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Procedure guide · Post-Weight-Loss & Combination Surgery
Extended Mommy MakeoverAn extended mommy makeover adds areas such as the arms, thighs, back or buttocks to the standard abdomen and breast combination. The limiting factor is not technique but operating time: clotting, hypothermia and blood loss risks climb steeply past 4 to 6 hours, so much of what is advertised as a single extended operation is safer as two. Some surgeons decline these plans outright.
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€3,500$3,910£2,920
Typical range: €3,500$3,910£2,920€4,500$5,020£3,750
Turkey · 1 clinic
Also known as: Full body mommy makeover, Total mommy makeover, Extended post-pregnancy surgery, Multi-area mommy makeover
How prices compare
Typical all-inclusive package prices from verified clinics, set against what the same procedure costs at home.
1 clinic
€3,500$3,910£2,920€4,500$5,020£3,750
United Kingdom
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026.
€19,180$21,420£16,000€35,960$40,150£30,000
United States
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to United States by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€20,690$23,100£17,260€38,780$43,300£32,350
Germany
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Germany by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€16,400$18,310£13,680€30,700$34,280£25,610
France
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to France by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€16,700$18,650£13,930€31,300$34,950£26,110
Netherlands
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Netherlands by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€17,500$19,540£14,600€32,800$36,620£27,360
Italy
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Italy by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€14,700$16,410£12,260€27,500$30,700£22,940
Spain
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Spain by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€13,900$15,520£11,590€26,000$29,030£21,690
Ireland
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Ireland by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€20,600$23,000£17,180€38,600$43,100£32,200
Switzerland
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Switzerland by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€26,580$29,670£22,170€49,870$55,680£41,600
Austria
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Austria by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€17,100$19,090£14,260€32,100$35,840£26,780
Belgium
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Belgium by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€17,600$19,650£14,680€33,000$36,840£27,530
Sweden
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Sweden by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€18,300$20,430£15,260€34,300$38,300£28,610
Norway
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Norway by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€19,500$21,770£16,270€36,500$40,750£30,450
Denmark
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Denmark by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€21,100$23,560£17,600€39,600$44,210£33,030
Bulgaria
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Bulgaria by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€9,450$10,550£7,880€17,700$19,760£14,760
Croatia
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Croatia by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€11,900$13,290£9,930€22,200$24,790£18,520
Cyprus
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Cyprus by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€13,500$15,070£11,260€25,300$28,250£21,100
Czechia
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Czechia by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€13,500$15,070£11,260€25,400$28,360£21,190
Estonia
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Estonia by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€15,300$17,080£12,760€28,700$32,040£23,940
Finland
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Finland by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€18,300$20,430£15,260€34,300$38,300£28,610
Greece
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Greece by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€13,200$14,740£11,010€24,800$27,690£20,690
Hungary
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Hungary by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€11,700$13,060£9,760€22,000$24,560£18,350
Iceland
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Iceland by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€26,200$29,250£21,850€49,200$54,930£41,040
Latvia
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Latvia by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€12,600$14,070£10,510€23,600$26,350£19,690
Lithuania
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Lithuania by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€12,500$13,960£10,430€23,500$26,240£19,600
Luxembourg
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Luxembourg by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€19,900$22,220£16,600€37,300$41,650£31,110
Malta
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Malta by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€13,900$15,520£11,590€26,100$29,140£21,770
Poland
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Poland by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€11,100$12,390£9,260€20,800$23,220£17,350
Portugal
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Portugal by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€13,100$14,630£10,930€24,600$27,470£20,520
Romania
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Romania by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€9,850$11,000£8,220€18,500$20,660£15,430
Slovakia
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Slovakia by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€12,900$14,400£10,760€24,200$27,020£20,190
Slovenia
Estimated from the mummy makeover in the Centre for Surgery published price list, 2026, scaled to Slovenia by Eurostat, price level indices (tec00120), household final consumption, 2025, converted at rates of 2026-09-23.
