Planning, ifs and buts of plastic surgery

Family Planning There is no hard, fast rule that you need to have kids before Plastic Surgery (and this really only pertains to breast and body procedures). I would argue that for most procedures, you are going to get more years of benefit in terms of improved self-esteem and confidence by having these procedures done at a younger age rather than waiting till you are older. But, the unavoidable reality is that having kids has a couple of predictable consequences for us and our bodies that bear remembrance– stretching out our abdominal skin and possibly our ab muscles, deflating our breasts, and keeping us really, really busy.

For abdominal procedures, it makes sense to wait until after those little bundles of joy have given us all the stretch marks and loose skin they can before turning around and cutting it all off. Breast procedures are a little trickier. We know that having kids will likely change our breasts but it’s hard to predict just how. Some women get larger, lots of women get smaller, and most of us get a bit saggier. However, my patients who undergo breast procedures before having kids report a high rate of satisfaction even if, after having kids and breastfeeding, their results are a little less great or they need some sort of revision.

March 25, 2025 | 5:11 am