Scheduling my tummy tuck day of c-section!

soylatte

Sorry, I'm bored and that was my bad attempt at April Fool's.

Sdufort1216

lol well I thought it was funny cuz first thing I thought was what a wacko you must be lol good job April fools!

spacepotatoes

Sdufort1216 said:

lol well I thought it was funny cuz first thing I thought was what a wacko you must be lol good job April fools!

Of all the threads to choose from today, you think THIS one is wacko? LOL.

sisterjanet

That's actually a thing.  It's not recommended at all by any reputable doctor as far as I know, but it is a thing.

https://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/c-tucks-genius-idea-scary-trend-174200010.html

(ETA, by all of which I mean, from the thread title this seemed like a legit April Fool's post, or a scary non-April-Fool's post.  Good job OP.)

tbiscuit18

I actually have a friend who had this done during her c-section. I was shocked that this was an actual thing until she told me she'd had it done.

sws684

Good one!!!

sopsongbird

My best friend had a natural birth with her first child and she told the Dr. to add a couple extra stitches!  The nurses laughed but the Dr. was dumbfounded.  She told him, at least my husband will be happy! 

Xath

Definitely a real thing, especially in California. Not a smart thing, but a real thing.

spacepotatoes

sopsongbird said:

My best friend had a natural birth with her first child and she told the Dr. to add a couple extra stitches!  The nurses laughed but the Dr. was dumbfounded.  She told him, at least my husband will be happy! 

Ugh, the Husband Stitch? Really? Way to set us back a few decades, if not centuries, sopsongbird's BFF.

Mamazon2014

My overly weight obsessed grandmother actually asked me if I had a c/s if the doctors could go in and remove my excess skin from my weight loss last year and give me a tummy tuck while they're at it so that way I could look better and thinner.

This is the same woman who shoved food in my hands 24/7 when I was a child and still is insulted if I don't eat while at her house.

Xath

kitchencolors said:

gertiebarden said:

Definitely a real thing, especially in California. Not a smart thing, but a real thing.

I'd venture to guess Florida and perhaps NYC also. 


I made a wisecrack about it with my OB when pregnant with my daughter and he told me it's something he seriously gets asked about frequently. He won't do it, but he told me some awesome horror stories about why he thinks it's the dumbest thing. He said most of the people he's seen who do it end up with horrific lumps of fat as everything shifts around after birth and often have to go in for a second surgery anyway to correct the issues.

Xath

@kitchencolors I think the main complication against it is the fact that all parts of your abdomen shift so drastically after birth that it's really difficult to know what to "tuck" accurately at the time of birth.

spinsoffresonance

kitchencolors said:

Okay so call me a crazy person, but if you're having a c-section ANYWAY and planning to to have a tummy tuck ANYWAY, is it really the most insane crazy ill advised thing in the history of the world to have them done at the same time? 

ETA: And does the answer change if you have a medical condition that requires you to be under general anesthesia for your planned c-section?

It sounds like a terrible idea to me. You have all the extra weight you need to lose, your uterus takes weeks to shrink back to its normal size, so no way they can do a proper tummy tuck under those conditions. Andplusalso I want to spend the time with my new baby, not 1-3 hours in surgery.
That being said I need to have a hysterectomy due to fibroids and my Ob suggested doing it at the same time as my csection to avoid a fourth surgery (myomectomy + 2 c-sections). I'm hoping I still get to do skin-to-skin with LO while they take out my uterus.

sopsongbird

spacepotatoes said:

sopsongbird said:

My best friend had a natural birth with her first child and she told the Dr. to add a couple extra stitches!  The nurses laughed but the Dr. was dumbfounded.  She told him, at least my husband will be happy! 

Ugh, the Husband Stitch? Really? Way to set us back a few decades, if not centuries, sopsongbird's BFF.


Now I feel dumb...that's actually got a name?! Wow...

awisern

This is a legit thing in Colorado with a specific doctor...however, you have to be severely obese and fit the criteria of his study. He has had great results of better healing with the csection when the extra fat and skin is removed at the same time. Less complications such as the incision dehissing etc.

hatrats

sopsongbird said:

My best friend had a natural birth with her first child and she told the Dr. to add a couple extra stitches!  The nurses laughed but the Dr. was dumbfounded.  She told him, at least my husband will be happy! 

After a particularly graphic STD/birth video we had to watch in 9th grade (Catholic school birth control), I was telling my parents about this one scene where they had to cut the woman's vag to get the baby out (I had no idea at the time that it was a common thing).  Mom says, "Well, actually you have seen that before..."  While still in horror from this revelation, my dad, classy as can be, adds, "Yeah, I told him, 'Be sure to stitch her up tight doc!!!'"

I fled the dining room screaming AUGHHH GROSSSSS with my hands over my ears.

IBackBevo

Judge me if you will, but I asked my OB about the tummy tuck/c-section (might as well get some advantage out of having to have a c/s) and she basically laughed at me.  I think it is an urban myth.  Damn shame.

jenb_99

awisern said:

This is a legit thing in Colorado with a specific doctor...however, you have to be severely obese and fit the criteria of his study. He has had great results of better healing with the csection when the extra fat and skin is removed at the same time. Less complications such as the incision dehissing etc.

Huh. I'm obese and I actually felt like my extra fluff helped my recovery. My skinny friends all complained about their clothes rubbing their stitches and staples, but I had a lovely flap of flab covering mine so the incision healed undisturbed. It took some extra effort to keep the area dry (I often accomplished this by taping a soft washcloth against the area), but otherwise recovery was a breeze.