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Aging and pregnancy leads to significant changes in a woman's body. During this time, her body undergoes many physical adjustments to accommodate the growing baby, including stretching muscle, fat, and skin.

Every woman is different. Some pregnant mothers gain a significant amount of weight, while other women gain a modest amount of weight. Heredity can also play a role in how the body responds to pregnancy. However, regardless of what physical changes occur during the perinatal and postnatal period, most women agree that their bodies look different after delivery and nursing. This is why Dr. Chang offers his Washington DC mommy makeover procedure.

If you are concerned about the appearance of loose skin and stretch marks from pregnancy, or restoring breasts that appear deflated and saggy after breastfeeding, we can help you regain a tighter, trimmer feminine figure and full, rounded, more youthful breasts. "Mommy Makeover" procedures can include:


What is a mommy makeover?

A mommy makeover is a combination procedure that is customized to your needs, with the goal of helping you restore your pre-pregnancy body. Dr. Chang will consult with you to understand what physical changes you’ve experienced that you would like to address to rejuvenate your body.

The typical areas rejuvenated during a mommy makeover are the breasts and abdomen. However, your procedure addresses you uniquely, and for many women, other common concerns that are targeted are stubborn fat deposits on the thighs and buttocks, stretched labia, a prominent C-section scar, unwanted hair growth, or new skin concerns such as wrinkles or pigment changes.

The mommy makeover allows all the procedures you want to be done safely, during a single surgical session. This means there is one recovery period to contend with instead of several.

How is a mommy makeover performed?

Your mommy makeover in Northern Virginia will be customized to restore the various body areas affected by pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. The most common three procedures performed in a custom makeover are a tummy tuck, breast augmentation and/or breast lift, and liposuction. These three procedures are often performed in one surgical appointment.

This is an advantage for you, as it reduces the overall cost of surgery, and has just one recovery time. Other women may require a "staged" mommy makeover, with the procedures in two surgical appointments. You can expect a surgery lasting from two to four hours, while under general anesthesia.

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Restoring Your Body After Baby

Many women are shocked at the physical changes to the body after pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding. The quality of the skin varies from person to person. While some women may not face problems with stretch marks, others are left with a tummy area that appears disfigured, with sagging, deflated skin that causes embarrassment and limits what types of clothing can be worn. Thankfully, a customized “mommy makeover” in Northern Virginia can do wonders for restoring the abdomen after pregnancy, A tummy tuck can tighten the entire abdominal wall, including the underlying muscles if they have separated, removing much of the overly stretched skin and reducing the appearance of stretch marks significantly.

Breastfeeding is natural, healthy, and has many benefits for mother and baby alike. However, milk production swells the breasts to a much larger size and can stretch the tissues, and change the areola and nipple. When breastfeeding is complete, some breasts may shrink back down and tighten up, but more commonly, loose tissue remains. Once full, round breasts can be left looking saggy, droopy, and deflated. A mommy makeover may include a breast lift along with an implant to restore volume and bring back a fresh, youthful appearance to the breasts, high on the chest. The breasts can be restored to the position and size (or larger) and shape they had prior to feeding the baby naturally.

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When Exercise and Diet are Not Enough

Young mothers get stressed about body image after giving birth, and may feel that the look of youth is gone forever – but something can be done about it. Many of the physical changes to the body during pregnancy are difficult – or impossible – to solve with diet and exercise alone. That’s when a mommy makeover can make the difference. Unwanted deposits of fat, saggy tummy skin, and droopy breasts can all be treated by Dr. Chang, our board-certified plastic surgeon. The first step is a consultation, so we can learn about your goals and evaluate your body’s post pregnancy changes, and then we can advise you of the options to restore you to your pre-baby form with one of the most successful providers of mommy makeover Washington DC has to offer.

Mommy Makeover Procedure Options

Dr. Chang will discuss which procedures are best for your customized mommy makeover to suit your needs and aesthetic goals.


Breast Augmentation

If your breasts have lost volume, breast augmentation can be done using implants or a fat transfer. Breast augmentation will give your breasts a youthful fullness, create a shapely, feminine physique, and correct any asymmetry.

If you choose implants, Dr. Chang will help you decide on the size, shape and type of implants that are best for your frame and vision for your breasts. These implants will be inserted through precise incisions.

If you choose a fat transfer, Dr. Chang will help you select an area of your body that has excess, unwanted fat. This fat will be harvested using very gentle liposuction, which also provides the benefit of sculpting that area, and the fat will then be purified. These fat cells will then be injected into your breasts to give them a bigger, fuller size that appears very natural.

Breast Lift

Breasts can sag with age, and pregnancy and breastfeeding can make breast sagging worse. To provide milk for a baby, the breast glands fill and expand. If the milk is not used, or once the milk is no longer needed, the milk glands diminish, which causes the breasts to sag and droop. A breast lift procedure involves removing excess breast skin and tissue, raising the breasts higher on the chest wall, reshaping the breasts and providing a perky lift and upward tilt that creates a firmer, youthful appearance.

