Did you get stretch marks?

[Party-of-five]

my tummy looks like a road map!!! i used to worry about them but then you realise they will always be there even if they do fade...to me they are like my tattoos all thought not so pretty they are a permenent reminder that once apon a time something very special and magical when on inside my tummy.

[paradise lost]

Around 15% of people don't get them. It's genetic. For the other 85% of us they're pretty much a given. BUT not everyone gets them on their belly during pregnancy - i have a few friends who avoided them on the belly, but got them on their hips/bum/boobs. Unfortunately creams cannot prevent them, but bio-oil can help to fade them.

I have two forming an almost completely straight line underneath my pubic hair - i didn't have them before labour, i'm positive DD caused them as she was born, which i have to admit, i think is pretty awesome

[Stevie]

i used palmers stretch mark cream for half my pregnancy and then sitched to bio oil for the last half, i didnt get a one.... until about a week after she was born i got some, no where near as bad as some ppls, just a couple under my belly button and about 3 small lines on both hips, my bbs however are COVERED in them (i used cream on them too) but i had practically no boobs before got pregnant and now they are massive.

It sucks i know but its all apart pf having babies.

[sas85]

My tummy was pretty small during DD's pregnancy so I didn't get any there but I was expecting them, and am sure I will get them if my skin actually has to stretch there in this pregnancy - as during puberty I got them Baaad on my breasts and upper arms. They have faded to white silvery/grey lines but they are still there 10 years on and destroyed the elasticity in those regions. My mum doesn't have a stretch mark on her (stretch mark genes can come from fathers side too) but she got left with an 'apron' after getting so huge with a giant baby and too much fluid - I'd rather have a few stretch mark scars than that - I am afraid of getting that.

[whoops]

I got them when I preg with DS1 all over my tummy, but no extra ones with DS2 and 3 and haven't got anymore with this pregnancy so far. *touch wood*. I hate them, but DH calls them his love marks

[helle]

I got them when I preg with DS1 all over my tummy, but no extra ones with DS2 and 3 and haven't got anymore with this pregnancy so far. *touch wood*. I hate them, but DH calls them his love marks

N'awww! my DH calls me stretch XD Wish he'd come up with something a little more romantic!
Mine seemed to appear over night, at around 30ish weeks? I've been using a Tinderbox belly rub that three ladies told me they had used and never got one stretch mark... sure proved them wrong! XD

[Bathsheba]

After having 3 babies I am fortunate not to have any on my belly. I have some small ones on my boobs (because I went from being a size A to a size C+) but they have gone white and you can hardly see them. I agree that it's genetic... don't waste money on creams... they don't get in deep enough and even if they did i doubt if it would help. I'm pretty sure all stretch marks turn white... (?)