Hi, I'm Kasey.

After my third baby, Finn, I had a diastasis recti that no amount of running would fix. I was fit. I ran half-marathons. I ate well. None of it mattered. My core had separated during the pregnancy and the only real fix was surgery.

A plastic surgeon in Austin quoted me $26,500. Just for the tummy tuck. Drew and I sat with that number for a long time. We could have figured it out financially. But I saw exactly what it would do to us.

Then a woman in my running group mentioned, completely offhand, that she had gone to Guadalajara. I thought she was joking. She pulled out her phone and showed me her results.

I spent the next four months in every Facebook group I could find. I built a spreadsheet with 47 tabs. I read every horror story and every success story I could dig up. I cross-checked board certifications against the Mexican medical board registry. I did video consultations with three different surgeons. I asked one clinic to connect me with a previous patient and spent 45 minutes on the phone with her.

When I found my surgeon, I felt more confident than I had about the Austin doctor. His training was from Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara with a fellowship in Miami. The clinic was JCI-accredited. The operating team spoke English. The facility was cleaner than the consultation room I had sat in back home.

I flew with my sister-in-law Dana. We stayed in a serviced apartment for eleven nights. My total cost, including flights, accommodation, all aftercare and every pharmacy run, was $7,400.

When I posted my before-and-after in the running group, my DMs did not stop for three weeks. I sent my spreadsheet to eleven women. Four of them went. I realised there was no single place online that gave you pre-vetted, trustworthy information about international clinics without either trying to sell you something or scaring you away entirely.

So I built Mommy Makeover Packages, the resource I wished had existed. Every clinic in it is held to the same standard I used for my own search.