Preventing Stretch Marks

Re: Preventing Stretch Marks

• kosmo86 member

  March 2016

  From everything I have read stretch marks are genetic. You can 'try' to gain wait slowly and put on lotion (this is what I am attempting) but I will probably end up with them anyway.  

  Me: 32 DH: 31

  TTC #2 since January 2018

  Baby #1 DD  Born 8/25/2016
  BFP: 8/11/18 Due: 4/26/18

  
   
  
  

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• PSUBecky23 member

  March 2016

  Sorry to say but it's genetic. Not gaining too much weight at once is really the only way to prevent them but even that's not foolproof.

  Married 6/4/11

  Reese born 3/23/13

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• hey_clever_girl member

  March 2016

  I'm not using anything. I had zero stretch marks with my daughter ... Until 37 weeks and then I got them EVERYWHERE. I buttered my belly daily. I still got them in that last stretch.

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• SaraJuul member

  March 2016

  This will be baby #3 for me. With my first I didn't get any on my stomach, but I did on my inner thighs and boobs. Apparently it's fairly common on the thighs because your body stores fat during pregnancy on your hips and thighs for breast feeding later on...no one told me about that ahead of time.

  Baby number #2 I got 2 small marks on either side of my stomach, you really can't see them now. He was 9lb 12oz so I guess I was doomed.

  With both I used cocoa butter lotion. I don't know how much it helps, but it smells good. I wouldn't worry about it, they are battle wounds and they fade over time.

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• diagonalley member

  March 2016

  Unfortunately this is just one of those things you won't have control over.  I wouldn't worry too much about "preventing" them.  I never got any with my son and didn't do anything specific.

  

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• camichael84 member

  March 2016

  Thr only thing you can do to prevent them is have good genetics. Lotion does help for the itching that comes along with the stretching of your skin, though, so it's still not a bad idea.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• tinypikachu member

  March 2016

  As PPs said, there is nothing you can do to prevent stretch marks, unfortunately. I used to be a runner and gym rat and after going through a muscle illness and being told I could not exercise (at all in the beginning) I gained a lot of weight quickly and got stretch marks. What I have found is that, for me, the Palmer's stretch mark butter helps in fading them quicker when the stretch marks are new. They'll still be there but the ones I've treated with that butter after they've appeared faded faster and are less noticeable than the ones I got before I discovered it.

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• sarahg8r member

  March 2016

  I used bio oil and cocoa butter religiously last time and I still got them. 

   
    
     
  
     
  

  
  

  
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• vampirina member

  March 2016

  From what I've heard, genetics and age will be the biggest factors. I've basically accepted that my belly is going to look like a wrinkly deflated balloon post-pregnancy (just like my mom's and sister's!) and instead of worrying about it, I've decided to get excited about it. It means I get to join the ever elusive mom-club.*
  
  *Though, obviously, you don't need stretch marks to be a part of the mom club - I'm just trying to put a positive spin on it for my own mental sanity
  

  

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