Breast Reduction

Breast growth during pregnancy sometimes remains even after breastfeeding. For women who already had large breasts before they had children, their breasts can become pendulous and uncomfortably oversized. A breast reduction will remove excess breast fat, glandular tissue and skin, reduce the areolae and create smaller, more comfortable, more attractive, and proportional breasts.

Liposuction

Fat pockets can build up during pregnancy and be extremely hard to reduce afterward. Despite exercise and a healthy diet, the stubborn fat doesn’t go anywhere. Common liposuction areas during a mommy makeover are the abdomen and thighs, but any fat pockets that aren’t responding to your efforts can be addressed. Dr. Chang will slim and contour your body and provide more trim, sculpted lines.

Tummy Tuck

Pregnancy causes the abdominal wall and skin to expand in order to house your growing baby (or babies!). After childbirth, there is often excess fat and skin remaining in the abdominal area, and even when weight is lost, the skin remains loose.

Dr. Chang provides a tummy tuck to flatten the abdominal area, remove excess fat, tighten skin and provide a firm, tight, contoured abdomen and waistline.

Labiaplasty

The labia can be stretched or damaged during childbirth. Afterward, the labia can end up hanging or protruding. This effect can be uncomfortable or embarrassing during sex, while exercising, wearing tight clothes or a swimsuit. Dr. Chang can perform a labiaplasty during your mommy makeover to remove excess skin, and to shape the labia into an attractive shape and smaller size.

Vaginal Rejuvenation

Vaginal concerns and changes after childbirth are different for each person, which is why Dr. Chang customizes your vaginal rejuvenation according to your specific needs, providing a number of procedures for your treatment. Your vaginal rejuvenation may include muscle tightening (also called vaginoplasty), clitoral hood reduction, or vulvoplasty to reshape the vulva.

C-section Scar Revision

If you had a C-section to deliver your child, you may have been left with a prominent scar. Dr. Chang can revise this scar to improve and minimize its appearance.

Planning your Mommy Makeover recovery

You need to plan for your recovery, as you will need help. As a mommy makeover often includes a custom tummy tuck to restore the abdomen to a taut, firm, youthful look, which may require tightening stretched or split muscles, it requires time to heal. Arrange for another person to help you during the first week after surgery - you will be unable to lift your children or perform your usual daily tasks, and need to spend at least a week resting, taking gentle walks, and caring for yourself so you heal properly.

Plan on two weeks off work. While many women may feel well enough earlier, it is important that you have enough time off if you work. Most patients can return to their usual exercise programs after six weeks, after being given the okay by Dr. Chang.

Scars: What to expect

Dr. Chang uses a very meticulous surgical technique for incision closure. The incision sites are carefully placed so that the scars are hidden, even when wearing revealing clothing. With breast augmentation to a breast lift, the incisions are placed around the areola, or in the breast crease in most cases. Tummy tuck incisions can vary in length, depending upon the needs of the patient, but are placed below or around your navel.

Am I a candidate for a mommy makeover?

Undergoing a mommy makeover is a big decision. If you feel unhappy with the condition of your body after having children, you are likely a good candidate for this custom surgery. Generally, a good candidate is in the following condition:

  • In good health
  • A non-smoker
  • Has saggy or deflated-looking breasts
  • The abdomen has sagging skin, tissue, and fat
  • Stretch marks on the lower abdomen
  • Excess fat is lodged on abdomen, flanks, buttocks or thighs

What is the cost of a mommy makeover?

Because your mommy makeover is customized for you according to your unique needs, the price varies for each patient. The cost will depend on which procedures you choose, your physical concerns, and your aesthetic goals. Once you meet with Dr. Chang and choose which procedures will be best for you, Dr. Chang will create a surgical treatment plan to achieve your goals. From there, you will have the exact cost for your mommy makeover.

Restoring a firm, youthful figure after pregnancy and childbirth

Many women with children are dismayed with the appearance of the breasts and body after having children. Dieting and exercise cannot resolve some physical conditions. Even losing all the "baby weight" will not fully restore the body if the skin on the abdomen and breasts has been stretched too far. Nature dictates that the woman's body stores fat during pregnancy, a genetically-programmed way to protect the growing baby, and this fat can be very difficult to lose with diet and exercise. A mommy makeover allows you to have the firm, fit body you had prior to having children.

Why choose Dr. Chang for your Mommy Makeover?

Dr. Christopher C. Chang is widely regarded as being among the finest plastic surgeons practicing in the DC area. Throughout his education and career, he has excelled, including a six-year residency at Yale, and an extensive craniofacial and cosmetic surgery fellowship for adults and children at Johns Hopkins. His talent as a plastic surgeon, along with his commitment to producing results that appear extremely natural has led to his stellar reputation. His mission is to provide the highest level of plastic surgery, and to perform every procedure with the most advanced techniques. His exclusive clientele trusts him to create the look they envision, including in custom mommy makeover procedures.

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