Anyone else get lots of stretch marks first pregnancy and none second?!

[beakysmum]

And if so, how do you explain this???

I haven't got any more so far, but still have 12 weeks to go, so we'll see.
I have read that you're less likely to get them second time round though, because the skin has already stretched so much or something

or maybe you just don't notie the new ones lol

i had flames rising out of my pants with first preg, but no new ones with second, thanks god.
just the silvery old ones!
i guess the skin has been stretched once already?

the first one paves the way, as they say!!

Same for me loads first time around but none second BUT was much more careful about what I ate second time around as was lardarse after first

I did wonder if it was as simple as that; that the poor skin is so stretched after preg 1, that not a lot more can happen to it on preg 2.

I was covered in them from week 28 last time (remember it well!!!) and am today 39 weeks with not a single new one, so here's hoping. Have been using Bio-oil this time though and only ordinary moisturisers last time.

i didn't so much get new stretch marks with second preg but rather an extension - they all seemed to stretch a bit further upwards ! my ds loves them and quite often asks to see them !

they say that it doesn't really matter what you put on your skin tho' don't they. that if your gonna get em your gonna get em, its due to the skin elasticity. I got a lot of stretchmarks round my hips and top of mythighs during my early teens, so was sure i wld get them when preggers. didn't get them with first pregnancy as only got to 7 months and had prem ds, i'm preparing myself to get them this time tho' am still smearing myself in bio oil (isn't it flipping oily tho' ) i know i should be worrying about bigger things, but i really don't wanna get em. I'm 27 weeks at the mo and quite big, so prob start getting them at some point

I had none (apart from a few on my breasts) from 3 pregnancies, and am now pregnant again, and have got them on my back WTF!!

First pg my stretch marks only appeared when I went overdue, grr. They were all at the botton of my bump. With ds2 I had a different shaped bump and the stretch marks radiated out from my belly button. I didn't put anywhere near as much weight on the 2nd time, just had a collossal bump so my skin was stretched in a different place.
By 38 weeks they had nearly joined up with the previous ones.
When at 39+6 I was told I needed elective c sect, I was told that the incision is done lower down so that it won't show if I wear a bikini... my response was that they can cut right across the middle of my belly as I won't be EVER wearing anything smaller than a wetsuit ever again!!

What i'd like to know is if the skin has been stretched from pg1, then you have a tummy tuck, then put on tons of weight you'd lost before you had tummy tuck, and THEN are pg2, do you get stretchmarks on your stretchmarks?

Me!

But instead I have ended up with a wrinkly stomach.

I had loads - bum, belly, breasts, thighs - think I ate too much!! First time round.
2nd just a couple on belly, in same place as first.
This time - none - but I've been using bio-oil too - don't think this is relevant though - just coincidence.

i got lots in the first - only in my last few weeks when i had severe pre-eclampsia (whihc turned into eclampsia) and really swelled up. got none with ds2 even though again i had sever pre eclampsia but i did moisturise every day, not with anything special though just victorias secrets body lotion.

i only got them in my 1st pregnancy

loads in pg1 and no new ones in pg2 - id did put on a stone less in weight though. My old ones got purple again but no new ones i dont think.,

yes i got all my stretch marks with ds1 and then on 2 more ds and not one new one with either i think it maybe that your body is doing it for the first time after that everything was loose any way well was for me any how lol

Got hundreds first time and none this time(3 days overdue and counting), thought that was normal, though inexplicably i weighed myself this morning and am 14 stone and I'm sure I wasn't that heavy last time tho i look like I've put on less weight this time. Don't get it at all!

i got none at all first time and i was huge. Now 33 weks pg and got loads on tum, eventhough I am smaller this time. What that all about!!!!