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By Natalie Kita, About.com Guide to Plastic Surgery

Getting Back Your Pre-Pregnancy Body With Plastic Surgery

Saturday July 5, 2008

There is no doubt that having a baby is one of life's most miraculous, joyful, and life-changing events. Most women simply can't wait to meet their little bundles of joy, let alone to get their bodies back following the blessed event. But whose body is it that you're getting back anyway?

First, there's the extra weight, which of course we fight valiantly through a vigorous post-baby regimen of diet and exercise... But where did all that extra skin (and those stretch marks) come from? Why are your breasts so much closer to your waist, and what can be done to lift the girls back up where they belong? How can you possibly now have cellulite on your knees? And what's the deal with the city street map comprised of broken and swollen leg veins that now graces your once gorgeous gams?

All these indignities suffered by our once taut and toned bodies leave some women reaching for the yellow pages, looking for the nearest plastic surgeon who can end their post-baby body blues toute de suite.
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