How's everyone doing with stretch marks?

missusbee · April 2012

On Sunday, at 30 weeks exactly, I sprouted my first one.

By this morning, I had sprouted a nice little roadmap of red highways across my belly.

Sad trombone.

How's everyone else doing?

breannie · April 2012

Nothing at the moment, but I am a few weeks behind most so I am sure they are coming....

StokedWifey · April 2012

I've had marks on my hips since I grew 4 inches in a month when I was younger, but so far with pregnancy, I'm good. *knock on wood* My mom only got them on her hips, so I'm hoping for those genes.

Boing214 · April 2012

Lucky lady, mine were here by 20 weeks and they just snuggled up with my overweight stretch marks. I don't know why they couldn't just be one and the same, I mean there was plenty of room down there already... {sigh} oh well.

lkamenko · April 2012

I don't have any strectch marks and hopefully won't - this is my third pregnancy an I did not have any with my first or second. But this time I noticed ugly spider veins on my legs. Sad

I don't think they will go away. Yak...

BBF2011 · April 2012

None yet.... but I'm very fair skinned and am not lucky enough to get away without them ( sad face) ....although Im using mustella twice a day... and hoping for the best.

LM915 · April 2012

None yet... and keeping my fingers crossed!

genkidesu · April 2012

only like 1-3 on my butt and no where else, BUT! i have a TON of spider veins on my butt, back of upper thighs, and back of calves. SAAAAAAAAAAD PANDA.

K8says · April 2012

None on my stomach yet, but I refuse to inspect my ass and thighs for them...

missusbee · April 2012

its probably a good thing I can't see my butt.

apollonia10 · April 2012

I got a few spots around 20 weeks, and they've gotten a little bigger, but they're all below my belly button. They're right in the center of my belly, which makes me happy because it means I'm moving out in front, not to the sides. I actually don't mind them; it shows that my body is shifting around!

ral1985 · April 2012

I have recently sprouted a whole bunch of new ones, in addition to the ones already there from DD.

I am a little annoyed about the amount this early on, because I didn't get any w/ DD until I was about 37 weeks. Since these new ones came so early I bet I'm in for a whole lotta marks. Super.

bookworm982 · April 2012

I have four tiny lines on the bottom of my left breast. I went from a B to a D (and I'm still growing) practically overnight. So far my belly is still doing great.

tiredmomsclub · April 2012

Sad to say. Had a lightning bolt looking mark that started by my belly button at 12 WEEKS! what! Then it transitioned into a full blown lightning storm all around my belly button. It now looks pretty much like a nasty cat attack. Ugh..

I just started using this new cream it was sworn to me by a mom who came out with very similar marks and she said hers have almost disappeared. I will update if it works..

rak123 · April 2012

I have a ton. They're on my hips, stomach, and backs of knees. I knew I was susceptible to them, but never thought I'd get them this bad! Waaaaaaaa. Oh well.

leolyns · April 2012

Can't find any yet.

jerseygirl09 · April 2012

I'm also 30 weeks and have none, but i will tell you, with my first pregnancy they showed up AFTER the birth... i had a c section.. not sure if that had anything to do with it, but there are a few. I've been doing the cocoa butter all over my stomach since day 1 and so far so good.

72012mk · April 2012

Mine keep multiplying on my hips. So far, none on my stomach -- keeping my fingers crossed it stays that way!

JustcallmeGG2 · April 2012

none yet but i am sure they are coming!

itkatydid · April 2012

I got them with DS but I swear that I didn't get them until after I got home from the hospital. I had heard Moms saying that and thought they were full of it. It really happens, people. About 4 on each side of my belly button. I don't have any yet but I now know that means NOTHING!!! The good thing about these stretch marks is that they faded really quickly.

bobbiecashion · April 2012

I thought I was doing so good...then I found some on the back of my thighs while in a dressing room. That was two weeks ago, still none on my belly but my butt and thighs will never be the same, Crying

. I plan to keep moisturizing and just try not to look lol

Girolle · April 2012

I have 3 tiny ones that came on overnight right around my belly button last week. I am hoping that is where it ends but I feel like it is unlikely (I'm 27 weeks).

temporalrobe · April 2012

week 30+ here and none yet.

varicose veins on legs on other hand are out of control.

lewispm · April 2012

Nothing yet...definitely crossing my fingers I don't get any, but I know that if I do it will all be OK. Our babies are worth every mark!

lada85 · April 2012

I'm right over 30 weeks and haven't gotten at yet.......yet.....I'm still waiting b/c I know it's totally possible. So for now fingers crossed!

packfan20 · April 2012

LM915:
None yet... and keeping my fingers crossed!

Same here. Fingers and toes crossed.

SallySunrise · April 2012

JennMM:
I haven't noticed any new ones but then I haven't really been paying that much attention to be honest. I sort of think of them as battle scars to be worn proundly:)

Me too. I've only found one that I'm positive is new (it's on TOP of an old one!) but I'm pretty covered in them from DS so there are probably many more that I just haven't even noticed. I've just accepted them and don't really pay much attention anymore. I'm a tiger, hear me ROAR! ;-)

turtlebug12 · April 2012

I look like I got in a fight with the Xman Wolverine, and lost! I've actually lost weight, i'm down 10lbs from pre-pregnancy, but my belly used to be flat, so the skin is very not happy.

peeper72 · April 2012

So far, so good but there is still plenty of time.

pinkangelmoon · April 2012

Twin belly here, and yep. They started below the belly button and now I have some around the belly button. At least I can't see most of them if look down Stick out tongue

And I've been slathering on the bio oil and cocoa butter twice a day since first tri!

meredith1987 · April 2012

dammmm. I was secretly hoping that if I didn't have them by 28 weeks I wouldn't be getting them at all and I was just going to keep my mouth shut. Clearly I was living in denial :-/

bluemommy · April 2012

So sad

I have toooo many to count!!! :-(

Maybe 30 all below my belly button and on the sides. Once they start they are like a run in your stockings. They just get bigger and bigger. I got them about 1 month ago. All I can say is when you first notice them-dont scratch!

AmyInOly · April 2012

So far, no. Hopefully it is able to stay that way. My mom didn't have any with me or my younger twin brothers (8 and 9 lb twins, by the way!) So I hope I inherited those genes!

hokiemama06 · April 2012

rwenck:
My mom said she never got them either, so I was hopeful. Then they came!!! I am hoping it's because of the twins and everything is stretching and growing much faster. When I first discovered my first one on my lower belly (which is were they all are) I was really upset and showed my cousin because she came over that day to see me. Well, she sent me this quote tha she found on pintrest which is now my little motto that I live by: "Your body isn't ruined, you are godd*mn tiger who's earned her stripes!"

It's probably the twins. My mom didn't have any before she got pregnant with me and my twin sis - I think we did her in. She told me last night she gained 62 lbs with us!

I'm hoping for her stretch mark genes!

Esquirette · April 2012

Week 27 so far no marks....I have a along way to go still and I have a feeling I may end up with a few since my mom has them but it is not stopping me from bio-oil + palmer tummy butter + palmer coco butter everyday

gstore · April 2012

i'm 30 weeks 1 day. so far so good! my mom says she had none. fingers crossed indeed! but i guess i WILL be getting HUGE in the next 10 weeks...soooo we'll see how it goes!

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