€13,500$15,070£11,260€25,300$28,250£21,100
About 85% less than United Kingdom
About 87% less than United States
About 83% less than Germany
About 83% less than France
About 84% less than Netherlands
About 81% less than Italy
About 80% less than Spain
About 86% less than Ireland
About 90% less than Switzerland
About 84% less than Austria
About 84% less than Belgium
About 85% less than Sweden
About 86% less than Norway
About 87% less than Denmark
About 71% less than Bulgaria
About 77% less than Croatia
About 79% less than Cyprus
About 79% less than Czechia
About 82% less than Estonia
About 85% less than Finland
About 79% less than Greece
About 76% less than Hungary
About 89% less than Iceland
About 78% less than Latvia
About 78% less than Lithuania
About 86% less than Luxembourg
About 80% less than Malta
About 75% less than Poland
About 79% less than Portugal
About 72% less than Romania
About 78% less than Slovakia
About 79% less than Slovenia
Turkey: €3,500$3,910£2,920 – €4,500$5,020£3,750
Prices are indicative ranges collected from clinics and verified periodically. Your final price follows a personal consultation.
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€3,500$3,910£2,920
An extended mommy makeover in Turkey adds to the usual combination of a tummy tuck and breast surgery: typically an extended abdominal incision reaching round the flanks, liposuction of several areas, and sometimes arm, thigh or buttock work. It takes four to seven hours under general anaesthesia with two to four nights in hospital and fourteen to twenty-one days in the country. The word extended describes a longer operation as much as a longer incision, and the honest question is not what it costs but whether the whole list should happen in one anaesthetic.
An extended mommy makeover is the point in this category where the interesting question stops being surgical and becomes one of anaesthetic safety. Every operation involved, a tummy tuck, a breast lift, an arm lift, flank liposuction, is routine on its own and performed thousands of times a year. Doing three or four of them consecutively on one patient under a single anaesthetic is a different proposition, and the reason has nothing to do with how skilled the surgeon is.
A body tolerates being anaesthetised, opened, cooled and held still for a limited period, and past that period the complication curve turns upward rather than continuing flat. Three mechanisms drive it. Clotting: time on the table, immobility and the inflammatory response to large surgery all push in the same direction, and a clot reaching the lung is the commonest cause of death after cosmetic surgery. Hypothermia: large exposed areas over several hours cool a patient, and a cold patient clots poorly, heals poorly and wakes badly. And blood loss, which accumulates quietly across several large excisions until it needs replacing. None of those improves with surgical skill. All of them improve with a shorter operation.
What that means in practice is that an extended plan usually amounts to the standard abdomen and breast combination plus one additional area, rather than everything a patient would like addressed. Flank and back liposuction is the commonest addition because it adds relatively little time. An arm lift is next. Thigh lifts are added least willingly, because inner thigh wounds sit in a moist mobile crease and are the most troublesome in the field to heal, so adding one to an already long operation compounds two problems at once.
There is a genuine technical answer to the time problem where a hospital can provide it. Two surgical teams working simultaneously on different areas substantially shortens the total anaesthetic, which directly reduces the clotting and hypothermia risks. It does not reduce blood loss or the total fluid shifts, and it needs a well-staffed hospital and costs more, but where it is available it is a real solution rather than a marketing line. It is worth asking about specifically for a large plan.
The most useful question to ask a surgeon about an extended plan is not what they can do but what they will not do. A surgeon with a stated cap, who proposes splitting the plan across two sessions, and who raises warming, compression and clot prophylaxis without being prompted, is managing the risk. A clinic that accepts any combination requested, particularly from a patient who has flown in with 1 week available, is selling convenience at the patient’s expense. Some surgeons decline extended plans entirely, and that is a defensible clinical position rather than a lack of ability.
