During pregnancies there are very obvious changes in a woman’s body. And after them, it is to be expected that her body will return to her original state. But this occurs and not always, if the woman is young, she has a good muscle tone prior to pregnancy, and normal weight as well. Also if it is her first child.

As the years go by, or after several pregnancies, and one or several lactations, makes the return to having a flat stomach, and a non-sagging breast, become more difficult to achieve.

Many of the patients who come to our practice have been working and training in the gym. With perseverance and sacrifice, seeking to have a flat stomach again. They have been on a diet to shed the extra pounds. They have obtained in some cases, a good result, but not optimal and in other cases, it has been a failure.

Postpartum reconstruction surgery or as the English speakers say, mommy makeover, consists of reconstructing in most cases the abdomen and chest, which are the most damaged parts of the woman’s body.

The abdomen, because the excess skin and the weakness of the muscles make it necessary to rebuild them and the chest will have to be increased, raised, both or reduced, depending on each case. Here is one of the latest in which we have performed breast augmentation and abdominoplasty in 3 hours of surgery.