It is no surprise that the two biggest post-pregnancy body image complaints that bring patients in to consult a plastic surgeon are sagging breasts and a loose tummy. Therefore, the Mummy Makeover was developed as a surgical approach to address various post-pregnancy body issues simultaneously.
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Breasts
When a woman becomes pregnant, her breasts engorge; they get much larger with milk. Whether mums breastfeed or not, there is significant impact on their breasts to the extent where their breasts begin to droop. Also, their breasts become smaller after pregnancy. Hence, the thought process behind re-creating a mum’s breasts following pregnancy is to return her that upper pole fullness that she once enjoyed, or maybe even make it better than it was before. Depending on the individual’s condition, they can be addressed with breast augmentation, breast lift, or a breast reduction.
In addition, it is interesting to note that lifting the breasts also helps to lengthen the torso.
As their breasts sag and their tummy fills out, mums look heavier because their trunks become visually shortened. As a result, when the surgery lifts the breasts and brings them up on the chest, the trunk becomes longer and by relative proportions looks much slimmer, be it whether anything is done to the tummy.
Body
There is an array of issues and solutions when it comes to the body contouring part of a Mummy Makeover. For some mums, it may be just excess skin that needs to be removed. Whereas, other mums require a tummy tuck which removes excess skin and fat as well as addresses the layers underneath the skin and fat—the muscles. By stitching together the muscles that were stretched apart during childbearing, mums can achieve a flat tummy. In addition, liposuction, which can address excess fat when there isn’t sagging skin or loose muscles, is another common option used to improve a mum’s tummy after pregnancy. In addition, liposuction, which can address excess fat when there isn’t sagging skin or loose muscles, is another common option used to improve a mum’s tummy after pregnancy.
Additionally, many mum experience redundant or hanging labia skin after repeated pregnancies and vaginal deliveries. This might can embarrassment, pain with intercourse, or even friction sores when doing exercise. Labiaplasty can then be performed to remove excess or stretched-out labia minora to create and neater and tidier appearance to the labia area
Face
Some women also want to rejuvenate their faces at the time of their Mummy Makeover, doing multiple surgeries in one setting. The procedures for facial rejuvenation includes facelift, neck lift, fat grafting, injections to treat expression lines and wrinkles , and dermal fillers. Lifting of the face helps to address the sagging skin and muscles, while fat grafting and dermal fillers aim to restore lose volume due to aging.
Facial rejuvenation smoothes out the wrinkles, frown lines, and smile lines which can make a person look old and maybe even perpetually angry.
Sometimes, a combination of procedures will be done in the same setting. For example, having breast surgery done together while a tummy tuck. This combination will typically take longer hours, but it saves expense and recovery time compared to diving it up into two operations at different times.
When is the best
time to have a
mummy makeover?
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No doubt lots of beautiful things come with babies, but it definitely takes a toll on a woman’s figure.
Most of the procedures in the Mummy Makeover do not affect future pregnancies. Patients who have had breast implants and did breast lifts do not have any problems breast-feeding after, as long as it is not done via the periareolar incisions. Other procedures such as facelifts, necklift, labiaplasty, and liposculpture do not affect future pregnancies in any way either.
In terms of a tummy tuck, I will advice my patients to wait if they are sure they will be getting pregnant in the near future. However, most patients who were pregnant again after they have had a tummy tuck did not report any complications—the abdominal muscles and skin stretch as per normal during the fetal’s development. In fact, they even reported having better figures than after their first pregnancy!
In general, there is no best or worst time to have a Mummy Makeover, in fact, some of my patients are even grandmothers! Once the time calls for it, don’t put it off. Most of my patients say that it is the best thing they have ever done for themselves and wish that they have done it sooner.
To know more about Mummy Makeover procedures or to make an appointment with Dr Marco for an Mummy Makeover consultation , call us today at our clinic : 65-6464 8075 .

Dr Marco Faria-Correa
Internationally Trained Plastic & Cosmetic Surgeon
With Over 30 Years of Clinical Experience
Dr Marco performs not only Plastic Surgery, Non- Surgical Aesthetics treatments but also Reconstructive and Microsurgery.
