Mommy Makeover in Beverly Hills

A Mommy Makeover addresses several postpartum concerns in one plan, so the breasts and body are designed to look balanced together. Depending on what is safest for you, the plan is done in one surgery or split into stages.

Each Mommy Makeover is uniquely designed based on your specific concerns, body type, and aesthetic goals, with results planned to look natural and feel authentic to you. Not every patient wants or needs every procedure, and each addition means a longer surgery and more garment time (when adding liposuction makes sense).

Exercise cannot tighten stretched skin or bring separated abdominal muscles back together. Getting back to your goal weight helps, and many changes improve on their own in the months after birth, but loose skin and a muscle diastasis usually need surgery.

• Breast Augmentation (to restore lost volume)
• Breast Lift (to correct sagging and elevate breasts)
• Breast Reduction (for improved comfort and proportion)
• Combination Breast Lift with Augmentation
• Fat Grafting to the Breast (a smaller, implant-free increase of about half a cup to a cup)

• Tummy Tuck (Abdominoplasty) (removes loose skin and repairs separated muscles)
• Liposuction (targeting stubborn fat deposits)
• Diastasis Recti Repair, which is part of every tummy tuck, and umbilical hernia repair in the same operation

• Labiaplasty
• Non-surgical treatments such as Botox

Procedures that share the same area add little time. Diastasis and umbilical hernia repair are done through the tummy tuck incision, and liposuction of the flanks is often added. Breast and abdominal surgery can be combined for a healthy patient when the total stays within about six hours.

Risk rises when a breast lift is combined with another operation, particularly a tummy tuck (how adding a tummy tuck changes risk). When a plan would run long, Dr. Killeen splits it into stages about three months apart, so you are healed from the first surgery before the second.

Dr. Killeen caps liposuction at 5 liters per surgery, which is also the California limit for outpatient surgery.

Your journey begins with a personalized consultation, assessing your concerns and creating a tailored surgical plan designed specifically for your goals, including whether it fits safely in one surgery or should be staged. The pre-op evaluation is where Dr. Killeen makes sure you are healthy and safe for the surgery you want.

Mommy Makeover surgery is performed under general anesthesia at our accredited Beverly Hills surgery center or Cedars-Sinai (surgery center vs. hospital). Dr. Killeen performs your surgery herself, and a surgical assistant may help close the incisions at the end, which shortens your time under anesthesia.

A board-certified anesthesiologist cares for you throughout surgery. To lower the risk of blood clots, you walk early, leg compression devices are used, and blood thinners are common after a tummy tuck for patients who meet certain criteria. Patients who stay overnight are taken to the partner recovery facility by medical transport.

Moms tend to put their kids first, but this is the time to call in favors. Patients who go back to lifting children or physical work too soon have more wound healing problems and can damage the muscle repair from a tummy tuck.

• Line up help at home for at least the first 7 to 10 days
• Arrange for someone else to lift and carry young children for about four weeks
• Plan meals and a comfortable recovery space
• Follow your surgeon's instructions closely

• A flatter abdomen, though early swelling hides some of the change
• Improved breast shape and position
• Removal of excess skin

• Visible improvement as swelling fades
• Swelling greatly reduced
• More defined body contours

• Final shape visible around six months
• Scars continue to fade for one to two years
• Results hold up with a stable weight

• Sustain a stable weight
• Regular exercise and balanced diet
• Good skincare practices and hydration
• Plan surgery for after you are done having children

• Wound healing problems, which are more likely when several large incisions heal at once or when you go back to lifting too soon
• A seroma, bleeding or a hematoma, and infection
• Blood clots in the legs or lungs, which walking, leg compression devices, and blood thinners when needed help prevent
• Anesthesia complications, which become more likely after about six hours
• Changes in nipple sensation and in breastfeeding after breast surgery
• Scarring and asymmetry

Each part of your plan has its own risks. See the risks of a tummy tuck, breast lift, and breast augmentation.