Anyone avoid stretch marks with #1 but get them with #2???

DevonPow

I am irrationally ticked about this. My mom doesn't have any stretch marks. I didn't get a single one with DS1, but now....it looks like I may be getting some right in/a little out from my belly button. WTF?????????  I am only 22 weeks and haven't grown that much - this is crazy. If I am starting to get some NOW what on earth will I look like at the end??  Is it possible to get them with subsequent kids if you didn't get any with your first??

DevonPow

And oh my Jesus...I am Gold.

Stepping away from the computer....slowly.....

j-w

This post is n/a for me, but I wanted to ask if you are finding out the baby's sex?!

joseysbride

I didn't get any with #1 but did get some with #2.  I had #1 at 36 weeks, and #2 and 38.5 weeks, and the stretch marks appeared only a week or so before #2 was born, so I attributed it to that.  Who knows, though!

DevonPow

I did - It's another boy Only problem is that he may never have a name. We used our only agreed upon name with DS1....

justEK

I got one single one by my belly button with DD. I rubbed coco butter all over my belly with her. 

With DS, I got quite a few more, but I also gained a ton of weight and didn't put a thing on my belly. 

j-w

DevonPow:

I did - It's another boy Only problem is that he may never have a name. We used our only agreed upon name with DS1....

Congrats!!  We are lucky we were done after DS was born because he took our only boy name too!

Cbidt's girl

I was paranoid about stetch marks with both pregnancies. I escaped with no noticable marks. I have one on the underside of my breast but I have no need to frequen. A topless beach . Yes, of course pregnancy 2 can affect you differently. My skin didn't snap back after kid2 the way it did with kid1. It pisses me off in the summer.

cokt

I only got them with my second pregnancy. My second DS was born at 37 weeks 6 days and was 8lbs 10oz though-he was ginormous. The good news is, once I lost all of the weight and my stomach went back to normal, the stretch marks weren't visible anymore. Congrats on having another boy :-) MH and I didn't agree on boy names with either pregnancy (we did not find out the sex with either) and both boys did not have a name until after they were born.

wellfleet04

Me I didn't get any with #1 and my tummy skin snapped right back to normal. Nit so much after #2. I only got a few tiny ones on one hip, but I was freaking out the entire pregnancy that they were going to explode. Fwiw, they are pretty much invisible now, 2.5 yrs later.

grja

Cbidt's girl:

I was paranoid about stetch marks with both pregnancies. I escaped with no noticable marks. I have one on the underside of my breast but I have no need to frequen. A topless beach . Yes, of course pregnancy 2 can affect you differently. My skin didn't snap back after kid2 the way it did with kid1. It pisses me off in the summer.

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This. All of this. I have one right on the underside of my right bewbie, but thats about it. It showed up early, like 16 weeks or something. But it was all i got.

And yeah, totally second the fact that my skin took longer to tighten back up with #2. I had 2 under 2 though, so not sure if that made a difference or not.

Melett

Didn't get them with #1or #2, but got them with # 3 .. I was pretty dissapointed .