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What's the Best Procedure for my Huge Stomach?
This experience is extremely common after pregnancy. Your rectus muscles can be stretched laterally and there may be excess skin and soft tissue over your abdomen which can be very difficult to remove. A tummy tuck removes excess skin and fat from the abdomen and also repairs the sperated abdominal muscles which would be the best option. Your guidelines to having a good result, in addition to being in good general health, include being close to your ideal bodyweight. This menas that your body mass index should be in the mid-20 range. This will insure maximum benefit from the surgery. Many doctors talk to new moms and develop a pla including reaching a good weight, finding a good time to perform surgery (new babies and toddlers can require a lot of attention), and create a good plan for surgery.
Clinical Context
Diastasis recti is a widening of the connective tissue between the rectus abdominis muscles that often develops during pregnancy. Exercise and diet cannot fix this separation because the tissue itself has stretched, not just weakened. During a tummy tuck, the surgeon sutures the muscle edges back together at the midline, tightening the abdominal wall in addition to removing excess skin and fat. Liposuction removes fat only and does not repair muscle separation, so it isn't a substitute for a tummy tuck when diastasis recti is present.
