While experiencing that wonderful joy and happiness of their newborn baby after birth, women also start to contemplate on how they can get rid of the extra weight they gained during pregnancy and become concerned as to whether or not their bellies and breasts would look like they used to.

Pregnancy and birth might cause visible changes particularly in the breasts and abdominal regions of women. These changes might become much more prevalent and disturbing in women who remained physically inactive for a long time due to various problems, had given birth more than once or gained too much weight during pregnancy.

First thing that new mothers should know is that some of the weight gained during pregnancy would be lost right after birth. Some of it may remain. It is possible to get rid of this excess weight with diet and exercise after the lactation period. However, if there is persistent weight and local fat on your body that do not go away despite diet and exercise (in the mean time the patient has lost weight as much as she can through natural methods and usually the lactation period has been over), it is possible to get rid of this excess weight with liposuction. With liposuction, persistent fat accumulation particularly in the belly, waist and hips can be removed and patients can get back to their original forms they had before pregnancy.

However, if the patient has, in addition to fat accumulation, serious degree of sagging, cracking or bagginess, then liposuction is not an appropriate solution and usually the best option is a belly stretching operation. With this operation, abdominal muscles are squeezed and made tighter and excess abdominal skin that has sagged would be removed. The scar of this operation remains under bikini or undergarment and becomes less visible in time. However, this operation is suitable only for those mothers who are not planning to give birth again.

Various deformations can be observed in breasts post pregnancy as well. Even some mothers would be reluctant to breast-feed their babies due to the fear that their breasts would become deformed. However this is a quite wrong assumption because it should be noted that the healthiest nutrition for babies is mother’s milk and today, the physicians recommend only mother’s milk for the baby during the first 6 months. If the breasts have sagged in an undesirable manner after the birth or the sagging that was there before the pregnancy got worse and breasts have started to look as if empty, this can be corrected with the breast lifting operation after the lactation period. If the patient also requests an increase in the volume of her breasts, then breast enlargement operation is carried using breasts prosthesis.