12 weeks post op

It has been 12 weeks since my Mommy Makeover. For those new to my blog, On February 3rd I had a abdominoplasty (tummy tuck), abdominal muscle repair,liposuction to the flanks, full anchor lift to my breast and switched out my saline implants to silicone implants (high profile).

If you want to some what get into my head and find out my reasoning for choosing to undergo these surgeries - please click through this link A Mother's Secret. I wrote a guest post for Scary Mommy and her society.

I can not be any happier with my recovery and the results. I am pretty much back to 100% in all aspects of my life. I am just as strong as I was prior to surgery now, in fact stronger now because my abdominal muscles are all actually working together. Within in the last week or so, my ab muslces have relaxed and they do not stay contracted all day like they used to. I started doing ab work about 2 weeks ago. Just simple crunches on the ball and some weighted. It feels really great. The only thing that still lingers is swelling. It is not horrible but still happens and can be uncomfortable by the end of the day. The area the lipo was performed on (flanks:love handles) remains pretty tender (not painful) and will start swelling by around 3pm. Sometimes I wake up with swelling in those spots. This week especially.

 I recently have taken up the sport of Roller Derby. Practice is a few nights a week and I am having a hard time adjusting to the late night workouts. My swelling is ridiculous after 2 hours of ass busting skating. Typically I can put my binder and pads on when I got to bed and I wake up with a nice flat belly and hips but this week the swelling has followed me day and night. I am sure it is my body somewhat freaking out about the derby practices. Keep in mind I am not experiencing any unusual pain due to the surgery and/or practice. Just uncomfortable and the normal amount of soreness you would expect when asking your body to do what I have asked it to do the last couple weeks.

I snapped a few pics this morning and would like to share them with you all.



ok this was taken about 3 days before The Baby was born - January 17th,2010. Look at my belly, I was a BEAST!




12 weeks post op - See the swelling around my sides.




This is my right side. The scarring has healed so nicely. Its a but red but very flat. The point where the scar ends is still numb.




This is unbelievable to me. I am not sucking in at all. NOTHING hangs over. No muffin top.



BAM!

So there you have it. Everything healing well. I am very happy with the results and would do it all over again in a heartbeat. If you are considering having a Mommy Makeover or any type of Plastic Surgery then by all means please go see Dr. Obaid at North Texas Plastic Surgery. I think him and his entire staff are just fabulous.

Stay wild my friends :)

Tutus are for Bad Asses

I know today should be Funny Friday and I should be putting up a story submitted by one of ya’ll but not today. I will get back to that next week.
I have several of you that have been inquiring about my recovery since I had a “Mommy Makeover” in February. I need to post some updated pics of it all, I will put some up next week.

My recovery is AWESOME – I am 10 weeks out and pretty much back to doing everything I was prior to surgery AND MORE. The scars are healing very nicely and get a little red once in a while but they have remained very flat and thin. It is just about bikini time and every bikini I know own does not hide the scar. I am cool with that. It is noticeable but it does not bother me as much as the 5 pregnancy belly hangover I once had. You gotta give a little to get a little. I was given release to get my tattoo fixed where it had been cut during surgery but I am not quite ready to have the scar poked and prodded on with a needle for what will most likely take 6-8 hours. I might just wait till this fall.

My workouts are back to full force and I have started working abs in just the past week or so. The sewing together of those ab muscles is a very weird feeling. Not painful, just tight. It all feels different when I perform concentrated ab movements. It probably feels the way it is supposed to but I just haven’t felt that in such a long time. I can feel each and every abdominal muscle work together when I even do just a simple crunch. It tightens from right under my sternum to the top of my lady parts and all the way around to my back. Pretty cool. The weirdest sensation is behind and around my belly button. I can feel every point that it was reconnected back into my body. Again, no pain just tight and somewhat numb.

My flanks where I had lipo done still swell and go numb by about 4pm. The swelling has gotten better but it still happens. I still wear my binder and the foam pads at night. I don’t have to but it really helps with the swelling and is a big source of comfort when I go to sleep. I don’t wear the binder at all during the day unless I am working on heavy leg day then I put it on for just the workout.

I did try and do my favorite Plyometric move – the “Frog hop” but that was a no go. I can’t take the impact of the landing yet. It feels like my scar line is going to just split wide open.

