Plastic surgery has always been like a mined field so it's no wonder that doctors and specialists are always trying to make things easier and smoother for all parties involved. Until now, few plastic surgeons took it upon themselves to write a book meant to help children understand why their mommies were looking different - and this is where Dr. Michael Salzhauer and his "My Beautiful Mommy" illustrated book for children comes in.

Set for release on Mother's Day, this book features Dr. Michael himself as a superhero type of guy to whom a young mother and her son come looking for advice. He then proceeds to tell the mother and implicitly the boy where the bandages will be and how the woman's body will be affected temporarily after to the intervention. It also presents the end result and the boy's ecstasy at seeing that his mom is again glowing, glamorous and, what's more important, slim. All of the above are depicted in very Barbie-esque type of illustrations.

Speaking with the media about what prompted him to write a children's book, especially on plastic surgery, Dr. Salzhauer recalled that it was actually one of his female patient's experience that inspired him. Gabriela Acosta, the 29-year-old mother of one, managed to lose all her baby weight but was left with saggy skin that she wanted to eliminate through surgery. When she came in his office with her little boy in tow and confessed to him that she did not know how to tell him what was about to happen, the doctor told her that he had written down a few ideas for a book that might come in handy in her case.

He handed her the finished book a while later and, he vouches, she had the most impressive results with telling her son about her surgery. "Parents generally tend to go into this denial thing. They just try to ignore the kids' questions completely. [Children] fill in the blanks in their imagination. With the tummy tucks, [the mothers] can't lift anything. They're in bed. The kids have questions." the doctor/writer also added as motivation for the first book of this type ever.

Seeing how 2007 was a year when 348,000 women resorted to plastic surgery for bigger breasts, out of which one third were women over 40 who needed a lift after giving birth, and 148,000 got tummy tucks in the US alone, it's not hard to imagine that Dr. Salzhauer's "My Beautiful Mommy" will find an eager and open-minded audience.