Mastopexy and abdominoplasty after childbirth to regain the figure
Interventions related, normally, with the areas that are altered or changed during pregnancy such as the breasts and abdomen area are performed. In the breasts generally what occurs, especially if there is breastfeeding, is a ptosis and the intervention is called mastopexy and in the abdomen is the correction and is called abdominoplasty or abdominal lipectomy.
Mastopexy or breast lift after lactation
Mastopexy is an intervention that consists of lifting and shaping the mammary gland. There are several types of intervention depending on the degree of ptosis or sagging of the breast. In mild degrees the mastopexy is called periareolar and only requires a scar around the areola. When it is more advanced, grade 2 or moderate, the intervention generally requires a vertical scar. And in severe grades or grade 3, it is necessary to add a scar in the mammary sulcus.
When there is also a loss of volume of the mammary gland is generally necessary to add a prosthesis that is associated with the intervention of mastopexy.
Abdominoplasty after childbirth
Abdominoplasty is a tummy tuck which consists of removing excess skin, excess fat if any, and tightening the abdominal muscles. After pregnancy, the rectus abdominis, the muscles that makes us abdominal wall, separates and the only way to rejoin it is making a plication of the muscles.
We always try to make the incision or scar coincide with the pubic or suprapubic area, and if there is a cesarean scar we try to make it coincide in order to eliminate it. The length of the scar will be as long as the excess skin we have. When the excess is minimal or is only in the infraumbilical part we can do what we call a mini-abdominoplasty, where the scar is much shorter and also solves the problem.
When to perform surgery after childbirth
Breast surgery or mastopexy can not be performed during childbirth, it is impossible, you should always wait to finish breastfeeding if any, and if not, one or two months after delivery until the pregnancy changes improve.
In the case of abdominoplasty always have to wait too, usually one or two months after breastfeeding, and in cases where there is no lactation and in very specific cases could be done at the time of delivery, but generally it is advisable to do it always after.
Care of the mother after mastopexy and abdominoplasty
After the interventions, both the one and the other, the first weeks you have to be a little strict: you have to avoid movements, especially at the level of arms in the breasts and avoid overexertion. To make more or less normal life has to be calculated a month, the same as to take weight, especially with young children, and during that month we generally have to wear special clothes, special bras in the case of the breasts and a special girdle in the case of abdominoplasty.