The pressure toward long operations is worth naming honestly, because it usually comes from the patient rather than the surgeon. Travelling twice costs more, means more time off work and more childcare, and wanting to avoid it is entirely reasonable. That is exactly the incentive that makes overlong operations attractive to sell, and recognising it in yourself before the consultation is the most useful preparation you can do.
Recovery is where extended plans differ most from what patients imagine, and it is cumulative rather than additive. Each treated area removes a movement: the abdomen stops you standing straight, the breasts stop you reaching, an arm lift stops you pushing up out of a chair, a thigh lift makes sitting and walking uncomfortable. Any one is manageable. Three together can leave someone genuinely unable to look after themselves for the first week, which is why 2 weeks of real help at home is a minimum rather than a precaution.
The practical details follow from the scale. Several drains, coming out at different times as each site settles across a week or more. Compression garments on every treated area, day and night, for around 6 weeks. Flying not cleared until around day 12 because the drains finish at different times. Desk work at around 4 weeks rather than 3. And a result that appears unevenly, because each zone resolves its swelling on its own schedule and symmetry frequently improves late.
Two things a good anaesthetic team will raise, and that patients almost never hear about, are worth knowing by name. The first is a Caprini score, a formal way of adding up your individual clotting risk from factors including age, BMI, hormone use, previous clots and the planned length of the operation. A surgeon who uses one is quantifying the risk rather than estimating it, and the score determines whether you need blood-thinning injections alongside stockings and calf pumps. The second is active warming: warming mattresses, forced-air blankets and warmed intravenous fluids, used because large exposed areas over several hours cool a patient, and a cold patient clots poorly and heals poorly. Hearing either mentioned unprompted is a good sign.
A useful test of whether a plan is too large is simply arithmetic. Ask the surgeon for their own time estimate for each component, add them up, and compare the total against the cap they have stated. If the plan only fits by assuming every part goes quickly and nothing is unexpected, it does not fit. A second test is comparative: if you consult three surgeons and two recommend splitting the plan while one agrees to do everything at once, the outlier has not found a better technique. They have accepted a risk the others declined, and it is your risk rather than theirs.
Surgeons look for these points at the consultation.
An extended mommy makeover suits healthy women with a completed family and stable weight whose plan can be delivered inside a safe operating time, who are assessed as low risk for clotting, who do not smoke, and who accept that a surgeon may reduce the plan or split it into two operations.
Reasons a good surgeon will ask you to wait or choose something else.
An extended mommy makeover is avoided in anyone with previous clots or a clotting disorder, in smokers, in significant heart or lung disease, in obesity where anaesthetic risk is already raised, in anaemia that has not been corrected, in poorly controlled diabetes, and wherever the proposed plan exceeds what the surgeon and anaesthetist consider a safe operating time.
Ask your surgeon which technique they recommend for you and why.
The standard combination plus a single additional area, usually flank liposuction, an arm lift or a back excision, kept within a defined time limit.
Abdomen and breasts in the first operation, arms, thighs or back 3 to 6 months later once the first areas have settled.
Two surgical teams work on different areas simultaneously to shorten the total anaesthetic time for a large plan.
Treating the abdomen and breasts only, and reassessing the arms or thighs after the first result has settled.
Step by step, from arrival to discharge.
Planning an extended mommy makeover starts with examining every area you want treated and deciding which can be combined safely, which should wait, and what the realistic operating time is.
A formal review of fitness for a long anaesthetic, clotting risk factors including hormonal contraception, and any anaemia that needs correcting first.
Where the plan exceeds a safe session, it is divided into two, with the sequence and the interval agreed in writing rather than left open.
General anaesthesia with active warming, compression devices and clot prophylaxis. Areas grouped by operating position to avoid repositioning under anaesthetic.
One or two drains per treated area, removed at different times as each site settles. Compression garments fitted to every area before discharge.
Wound checks across all sites in the first fortnight, seroma drained where it collects, and review at 3 months once the areas have begun settling.
Frequencies follow published guidance; your personal risk depends on your health and the surgeon.
