My patients follow the Ogee Recovery Protocol for a BBL. I will post a link at the end. According to the protocol regarding sitting after a BBL my patients do not sit at all for the first two weeks after having a BBL except to use the bathroom. Following this period of no sitting patients are then allowed to sit on a BBL pillow for the following two weeks and then after this they will sit normally.
Now a word about starting to sit after a BBL. So it is safe to sit 4 weeks after a BBL, but when you first start to sit after a BBL you will want to do what I call STRESS SITTING. What that means is you sit for 15 minutes and then you get up out of your chair for 10 -15 seconds to allow the blood to return to the fat and you do this for the first week.
This stress sitting will make the fat stronger. It is kind of like limiting the amount of water you give to a plant to make the roots grow stronger. If you overwater a plant (do not sit) the roots won’t really grow and the plant will become weak because the roots don’t have to grow to get water. If you water your plant less often then you will get a strong, healthy plant because during the periods without water the roots will grow and spread out looking for water and the plant becomes more firmly rooted and stronger. (I use a lot of gardening analogies, in fact the whole Ogee concept comes from Nature, but I digress!)
Of course if you wait too long to water your plant it will die so there is a happy medium to get the plant to survive but also to get the plant to grow out strong, hearty long roots. We want your fat cells to grow out strong connections to the blood vessels so they too will be strong.
I have my patients do this stress sitting only for the first week of sitting (that’s the 5th week after their surgery) and then after that they can sit normally.
So to recap, no sitting for the first two weeks, then sit on a BBL pillow for the next two weeks, then STRESS SIT for one week and then sit normally after that.
Here is a copy of the Ogee Recovery BBL Recovery Guide which includes the recovery Protocol: https://na2.hubs.ly/H01M5KR0
Aquí tienes la versión en español: Guía de Recuperación Ogee para BBL
