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I have thought about having a tummy tuck, since I had my daughter. I had a ceserean section, and I have some loose skin, where the doctor removed my 8 lb 12 oz baby. I asked my doctor what exercises I could do to tighten my skin back up. He told me that there were none, the only way to do that would be to have a tummy tuck.
I feel that a tummy tuck is a drastic and very expensive surgery. While I would love to have my prepregnancy body back, I don't know that I would be willing to put the financial strain or the risk of something going wrong while on the operating table on my family.
During my pregnancy I was on a strict diabetic diet and only gained 25 pounds. I was back to prepregnancy weight within a month. I have dieted and exercised and put a lot of hard work into my plan, without being able to do anything about the skin. It was very frustrating to hear my doctor say that without surgery there was nothing I could do to get my tummy to look as it did before. The way he explained it to me was that your skin is like a balloon, when you inflate then deflate a balloon, it doesn't look the same, the shape is always a little different. That just goes to show that sometimes diet and exercise aren't enough.

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