Over all my recovery has went as smooth as it could have gone. I actually went to my first  Roller Derby practice this week and made it out alive. Don’t go crazy on me, I got a complete physical release from my  Doctor of Miracles prior to it. I think I did pretty well. I did have to put my binder on about 30 minutes into practice but other than that everything went well. It was a lot of fun and I met some really awesome ladies. I am pretty sure I found my new hobby.

In fact I received some very valuable advice from the Captain of one of the Derby Teams:

“If you wear a tutu, you better be a BADASS, bringing you’re A+ game. Or else, you just look like a clown.”



And that is why I will not be wearing a tutu – at least not yet…

Useful Calling cards

Every once in a while I run across a friend or acquaintance that hands me a "Mommy" calling card. It has her name and contact information on it along with cutesy flowers or happy faces. It's cool, I guess. Not a bad way to get your information to someone. I actually have some that I got made for my blog, they are cute and they were free. I am not sure I would pay for them though.

These on the other hand I would pay for.





I call this the Anti-calling card





my favorite




because there is always an AHOLE in the group



The truth about Mother's Day

**WARNING** The honesty in the words written below might piss you off. This post might reveal your dirty little secret about what you really want for Mother’s Day. This post might make you feel like a bad mom, selfish and ungrateful.


If it does then GET OVER IT! It is time we take a stand, come clean about what we would really like for Mother’s day.

Join hands, Hold our heads up high and Scream:

We do not want BREAKFAST in BED

We do not want FLOWERS

We do not want to spend the day doing any sort of family activity

What we want is for you (fathers) to take the children and get the hell out of our faces.

Seriously >>> LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE

Better yet – GET US OUT OF THE HOUSE

Book a room at a hotel and send us there with a few other moms.

It is Mother’s day right? Not “Let me be a Mother some more” Mother’s Day

Maybe it should be named “Keep these kids away from me this day because I am pretty sure that you will not be dragging the kids to the golf course on FATHER’S day DAY”

That actually might be too long to fit on a calendar but you totally get the meaning.

The other thing that would be great is to come home after The most Perfect “not your mother” Mother’s Day and the house be in one piece. Each room cleaned, kids fed, laundry done, teeth brushed, homework finished.

Don’t hide behind your Mother Guilt any longer.

When asked “What would you like for Mother’s Day?”

Answer “A big hug, a sloppy Kiss and a hotel key card.”

From Fat to Fit and everything in between

Today, I would like to share a little story about my friend Mama Laughlin. I came to know this beautiful woman a few years ago and she is such an amazing person. She is a mother to one handsome little 19 month old and just recently found out she is pregnant with #2.

Her journey through a pregnancy that packed on the pounds to where she is now is simply inspiring.

Enjoy...

Isn't being a woman great?

Let me explain- I am a mother of 1, soon to be 2.


After my son was born on 09.09.09 (I know, cool) I managed to lose 60 lbs. That's not including the 19 I had already lost just by birthing him.


I didn't gain a crazy amount of weight with my pregnancy, only 31 lbs. But sitting at 186 lbs. PRE-pregnancy on my 5'6 frame, I was clearly overweight.


So yes, your math serves you correct and that made me 217 lbs. at delivery.


FUN!

 I did not live a healthy lifestyle before getting pregnant. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't addicted to drugs or in any way hurting my baby, I had just been neglecting my body.


Feeding it with crap food and sitting on my fat, swollen ass.


So why would I all of a sudden start eating healthy now that I was pregnant? NO WAY! The way I looked at it was pregnancy was a reason for me to stuff my face. And that I did.


I had ice cream every night before bed, I drank cokes, I ate fast food for lunch every day, HEALTHY was not in my vocabulary. I also got in zero movement.


The most I moved was to the kitchen to get something to eat!

 So after I kicked and screamed and sweated my way back to 140 lbs. in a year's time I decided I wasn't going to do that again when the time came for baby number 2.


Well it's that time.


I now have a 19 month old and am pregnant again.


Losing that weight the first time was one of things I'm most proud of in my life. I did it the right way, the healthy way. And it paid off.


Pre-pregnancy this time, I sat at around 145 lbs. So with this pregnancy it is crazy to think that I won't even get up to my PRE-pregnancy weight last time(186) at my heaviest.


At least, I hope not! My goal this time is to only gain 25-30 lbs.

 With this pregnancy I will continue to workout. I take a cardio/strength training class two times a week now and plan to start Zumba afterward. I also walk/run a few times a week.


I am planning to stay active right up until D-day (delivery day) this go round. Which by the way is 11.17.11 (we're hoping for an 11.11.11 baby because we have an obsession with cool dates!)

