to be seriously considering a tummy tuck?

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Have a very big wrinkly tummy left over from twins and horrible emergency c-section...am I reading too many celeb mags? Or is it actually ok to do this? Seems a bit selfish to be going off and having surgery and having to recuperate etc...just to feel thinner...but then again, it is affecting my life. But perhaps is just something to focus negative thoughts on, and part of what I've been through, war wounds etc...
anyone?

i would love a tummy tuck, I have extra skin that no amount of exercise or dieting will get rid of. Shame I don't have a spare £5k kicking about.

No, I don't think you are being unreasonable. It's your life and you only have one to live. So if you are unhappy and it affects you why not do something about it if you can?

Personally, I don't buy the 'war wounds' thing. I had a boob job after breast feeding my two girls left me with nothing. It's one of the best things I ever did and I have no regrets. Just make sure you have a plastic surgeon, not a cosmetic surgeon - I wouldn't have surgery with somewhere like Transform for example.

Likewise re the extra wrinkly skin - and it gets worse the more weight disappears. But worry about the risks of surgery and the message it would send to my children, especially two daughters. Think that stops me doing more than thinking about it. It is a crap side effect though and can be utterly depressing so not saying don't do it.

My friend had a tummy tuck after she had been pg at 15, got very very overweight, and then lost 9 stone when she was 42. It was a brutal recovery tbh - the surgeons told her that it is the most painful cosmetic surgery.

Friend who had twins has had a lot of sucess with pilates in tightening her tummy up

Pilates here I come. Might not get rid of the skin but can shove it into some Spanx and pretend it's not there.

Incidentally - do you let your partner see you naked? I'm afraid the skin will put him off forever but I have discovered the joys of big French knickers and a bit of sauce.

YANBU- if thats what you want to do and you can afford it go for it.

I considered it but didn't go through with it. My tums hideous after 2 big kids and a radical hysterectomy, the skin hangs over the scar in a really unpleasant way. We got some money through a critical illness policy because I had cervical cancer and I seriously thought about it but I was worried about going through surgery again. In the end we used the money on an extension and new kitchen. I've learned to live with the state of my tummy

I plan to do this. After last pg was left with huge patch of skin beneath belly button, size of my hand, that is totally dead. No normal feeling in it at all, just mildly painful at all times, like when your foot goes numb. Docs just shrug and say they've never heard of it/seen anything like it before.... They say only thing to suggest is tummy tuck where they remove all that skin completely. Can't spend the next 40 years with it. Now 32 wks pg with ds2 and last! Planning to lose excess weight and try to fund it. can anyone recommend a surgeon?!

Thing is, my stomach muscles were pulled apart so much by the twin pregnancy (kids were big, and I am small) that it was basically a big hernia, so I had the structural bit of a tummy tuck done already, so pilates won't help with the skin that's still there...I just worry about operations, and recovery, never seems to be an ideal time to do it. Money too of course. Don't like my dh to see me naked, but he does, just feel quite insecure about it, I wear a corset every day! It just makes me look normal, I would have a strange sticky out belly without it, sort of looks like a lump of fat on my front.
Trebuchet, your thing sounds really odd...
yes surgeon recommendations please! The guy who did my muscles was good, but kind of don't trust him.

Dai Davies is very good. Highly qualified and did a friend of mine beautifully. About £7K though.