Having a baby changes everything—including your body!  Stretched and distorted breasts, bulging stomach, weight gain on the hips, and thicker thighs.  Does this sound like someone you know?  Maybe you?

A sagging body need not be a permanent souvenir of childbearing.  Mothers just like you are turning to plastic surgery for a “Mommy Makeover,” a combination of cosmetic procedures to regain and even improve their youthful shape.  According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) President Roxanne Guy, MD, “In this day and age, women are giving birth later, returning to their careers sooner, and have busier schedules than ever before.  Many are finding cosmetic surgery to be the answer to returning to a pre-pregnancy shape they are comfortable with.” 

Commonly requested procedures include tummy tucks and liposuction, as well as breast lifts, with or without implants to fill out sagging breasts.  In fact, more than 325,000 tummy tucks, breast augmentations, and breast lifts were performed on women ages 20-39 in 2006, according to statistics released by the ASPS.  The 11% increase over 2005 statistics in "Mommy Makeover" procedures is more than five times higher than the growth of overall cosmetic plastic surgery procedures.  (Source:  ASPS, March 22, 2007)