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writes:please help me.i have a serious situation.i was pregnant in 2004 and gave birth 2 a beautiful baby girl.when i was pregnant my belly grew so much that it literaly dropped i was pregnant for 44 weeks which means i was pregnant for 10mths i had a ceasarian section i lost all the pregnancy weight through hardwork and exersize but i have excess skin i have been doing weight training for the past 2yrs its not helping i dont know what else i wrote to doctors here in south africa but no one wants to help cause i dont have money is there anyone out there willing to help me i live in south africa in pretoria please help surgery was not my first option but im willing to get this problem solved in whatever way i just want to wear a dress please help me .
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reader, anonymous, writes (26 April 2008): I have the same thing.. It will never go away without a tummy tuck but with a tummy tuck you get a huge long nasty scar from hip to hip so I would not want that. Doesn't your partner accept your body? You got it from giving birth after all . You can still wear dresses, just find ones that flatter your body type. Im sure you are more beautiful than you know. Be proud of your body. You gave life!!!
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reader, anonymous, writes (26 April 2008): Hi Sweetiem regardless of what anyone tells you unfortunately this common problem cannot be solved with excercise.....
No matter how much training or excercise you do you will only succeed in strenthening and toing the underlying muscle....the skin is like elastic and when we are pregnant many of us get what is the same as 'snapped elastic...
I have been through the same thing and it is one if the least understood and common effects of pregnancy...some ignorant people think it is about excercise or weight when it is more about genetics, skin type and pregnancy..
You have two choices really...a tummy tuck (where they remove the stretched skin) or acceptance.
I opted for a tummy tuck after many years of not accepting myself....and to be honest I regret my decision...I feel almost as though I have cheated myself of my true body..after all I am a mother of four...why shouldnt I be proud of my mothers body???any man who has a problem with it isnt worth it anyway...beside I also now have a scar from hip to hip...so for me personally it wasnt worth it...I dont know whether you might feel differently bt I would honestly urge you to look deep within before taking the drastic measures I did...it hasnt improved my life one little bit
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