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Q: 38 weeks and stretch marks!!
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lonely_angel
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Lilly Ivy
Extremely eHealthy
Lotion Lotion Lotion. Cocoa Butter is a good one, but they special kinda for stretch marks, but cocoa butter, imo, works just as well! Well, when I use it anyway 
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lonely_angel
Experienced User
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yellow ribbon
Especially eHealthy
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lonely_angel
Experienced User
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Mabel
Moderator
Stretch marks are scars in the skin. Like scars, they never fully go away. There is also nothing you can do to prevent them if you are prone to getting them. They are hereditary.
Keep your skin moisterized, although it won't stop them, it doesn't hurt
After time, your stretch marks will fade, but will never permanently be gone. Depending on the severity, they will range in color. At first they'll be purple, later they'll fade more towards skin color but may always have a silvery-shiny tone to them. They are also indented, so if you run your finger over the stretch marked skin, it will feel bumpy.
Welcome to motherhood! Hope you enjoy your stay
Keep your skin moisterized, although it won't stop them, it doesn't hurt
After time, your stretch marks will fade, but will never permanently be gone. Depending on the severity, they will range in color. At first they'll be purple, later they'll fade more towards skin color but may always have a silvery-shiny tone to them. They are also indented, so if you run your finger over the stretch marked skin, it will feel bumpy.
Welcome to motherhood! Hope you enjoy your stay
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Electriceyes
Extremely eHealthy
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jessamyn
Extremely eHealthy
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Electriceyes
Extremely eHealthy
yeah, I'm 39 weeks now and JUST starting to get them. You can barley tell so I'm happy about that. They aren't all bumpy like either like everyone says stretch marks are... and they are very few and just around my effing belly button 
Oh well, my man doesn't care lol. I could have really bad ones and it wouldn't matter. I still hate it though lol
Oh well, my man doesn't care lol. I could have really bad ones and it wouldn't matter. I still hate it though lol
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Verizon-y
Extremely eHealthy
I was lucky, I didn't get any stretch marks. I didn't know they were hereditary, thanks for that info.
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Mabel
Moderator
| futureshock wrote: |
| I was lucky, I didn't get any stretch marks. I didn't know they were hereditary, thanks for that info. |
As is scarring on your skin. If you have skin that easily scars, it is hereditary. Same goes with stretchmarks. If your mom/grandma have them, you may get them as well. But, like all things, it doesn't mean you will.
Also it depends on how fast you grow. Because your skin can handle some stretch... just not dramatic stretching quickly.
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Verizon-y
Extremely eHealthy
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Lilly Ivy
Extremely eHealthy
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Willa Weintraub
Extremely eHealthy
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young Girl
Especially eHealthy
| ~*~Melissa~*~ wrote: |
| If you take vitamin e pills and/of use vitamin e oil, it should help reduce them some. it helped with my motorcycle scar! |
motorcycle scar?!?!!?!?
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yellow ribbon
Especially eHealthy
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lonely_angel
Experienced User
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young Girl
Especially eHealthy
| lonely_angel wrote: |
| What happens to your skin after pregnancy? Does it all just go flabby or does your skin kinda shrink back to what it was. I feel llike an fool like I have never seen someone that has had a baby before but I am getting these questions now? I know my older sister her belly is really wrinkly but she has had 5 kids so, I don't really think I can answer my question off of what I have seem from her. I know it takes time for your uterus to shrink agian and it gives your skin time to shrink back too... |
it depends. how much did you weigh before and how much do you weigh now?
this was me a few days before i had my daughter
and heres a few days after
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young Girl
Especially eHealthy
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