An extended mommy makeover is the point in this category where the interesting question stops being surgical and becomes one of anaesthetic safety. Every individual operation involved is routine. Doing four of them consecutively on one patient under one anaesthetic is not, and the reason has nothing to do with the surgeon’s technical ability. It is that a body tolerates being anaesthetised, opened, cooled and kept still for only so long, and past that point the complication curve turns upward sharply.
Clotting is the specific danger. Time on the table, immobility, and the inflammation that large surgery produces all push in the same direction, and a clot that reaches the lung is the commonest cause of death after cosmetic surgery. Hypothermia is the second: large exposed areas over several hours cool a patient, and a cold patient clots poorly, heals poorly and wakes badly. Blood loss is the third, and across several large excisions it accumulates quietly until it needs transfusion.
This is why the most important thing to ask a surgeon about an extended plan is not what they can do but what they will not do. A surgeon with a stated cap, who proposes splitting your plan into two operations, who mentions compression and chemical prophylaxis and warming without being prompted, is managing the risk. A clinic that accepts any combination a patient requests, particularly one who has flown in and has a single week available, is selling convenience at your expense.
The pressure in this direction is real and worth naming. Travelling twice costs more, means more time off work and more childcare, and patients reasonably want to avoid it. That is exactly the incentive that makes overlong operations attractive to sell. Recognising it in yourself is the most useful preparation for the consultation.
Recovering from several areas at once is considerably harder than from one, with more pain, less mobility and a longer period needing help at home.
Long operations across large exposed areas cool the body and move large volumes of fluid, which affects heart function, clotting and wound healing.
Fluid collecting under more than one treated area, with multiple drains and more sites that may need drainage in clinic afterwards.
More long wounds means more opportunity for one to open, particularly in the groin, armpit and inner thigh where scars cross mobile creases.
The defining risk of an extended mommy makeover. Longer operations mean longer immobility and greater risk of a clot in the leg or lung, which is the complication that can be fatal.
Multiple large areas treated together can lose enough blood to need transfusion, which is one reason a hospital with a blood bank matters.
Where a surgeon is working against the clock to fit everything into one session, the last areas treated can receive less care than the first.
Recovering from an extended mommy makeover is not the same as recovering from a standard one with a bit extra. It is cumulatively harder in a way patients consistently underestimate, because every treated area restricts something. The abdomen stops you standing straight, the breasts stop you reaching, an arm lift stops you pushing up out of a chair, and a thigh lift makes sitting and walking uncomfortable. Together they can leave someone genuinely unable to manage alone for the first week.
That makes help at home the single most important thing to arrange, and to arrange properly rather than optimistically. 2 weeks of real assistance is a realistic minimum for a large plan, and for women with young children it needs to cover lifting entirely, because nothing heavier than a kettle is permitted for around 6 weeks.
Multiple drains are usual and they come out at different times as each site settles, so the process is staggered over a week or more rather than finished in one appointment. Compression garments are worn on every treated area day and night for around 6 weeks. Walking from the first day remains the main defence against clots and matters more here than anywhere else in this category.
Expect the areas to heal at different rates and the overall picture to look uneven for months. Swelling resolves on its own timetable in each zone, scars mature over a year, and symmetry frequently improves late. Judging an extended result before 6 months is not useful and judging it at 6 weeks is actively misleading.
Days 1-4
Usually 2 nights in hospital with several drains. Walking the same day despite multiple sore areas. Substantial help needed with everything for the first days.
Days 5-14
Drains come out as output falls at each site, often over several days. Garments on all treated areas day and night. Flying usually cleared at around day 12.
Weeks 3-6
Desk work at around 4 weeks rather than 3, because recovering from several areas is cumulatively harder. No lifting or exercise. Seroma may appear at more than one site.
Months 2-4
Swelling settles across the treated areas at different rates. Scars are red and at their worst around 3 months. Light exercise resumes once cleared.
