Alish-stretchmarks (i was told) tend to be hereditary so if your mum/sisters had them then unfortunetly you are more likely to get them my mum/sister did not get any and neither did i after 5 pregnancies except for my boobs i got the silver lines when my milk came in and i used baldings olive oil everyday and i cant see a thing they are so faint.
My poor GF got them on her belly, arms and backs of her legs really bad and used coconut oil and bio oil and you can only see hers when in certain light but they have faded pretty well also.

Angelfish-congratz hun maybe bub will show on NYE.

I finally post my horrible birth story if anyone is interested in having a stickybeak.