Starting My Mommy Makeover Recovery

I’m a 28 y/o mom of two boys, aged 3 and 8. I’ve wanted this procedure for years now. Pregnancy was never easy on my body, I’m petite 4’11 around 110-120lbs, and left me feeling like I was a 25 year old in a 50 year olds body. I researched and saved relentlessly. Finally my husband came across Dr. Chris Thomson, only a few hours away from where I live. I was so excited and nauseatingly nervous once I was finally booked for a mastoplexy (lift and augment) and tummy tuck. The staff were so inviting from the start. Dr. Chris was very straightforward and I trusted his knowledge fully. The experience so far has been really good. I’ll post updates as my recovery process goes along.

Sorry I’ve started posting late but will try and go back as detailed as I can. Surgery day was Oct. 25th, I was so nervous I hadn’t slept much in a week, as a mom I felt like I had so much to prepare for up until surgery day, so when it finally came I actually just got anxious for the recovery to start. The whole process was very quick, the nurses and anesthesiologist were amazing to me and my husband. One nurse I’ll remember forever because she would tell me how much like her daughter I was so I feel like she really gave me motherly care that my nerves so desperately needed lol. I had some complications under anesthesia that no one had foreseen, but I feel greatful I was in safe capable hands. I had hoped to put in 450cc ultra high profile implants to upgrade my very deflated natural 36D’s and Dr. Thomson explained the risks of trying to put in implants that technically will fit but might cause complications. I ended up with 415cc regular profile (I’ll talk more about that soon) The pain off the very start was more than I had expected, I feel like I got more pain meds for getting a tooth pulled lol, but not too excruciating. I feel like all the pain came from the abdominal muscle repair, Dr. Thomson had explained my muscles were extremely separated and he did more than usual to bring them together, and it still is the main source of pain. Feel free to ask any questions, I’ve been a long time lurker on here so any help I can offer, I’m more than happy.

Each day has gone by slowly but easier and easier. Still the majority of my discomfort is due to me still having to clear my lungs after intubation, coughing is no easy task but gets less and less. I’ve stopped taking the small dose of Morphine I was prescribed and used just for nights mostly. I ended up having to send pics to Dr. Thomson as my tummy had gotten quite hot, red and increasingly swollen just between the belly button and the incision. Not an hour later and he had sent in an antibiotic for me in case of early infection starting. I can’t lie it was hard not to panic but I hadn’t had any other signs of infection so I just tried to take it easier. I haven’t been sleeping well at night, especially without the hard pain meds but feeling pretty good otherwise, trying to walk and go out for fresh air with my dogs helps quite a bit to not feel like such a zombie. I’m still unsure of my implant size, they are crazy swollen yet so I know I cannot say much but they look so tiny! Like from surgery day to now my side profile is the same if not smaller, so I’m growing crazy impatient to see them drop and fluff lol. But otherwise I’m super excited to see the results, I wasn’t able to look at myself before yesterday because I’d get queezy. But now it’s so far so good! Fingers crossed the antibiotics kick the chance of infection.