to be really annoyed

[catgirl1976]

that I have spent a lot of time and money slathering my stomach, sides, bum and thighs with oils and all sorts of things to avoid stretch marks only to have them appear on my breasts!? No one told me about that. I feel the stretch marks have somehow done this on purpose and have been laughing at my oily tummy the whole time

[CharleneysWishWellingtons]

catgirl same thing happened to me.. then again, i've used bio-oil almost every day since i've been pregnant and my stomach is still producing the dreaded purple lines! s'not fair!

[happy2bhomely]

It's pot luck/genetics. I've had 4 big babies ranging from 8lb to 11lb. Just a few little stretch marks on my bottom! I got huge and thought I couldn't stretch any more- but I think I'm just very elastic because it stretched all the way out and then bounced almost all the way back! My boobs went from a small Bcup to an Ecup and they don't have a mark on them but are certainly not what they used to be! I've seen other Mum's, only 6 months gone and they are covered from backs of knees to tops of boobs. My Mum got bad stretch marks but me and my sisters have all been very lucky.

[catgirl1976]

god i havent even checked the backs of my knees! probably riddled. bah - horrible things!

[COCKadoodledooo]

Stretch marks are like ninjas I reckon - they pop up in the middle of the night out of nowhere and overpower you. They do fade though.

And your boobs might shrink or they might not. Went from 36DD pre-preg with ds1 to 34F after (via 38GG). With ds2 they went up to 34J but 20 months on they're back to 34F.