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Terribly vain thread alert!! What DOES happen to exisitng stretch marks on your 2nd preg??

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Lizzer · 14/08/2007 17:14

Sorry but I'm dying to know....

Not because I think they can be prevented or anything but mine are v faded after 7 yrs and now I'm 23w they are looking further apart but still white. Will they go red and angry again when bigger?

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hertsnessex · 14/08/2007 17:15

they may not - but you may get some in other places as you may carry differently.

good luck!

cx

Lizzer · 14/08/2007 17:15

(Trust me to put a typo in the thread title )

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MamaMaiasaura · 14/08/2007 17:16

watching this with interest as am 20 weeks and ds1 is 7 years so similar gap.

JARM · 14/08/2007 17:17

i found that the old ones didnt change, but i got a few new ones.

now on baby 3 and nothing new so far, no red/angry etc and im 25+1

Lizzer · 14/08/2007 17:18

Thanks Herts just what I didn't want to hear LOL. Ah well at least I know, I'm definitely carrying differently this time round though I'm not sure where I could get more of them I'm pretty covered from navel down and hips too!! Navel up?!

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Lizzer · 14/08/2007 17:20

Hi there, Awen and JARM we should compare notes on antenatal thread. Let me know if you see any changes and I'll tell you too

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hertsnessex · 14/08/2007 17:42

sorry - but you did ask!!!! (i had no stretchmarks with ds1 - until i was in labour - then 5 appeared around my belly button!!!)

cx

fawkeoff · 14/08/2007 17:44

nope they stay the same.........but can grow iyswim.i didnt think i could possibly get any more stretchmarks but the feckers grew so i now have really faded ones and at the top they are red

Lizzer · 14/08/2007 20:19

Thanks fawkeoff, I'm pleased to be armed with info should it happen again! (love the name btw)

Herts-that's really bad luck, I wonder why it happened then?

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LadyTophamHatt · 14/08/2007 20:23

I just got more with ds2, all vertical. Then with ds3 I got more again but horizontal.

My lower belly looked like a pair austrain blinds.

With Ds4 the vertical one jst got abit wider but no new one....not that I could tell anyway. It was already a mess so who knows!!

SenoraPostrophe · 14/08/2007 20:24

they join up and you become even again.

Lizzer · 15/08/2007 10:16

Senorapostrophe, that's exactly what I wanted to hear, thanks

LTH - LOL @ austrian blinds!

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DITDOT · 15/08/2007 16:23

I got loads with DD1!! With DD2 ( 4yr gap)they just became redder but had no new ones. Now(15mths later) faded.

SenoraPostrophe · 15/08/2007 20:26

lizzer you do know I was joking don't you? sorry.

really, mine aren't that bad now though. considering.

Piffle · 15/08/2007 20:29

I had 9 yrs between ds1 and dd, I got 1 or two new ones, then 4 yrs later I was pregnant with ds2 and got no new ones at all!

Tranquila · 15/08/2007 20:33

think i just got a few more. existing ones may have gotslightly more stretched... all faded fairly soon tho.
i didnt have 'bad' onesbtw.

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