Months 6-18
Scars flatten and fade over a year or more. Areas treated at the same time frequently settle at different speeds, so symmetry improves late.
An extended result appears unevenly and late. Each treated area resolves its swelling on its own schedule, so the overall picture looks mismatched for months, and symmetry between zones frequently improves well after the individual areas have settled.
Where the plan was sized correctly, satisfaction is high and the appeal is obvious: one anaesthetic, one recovery period and one trip rather than several. That is a genuine benefit and it is why patients want these plans.
Where a plan was oversized, the problems are not usually dramatic complications but quieter ones: more seroma across more sites, a wound that opens somewhere, a longer and harder recovery than expected, and occasionally areas treated at the end of a long list receiving less care than those at the start.
Scars are permanent across every treated area and mature over a year. The cumulative scar burden of an extended plan is substantially more than patients picture from a single operation, which is worth seeing in photographs at 12 months before committing.
Extended mommy makeover packages vary so much in content that headline prices are close to meaningless. The prices shown on this site come from verified clinic records for each named operation rather than for a package, so you can see what each additional area actually contributes.
The cost that is almost always missing is the second session. Where a surgeon splits a plan, as many will, the total becomes two operations, two hospital stays and, for a travelling patient, two trips. Asking what a second session would cost before booking the first turns an unpleasant surprise into a budget.
The other underestimated cost is help at home. An extended plan can leave someone unable to dress, reach or get out of a chair unaided for the first week, and 2 weeks of genuine assistance is a minimum rather than a precaution. For most patients that is a real expense and it belongs in the calculation.
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€3,500$3,910£2,920
Typical range: €3,500$3,910£2,920€4,500$5,020£3,750
Prices for extended mommy makeover come from written quotes we hold on file, compared across 1 clinic in 1 destination. The full breakdown shows what each package covers and how it compares with having it done at home.
Why quotes for the same procedure differ, so you can compare packages fairly.
Options to weigh before deciding, surgical and non-surgical.
Abdomen and breasts only, which fits comfortably inside a safe operating time and is enough for many women once swelling has settled.
The same total surgery delivered across two operations a few months apart, which is lower risk and frequently the surgeon’s recommendation.
Usually flank and back liposuction, which adds relatively little operating time and gives much of the silhouette change patients are after.
Where the plan is genuinely large, treating it as a post-weight-loss contouring programme with a proper sequence rather than as one extended operation.
Treating the abdomen and breasts, then deciding about arms or thighs once swelling has resolved. Some areas look different once the trunk has changed.
Ask the same questions at every consultation so you can compare answers.
An extended mommy makeover is capped by most careful surgeons at around 4 to 6 hours, which in practice usually means the abdomen, the breasts and one additional area rather than everything on a list.
The limit comes from the anaesthetic rather than the surgery. Clotting, hypothermia and blood loss risks climb steeply past that window, and no amount of surgical skill changes that curve.
Surgeons refuse an extended mommy makeover because the risk is not justified by the convenience, which is a defensible clinical position rather than a lack of ability. Every operation involved is routine; doing all of them consecutively is not.
A surgeon who declines and explains why, and who offers to split the plan into two sessions, is giving you better care than one who agrees to everything. The second is easier to book and harder to recover from.
Usually yes in the quoted price, because one anaesthetic, one hospital admission and one trip cost less than two. That saving is real and it is the main reason patients ask for extended plans.
It is also the reason to examine your own motivation carefully. If the plan is being extended to avoid a second flight rather than because it is safe, the saving is being taken out of your safety margin.
Two teams shorten an extended mommy makeover by working on two areas at once, which genuinely reduces the clotting and hypothermia risk that comes from a long operation.
It does not reduce blood loss or the total fluid shifts, and it needs a hospital staffed to provide two full teams, so it costs more. Where it is available it is a real solution rather than a marketing line.
An extended mommy makeover most often adds flank and back liposuction, because it costs relatively little operating time. Arm lifts are next. Thigh lifts are added least willingly, because inner thigh wounds are the most troublesome to heal.
