Maternal Aesthetics: Fast recovery after pregnancy – myth or reality?

You can certainly list a dozen stars that very quickly return to shape, as if childbirth was child’s play and the figure was restored by magic. This is not true. However? The plastic and reconstructive surgeon of the clinic of aesthetic medicine “Beauty Time” tells about Velikhanov Rashid.

Rashid Velikhanov, plastic and reconstructive surgeon

The birth of a child is a very happy moment in the life of every woman. However, it has a drawback – these are injuries and aesthetic changes in the figure, including muscle diastasis, cracks, cracks, the appearance of excess skin and fat traps in the abdomen. For this reason, young mothers are often ashamed of their bodies. My main field of study is women’s postpartum recovery or Maternity aesthetics. I often perform complex operations, i.e. we solve several problems at once in one operation. And this allows you to return the figure before birth. The most popular operations are breast lift with or without implants, abdominoplasty (tummy tuck), liposuction, intimate plastic surgery, lipomodelling. By combining all these operations with each other, a beautiful figure can be obtained in an operation that we frequently perform.

There may be risks in any of the above operations and therefore should be carefully examined beforehand to rule out problems. To do this, you need to pass a series of tests and instrumental methods of examination, and in some cases, psychological preparation is also needed. All this is done by visiting authorized specialists.

Contraindications for surgery

• the presence of acute diseases, including viral, infectious;
• chronic diseases in the acute stage;
• malignant neoplasms;
• diseases of the blood and circulatory system;
• psychological diseases;
• skin diseases in the acute stage;
• breastfeeding period;

When can I have surgery after giving birth?

You cannot do the procedure while breastfeeding. It should be six months after the end of lactation, and you also need to do an ultrasound examination of the mammary glands to make sure that the lactation period is over.

How long does the surgery take?

The duration of the operation depends on the type of operation. For example, a breast lift or mastopexy takes two and a half hours, in abdominoplasty and in combination, 5-6 hours, and the combination of operations may be different and the duration is different accordingly.

rehabilitation period

The rehabilitation period largely depends on the reserves of the patient’s body, that is, the stronger the body, the faster the rehabilitation. Usually my patients go to work after complex operations, for example: abdominoplasty + breast lift, already in 7-10 days. You should know that compression underwear should be worn for a month. The primary outcome will be within a month of the compression underwear removal phase, but the final result of nearly every surgery is six months and scars take up to a year to mature.

Can I breastfeed after breast aesthetics?

Yes, you will be able to breastfeed after breast aesthetics if you give birth again, as we protect the milk ducts except for what needs to be done occasionally.

reduction mammoplasty (reduction of the mammary glands) with hypertrophy of the mammary glands or gigantomasti, we are talking about helping a woman with large breasts, when the trauma is great, but already here the mammary glands provide discomfort in life, back pain. etc.

Can I get pregnant after tummy tuck surgery?

It is possible to get pregnant no later than a year after the operation, but it is undesirable because the scar maturation stage usually lasts for a year. in my practice

There have been cases of pregnancy after abdominoplasty and three weeks after the operation while the patient was still wearing compression underwear – this is undesirable but everything went well for the patient and we had another abdominoplasty one year after delivery.

At this age, can you do postpartum recovery operations and when is it not worth it?

Most often, patients presenting for recovery after childbirth are between 28 and 50 years old. At this age, the body is most often healthy, but there are exceptions, and it happens that even at the age of 60-70 they resort to such operations. Here, we can easily say that the surgery can be performed at any age if the body is healthy. This requires a thorough examination and the operation can be performed when there are no contraindications.