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Hey everyone! I have a question, has anyone here or know of someone who has had a tummy tuck and then later had more kids. Did that hanging pouch come back? After seeing the recent TT pics posted on here, I really want to get a TT after I lose all or most of my weight, but I am 33 years old and single, and would like to have more kids. I hate my stomach, it's the only thing I am self conscious of, but do I spend the money if that pouch is going to come back. AHHH..what to do, what to do?

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There is the potential for it to come back, but I don't think it would be as bad as it was pre tummy tuck. Kind of like the people that had TT's before they gained weight and then once the weight started coming off they rediscovered their flat tummy.

This was something I had to weigh for myself as I am single with no prospects in sight. My theory was that I couldn't wait around forever to see if I was going to get married and even if I did there wasn't any guarantee that we would have children. If at some point in the future I am blessed with a husband and children I will be ecstatic and if that diminishes the effect of the TT I just had done, so be it. I will be no different than so many other women who have great bodies up until they have children, except that I will have a band and should be able to lose my baby weight easier.

I did have some questions to answer when my mother read thru some of my materials, but in the end it comes down me and my life, not her and the potential for more grandchildren - but don't tell her I said that.

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Check out the message boards at makemeheal.com They have lots of posts daily and I know there are a couple of preggo people who had a TT in the past.....

Also you might want to call a couple plastic surgeons and see what they say. I am sure they've had people with TT get pregnant.

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I had the same concerns and am now finally thinking of doing a tummy tuck. some background info. I was a size 6 before I got pregnant with my first baby 10 yrs ago. gained 60 lbs and lost most of it. then I waited 8 yrs before having any more kids and in the past 4 yrs, I had 3 kids, one after the other. I'm now a size 16 and haven't been able to lose much so that's why i got banded.

after my first baby, I wanted a tummy tuck. my plastic surgeon advised me to wait until I had all my kids because from experience, I do gain A LOT of weight with my pregnancies (but I pretty much eat everything in sight and pregnancy is just an excuse to do that) so now that i'm done having kids, I finally got the band... weight loss is going really really slow but i guess I'll get there. I'm seeing a surgeon on June 11 in fact and I'll find out more details.

I guess in the end the decision is yours. I'm glad I didn't do a tummy tack 8 yrs ago because I did end up having more kids, and my tummy looks a lot worse now than it did back then. But then again, that would've been 8 yrs of looking awesome. whatever you decide, good luck.

Arianna

From Kuwait

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