A surgeon who is selective about which area to add, rather than treating them as interchangeable, is thinking about time and healing rather than about the length of the invoice.
An extended mommy makeover needs around 4 weeks before desk work rather than 3, and 8 weeks before anything physical. The cumulative effect of several treated areas makes it considerably harder than a standard makeover.
Plan 2 weeks of real help at home as a minimum. Every area restricts a different movement, and together they can leave someone unable to manage alone for the first week.
Several, usually one or two per treated area, and they come out at different times as each site settles rather than all at once. The process is staggered across a week or more.
That is one reason flying is not cleared until around day 12 for an extended plan. Leaving before drains are out means managing them yourself in an airport and a hotel.
An extended mommy makeover raises clotting risk, and your own risk sits on top of that. Previous clots, a family history, the combined pill, hormone therapy, obesity and smoking all add to it, and any of them should be declared.
Expect compression stockings, calf pumps, early walking and possibly blood-thinning injections. A surgeon who does not raise clotting prevention for an operation of this length has not thought about the main risk.
Many surgeons ask you to stop the combined pill 4 weeks before an extended mommy makeover, because oestrogen raises clotting risk and this is the operation where that matters most.
Arrange alternative contraception if you do, since pregnancy shortly after would undo the abdominal result. Do not stop any prescribed medication without asking the surgeon and your own doctor.
A good surgeon stops an extended mommy makeover that is running long. Finishing what has been started safely and leaving a planned area for another day is the correct decision, and it should be discussed with you as a possibility beforehand.
Ask at the consultation what happens if the operation is taking longer than expected. A surgeon who has an answer has planned for it; one who is confident it will not happen has not.
Prices on this site come from verified clinic records for each named operation rather than for a package, because extended packages vary so widely in content that headline figures are not comparable.
Ask for every component itemised, including the second hospital night, the extra drains and garments, and what a second session would cost if the plan is split. That last figure is the one most often missing.
Choose a surgeon for an extended mommy makeover who states a cap on operating time, works in a hospital with overnight nursing and access to transfusion, and is willing to tell you your plan needs splitting.
Ask what they would refuse to combine, how they manage clotting and warming, and what happens if the operation overruns. The answers to those three questions tell you more than any gallery of photographs.
A Caprini score, used before an extended mommy makeover, estimates your individual risk of a blood clot by adding up factors such as age, BMI, hormone use, previous clots, cancer history and the length of the planned operation.
A surgeon who uses one is quantifying the risk rather than guessing at it, and the score determines whether you need blood-thinning injections as well as stockings and calf pumps. It is a reasonable thing to ask about for a long operation.
Temperature matters during an extended mommy makeover because a cold patient clots poorly, heals poorly and wakes badly. Large areas of exposed skin over several hours lose heat rapidly, and hypothermia during long operations is a recognised cause of complications.
Warming mattresses, forced-air blankets and warmed intravenous fluids all counter it. A surgeon or anaesthetist who mentions active warming unprompted for a long plan has thought about something many patients never hear about.
Adding a BBL to an extended mommy makeover substantially increases the operating time and the complexity, since it requires harvesting, processing and grafting fat as well as everything else, and gluteal fat grafting carries its own specific safety requirements.
Many surgeons will not combine it with a full mommy makeover for exactly that reason. Where it is wanted, staging it as its own operation is usually the safer route, and a surgeon who says so is being careful rather than unhelpful.
Add up the surgeon’s own time estimates for each component and compare the total with their stated cap. If the plan only fits by assuming everything goes quickly, it is too big.
Another useful test is whether any surgeon you consult has suggested splitting it. If two out of three recommend two sessions and one agrees to do it all at once, the outlier is not the one who has found a better way.
American Society of Plastic Surgeons2024Professional society
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence2019Clinical guideline
American Society of Plastic Surgeons2024Professional society
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