 As far as food goes, before I got pregnant I was lean eating, thanks to Anna.


I was trying to tone up and was eating no carbs or sugar. It was intense. Obviously, I can't eat like that now, so I've incorporated carbs (and some sugar) back into my diet.


I do give in to cravings every now and then, but I don't go overboard like I did last time.


I'll have ONE Reeses instead of 6 now, or an individual small ice cream instead of a gallon.


It's all about moderation.


I have given up caffeine so I'm drinking much more water (and peeing way too many times to count).
I really do believe that staying active this time will make it that much easier to lose the baby weight.


Did you know that research shows that if you workout during pregnancy you don't gain that extra 7 lbs? I'm sure hoping that applies to me this time!

I'm keeping track of my pregnancy on my blog and talking all things fitness/health while pregnant with #2, so come watch me pack on the pounds and gear up to lose it all...again


Mama Laughlin

Funny Friday

Today will be the begining of Funny Friday here at Mom of Wild Ones. So many humorous things happen when you are neck deep in diapers, desitin and dirty laundry.

Today's funny comes from NHance. She (like me) is the mother to 5 children. from the age of 11yrs to 8 months. 2 boys and 3 girls.

Tight Asses and Christmas Ornaments...

You may be wondering what the two have in common? Right? Well, let. me. tell. you. My 4th child, who we shall call, Capt' destruct'o, is not a bratty child.. but she is a BUSY child. Walk around my house and you will not find a wall, or a door, that does not have some kind of signature marking of this beautiful "spirited" child. There is not a day that goes by that she doesn't do something that makes me want to cry, and also something that makes my heart smile big. Love her. I have many funny stories about her, but I'll get back to sharing what Christmas ornaments and tight ass's have in common.




I was doing one of the many chores in my house that is endless in a house with 5 children, dishes. It's a chore that is NEVER "done".. I hate doing dishes. The tv was on, children running wild, and I was trying to ignore them all with my hands submerged in warm soapy water scrubbing a pot. Suddenly, I felt two cold little hands grab my waist band and begin to pull my pants down. I laughed and told her to quit it and tried to wiggle my hips around enough to get her to let go. Before I could get her to let go without having to wash the soap off my hands and put the pot down, I felt her jab something into my butt crack. Yes... apparently, my butt crack was the PERFECT place to hide a christmas ornament hook. AH, motherhood.






SO.. when we are working out at 5 am, and Anna tells us to squeeze our butt cheeks together like we're trying to hold a dollar bill in... I always giggle and think "or a christmas ornament".






So spill it ladies... am I REALLY the only one who has ever had a child try to stick something in her butt crack?
 
 
 
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Time is running out...

Last week The Boy got his drivers license, yesterday I finally let him drive to school alone. I nearly had a panic attack as I drove to work thinking about him driving alone to school.
(Go here to catch up on the drivers ED journey Drivers ED)

He did fine yesterday and he so far has done fine today. School is a whole 2 miles from our house.

I just can not believe he is already driving. Time has went by so fast. It started me thinking that I was just about a year older than him when I married his father and 2 years after that he was born. I have spent my entire adult life hood being a mother. I am alot of other things but nothing measures up more than being a mom.

I often wonder what the future holds for The Boy. What will he ultimately choose to do and who will he marry and will he have children. Then that leads me to thinking about what are some of the things that I have never done but always wanted to.

One of the first things that popped into my head was Roller Derby. What?? Did you think it was going to be something like a Mission trip to a 3rd world country or to rescue whales. Pisshh - Hell no - it's Roller Derby.

I seriously thought about it in 2009 but then got pregnant with The Baby and then had the Baby and then nursed The Baby and then got into shape and then had surgery. Now I am ready. I am ready to be a Roller Derby Diva.

I took the first step and emailed the recruiting department for AC Derby Dallas (acderby). I think their season has already started so I might have to wait till it opens up again or maybe they have backup derby divas. Either way I am doing this or at least I will try. I can skate and skate pretty good. I might have to take a couple shots of tequila to work up the courage but I gotta at least give it a shot.

Of course Big Daddy is supportive of this decision. He has supported every one of my crazy ideas. He also thinks that the first time I get hit, I am gonna cry. He affectionately has given me the nickname of "Cry Baby Campbell". I might actually cry but that won't stop me.

I have more things on my "Bucket List" that I would like to do but I am gonna tackle this Roller Derby thing and see how I hold up.

What's on your bucket list?