Stretch Marks?????!!

[Laranna]

I've just been using a sorbolene with Vitamin E cream after every shower but then again this is a habit I've always had, not just since I got pregnant. I think it has helped. I also think drinking lots of water is good too.

I don't have any stretchmarks over my belly. I've just got 3 small ones on the bottom half of my boobs and thats it.

So far, I've put on 9kg.

[Trillian]

If you are prone to getting stretch marks then you are going to get them regardless of what wizz-bang treatment you put on your skin to prevent them. Although it doesn't hurt to keep your skin moisturised anyway as when your tummy gets bigger it can get really dry and itchy. With my first pg I didn't get them till 35wks, and they have gotten worse each time lol.

[gorgeous_lea]

I agree with Trillian, if your going to get them, you will, but moisturising is still a good thing to do. I got all mine when i was pregnant with my first, im now pregnant with my 5th and havent got any new one's I've only put on 5 kg's though, so that has probably helped.

Lea x

[Lolli]

Hi,
I definately Plamers Cocoa Butter Tummy Butter for stretch marks... you get it from the chemist in little tubs. It may not help if you're prone to them (although I didn't get any and I used it the whole way through) but it's thick and luxurious and smells totally divine!!

[feeb]

I have bought Bio oil but as others have said if u r prone u will get them!!

I had them pre preg and have a few more but i forget to use oil to minamise them!!!

i also have the palmers coco butter havent used it yet thought.

[Lolli]

Oh I used the BioOil for a bit too but I swapped to cocoa butter coz I was starting to feel like a chicken or something... oiling myself up every night

[ShootingStar]

I use a cream called Happy Event. I had a small amount of very faint lines on my thighs before my pregnancies but now nothing since using this cream. I used it with DS and so far in this pregnacy also i havent got any stretch marks at all on my belly or boobs. A girlfriend recommended it to me after she used it and didnt get any and also her SIL used it with her second pregnancy (she got stretch marks with her first) and didnt get any either.
You can get it at the chemist. Its in a white box with purple writing in the baby section usually or with the other stretch mark/prenatal creams.

ETA.. ive put on 10kgs so far at 29 weeks.

[didispunk]

Thanks ladies..

I got them with DS.. on boobs and belly.. I just wondered if anything made you feel any better or actually reduced them at all..

I am trying to drink more water but pee like a trooper which I cant stand!!
I put on 40kg with DS and lost 50kg in 5 weeks after birth...due to preaclampsia... so I am trying to be fitter and healthier this time.

Does Palmers Coco smell nice?