far. Hopefully, i continue to gain slowly. My husband was for my tummy tuck but not at all for the BBL, he works out religiously and eats great and works hard plays hard as well as our boys, so he tells me to do the same. I have a booty but I dont want to make my butt small hard and toned. I want the bubblicious curvy hips that dont appear through training and diet alone. I have some curve and what not but I want a little enhancement. So after much topic of discussion and showing him Dra Durans before and afters etc. He said. "Well hun, looks like i'll have my very own model wife soon". :"D I was so excited!! I was willing to do it with or without his support, because i've supported his dreams and I made up my mind that I was doing this for me and I deserve it and that his negativity would not stand in my way, but it's always a wonderful feeling to know he loves me so much that he can change his mind and see what I see. I'm so happy he's on board and makes me feel at ease about the procedure. I can't believe he's letting me do this much less leave the states! The thought of even doing this was just that "A thought" and now that I have his full support it's now "A journey". My sister has agreed to accompany me. She was once a CNA and worked at a nursing home and took care of the elderly. Changed them, bathed them, etc. She's very strong. She nursed both my parents after heart surgerys, pneumonia, etc. (They're at that age) :(. And she's even nursed our pup from near death. She's on the nurses about everything she doesn't understand, so I know if something isn't right she'll find it and she'll ensure I recieve proper care and she's so good about medications and times. I'm scared but I know That with everybodys support and through prayer everything will be okay. I haven't called Dra. Duran's office or anything yet. I plan to get quotes etc. about 3 months after I have my baby. In order to take realistic pictures to send to her and get her opionion on what she believes I need to have done. She's the expert on giving me the body I want and I know she is the one who can deliver it. I know for sure I ant the procedure 1 year after the birth of my babygirl. So I know i'm looking at May 2015. I'm sure she's not even booking for that time just yet. So if anybody on here is looking at going to Santo Domingo, DR in that time maybe we can buddy up. My sister will ensure we are taken care of and we speak both English and Spanish.

I gave birth to my babygirl 2 weeks ago! I never went past 196 with any of my children but I weighed in at 222 with my princess! OmG!! I am now at 180 lbs. I tied my tubes the very next day! Whoop whoop and now I'm excited to get a quote from Dra duran. I wanted to wait to take pics to send to her but now I just want to secure my date and price. I lost alot of blood with my baby. I hope this doesn't predict problems for me in the future so in the mean time I'm just going to get strong take vitamins and eat healthy to help me in my recovery. :D I'm going to ask her how long she thinks I should wait after giving birth. For sure I want to wait more than 8 months but no more than 1 year. Here I go.

My hemo is 11.2. I believe it's because it was the last day of my period and as I said previously I had lost alot of blood with my baby. My hemo had dropped to a 6 after Giving birth. Then I was at a 8 the next day and my tubes were tied anyways even after my obgyn said she wouldn't do it if my hemo wasn't at 10 but anesthesiologist said it was okay at a 8. I was nervous but as yall can see it was no biggie. :) on a down note my hypothyroidism came back. My thyroid results have been good for more 4 years and now it's back. My mchc is low at 30.9. Normal is between 32-35.5 my row is high at 17.4. Normal is between 11-15. I'll uptake my iron and hope for the best because I'm now considering a BA but I'll do without if my hemo isn't the best it can be. Going to take pics and send to Duran to set my date and receive my quote. I'm now aiming for january. I'm trying to avoid income tax months because I heard that's when it's more packed. Anti-thyroid meds have to be taken on a empty stomache and have to take it hours before or after any other multi vitamin especially iron. So ill take it at 5am every morning then take my vitamins etc with my breakfast around 9 or 10am. Any who I'll keep yall updated. :)