The Stylish C-Tuck. Is It Worth It?:

There are a lot of new moms in the A-list this year with Christina Aguilera, Halle Berry and Jennifer Lopez adding their tots to the list of celebrity kids and Brooke Burke and Angelina Jolie expecting theirs.

New mums and new babies mean a surge in business for personal trainers and plastic surgeons. While some like Christina Aguilera and Myleene have preferred to work out, rumors hold that Gwen Stefani, Britney Spears and Denise Richards have all gone under the knife and combined a C-section with a tummy tuck. A Caesarean section is considered to be a major abdominal surgery with at least 10-15 percent C-sections performed in almost any region in the world. The most common motivations for a C-section pregnancy are in order to save the life of the mother and the fetus with minimum patient inconvenience and pain being secondary motivators. The post Caesarean state finds the mother with unwanted tummy mass that rarely goes away with exercise and dieting. A lot of women will do almost anything to have this mass removed, including having a ceasarean while they are in their eighth month of pregnancy so that they can start work on their tummies right away. Dubbed as a C-tuck, professional plastic surgery experts severely recommend against combining a plastic surgery procedure like tummy tuck with a C-section surgery. The risk of infections not with-standing, an abdominoplasty so soon after a mother has delivered can result in strong scarring and reactions against a changing body. Top plastic surgeons at the Plastic Surgery Institute of California recommend that new mums delay a tummy tuck surgery for a period of six months or longer before they ditch unwanted belly flab.