- Graduated from Rio Grande do Sul University in Brazil (1978)
- Plastic Surgery Specialization certification (1984)
- Post-graduation specialization in Microsurgery & Hand Surgery (1989)
- A/Prof of the Plastic Surgery & Microsurgery Department in the Catholic University Hospital in Porto Alegre, Brazil (1989 – 1994)
- Developed his research project in adapting endoscopic methods to Plastic Surgery (1991)
- First case in endoscopic abdominoplasty and breast lifting (1992)
- Certified Robotic Surgeon (2015)
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Singapore 329563
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about Mummy Makeover
Is a Tummy Tuck recommended after my pregnancy?
A minimal of 1 to 3 days stay in the hospital is recommended. You are advised to stay quiet for the next 10 to 14 days, and you are able to go back to work within 10 to 14 days (depends on the individual) and you can resume light exercise after 3 weeks. Any vigorous exercise such as playing tennis or running marathons, after 2 to 3 months is recommended.
You are also advised to wear a support garment for the first 2 to 3 weeks, or longer to help reduce the swelling.
What is the downtime for Tummy Tuck/ Abdominoplasty?
A minimal of 1 to 3 days stay in the hospital is recommended. You are advised to stay quiet for the next 10 to 14 days, and you are able to go back to work within 10 to 14 days (depends on the individual) and you can resume light exercise after 3 weeks. Any vigorous exercise such as playing tennis or running marathons, after 2 to 3 months is recommended.
You are also advised to wear a support garment for the first 2 to 3 weeks, or longer to help reduce the swelling.
Is tummy tuck painful?
A minimal of 1 to 3 days stay in the hospital is recommended. You are advised to stay quiet for the next 10 to 14 days, and you are able to go back to work within 10 to 14 days (depends on the individual) and you can resume light exercise after 3 weeks. Any vigorous exercise such as playing tennis or running marathons, after 2 to 3 months is recommended.
You are also advised to wear a support garment for the first 2 to 3 weeks, or longer to help reduce the swelling.
Does tummy tuck have any downtime?
A minimal of 1 to 3 days stay in the hospital is recommended. You are advised to stay quiet for the next 10 to 14 days, and you are able to go back to work within 10 to 14 days (depends on the individual) and you can resume light exercise after 3 weeks. Any vigorous exercise such as playing tennis or running marathons, after 2 to 3 months is recommended.
You are also advised to wear a support garment for the first 2 to 3 weeks, or longer to help reduce the swelling.
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Gynecomastia Surgery (Male Breast Reduction)

Enlarged male breasts, also called gynecomastia, occur when excess deposits of localized fat accumulate in the chest area. Through tiny incisions, liposuction is used to suction out the fatty tissue, while excess skin is removed and tightened to leave the chest firmer and more contoured. With advances in medical techniques, this condition can be treated in a minimally invasive manner with minimal downtime.
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Enlarged male breasts, also called gynecomastia, occur when excess deposits of localized fat accumulate in the chest area. Through tiny incisions, liposuction is used to suction out the fatty tissue, while excess skin is removed and tightened to leave the chest firmer and more contoured. With advances in medical techniques, this condition can be treated in a minimally invasive manner with minimal downtime.
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Enlarged male breasts, also called gynecomastia, occur when excess deposits of localized fat accumulate in the chest area. Through tiny incisions, liposuction is used to suction out the fatty tissue, while excess skin is removed and tightened to leave the chest firmer and more contoured. With advances in medical techniques, this condition can be treated in a minimally invasive manner with minimal downtime.
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It is a minimally invasive surgery that uses a high tech machine call the Da Vinci Surgical System.
This Da Vinci Surgical System does not have any autonomy to operate on you. It is the surgeon who will operate on you. The surgeon will be the one who will sit at the console station and operate the machine to perform the surgery.
The advantage of using this Da Vinci Surgical System is because it shows the surgeon a 3D high-resolution surgical field and allows the surgeon to operate the robotic arms with his fingers on the control button on the console station to perform the surgery in a precise and with no tremor manner. The robotic arms work even better than our human wrists, where it can bend and twist at angles that we cannot do it with our hands. The advantages are smaller incisional scars, less risk of infection and a faster recovery time with better clinical outcome.
This robotic surgery has been used by cardiac, colorectal, general surgery, gynaecology, urology, head & neck surgery.