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If you had stretchmarks...

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babbashouse · 10/04/2012 16:00

When did you get them by? I'm trying to tell myself if I haven't got them by now maybe I never will (self-delusion!)

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PeelingmyselfofftheCeiling · 10/04/2012 16:03

In the 28th week.

Which was doubly annoying as I gave birth in the 30th Grin

Happenstance · 10/04/2012 16:05

39 weeks with DD Hmm sorry, 32 weeks this time but to be honest the massive op scar on my bra line sort of distracts from them so not to fussed.

TeaTeaLotsOfTea · 10/04/2012 16:05

Oh I remember thinking I wasn't going to get any then at 30 weeks they began to appear.

Very low down to start with but they progressed well and they well up to my belly button by the time I had him at 40 weeks.

piratecat · 10/04/2012 16:06

ooh about 36 weeks i think.

justlemonade · 10/04/2012 16:15

About 38 weeks. If it's any help my beauty therapist told me the other day that she can hardly see them any more (3 years later) even through I'm now starting to get bump number 2

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babbashouse · 10/04/2012 16:18

Oh dear! To be honest I'm not so bothered (though obviously would prefer to get away without) about getting them on my stomach - the thing I'm really worried about is my boobs. I hate stripey boobs and even though I rarely engage in cleavagey dresses anymore, I think I'd miss the option!

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JambalayaCodfishPie · 10/04/2012 16:20

I had none until about a day before I had my daughter.

Then ker-pow!

Stretch mark city! Angry

Schmokeandapancake · 10/04/2012 16:22

Mine didn't appear until my due date....! Pretty annoying.

Tigresswoods · 10/04/2012 16:22

Right. At. The. End.

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PotteringAlong · 10/04/2012 16:22

The midwife pointed them out to me at my 40 week appointment. Sorry...

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babbashouse · 10/04/2012 16:39

Oh dear, oh dear, wish I never asked! Sounds like I shall just have to enjoy being stripe-free whilst it lasts...

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Ambrosius · 10/04/2012 16:45

About 30 weeks. Thought I'd got away with it :(

emblosion · 10/04/2012 17:11

30 weeks for me too, I just looked in the mirror a couple of days ago and there they were, sigh! So much for bio oil, ha ha

toddlerama · 10/04/2012 17:12

I got them from about 22 weeks. By the time I hit due date with dd2 I looked like a tiger loaf. No new ones this time though. Perhaps they have become pleats...

PickleSarnie · 10/04/2012 17:49

I didn't get any at all when I was pregnant. However, after having my son, I deflated really quickly. I was really smug about that until I looked in the mirror and saw a barcode worth of stretch marks.

vix1980 · 10/04/2012 18:11

29 weeks for me, was proudly showing off my belly to a friend comparing our stretch mark free belly's when i noticed a silvery line appearing, 1 week on and it has 5 other lodgers with it too! bio oil my arse Angry

RosesAndCustard · 10/04/2012 21:33

30 weeks started, 40 weeks worse, by 42 weeks I was stripy as a tigger!

Flisspaps · 10/04/2012 21:34

Can't remember, but first time round I thought I'd got away with it until I saw my bump in the mirror at about 34 weeks and realised that the underside of my bump looked like someone had attacked it with a red permanent marker...

SarryB · 10/04/2012 22:45

About 30 weeks the first ones appeared quite low down, then a couple of weeks later BAM the whole underside of my bump was covered...

37 weeks now, and I've developed more around my belly-button. Grr.

Heavensmells · 10/04/2012 22:55

I was stretch mark free until my due date. I swear they all just appeared overnight Hmm

RockChick1984 · 10/04/2012 22:57

After the birth, when I deflated!! I'd been checking under my bump with a mirror vain and definitely had none before the birth, I assume they were so stretched that I just couldn't see them! Although my DS is now 1 and they disappeared a couple of months ago, so could have been much worse.

NoMoreMarbles · 11/04/2012 02:30

About 36weeks... I thought I had gotten away with it...I developed polyhydramnios and my stomach measured 44weeks at 38 and my stretch marks are just below my ribs...silvery, crepey wrinkles 6 years on...sexiness personified meGrin

MarieFromStMoritz · 11/04/2012 04:11

Yeah, I had stripey boobs. They were also empty, like the kind of old deflated balloons you find behind the tele, months after a party. I had breast augmentation a few years ago to 'fill them out' again, and you can't see the stretch marks now.

ellesbell · 11/04/2012 07:26

28 weeks, despite religiously rubbing in various lotions and potions from day one! They sort of appeared overnight and I didn't notice them until my OH pointed them out!!!

PerryCombover · 11/04/2012 07:29

Between week 40 and 41 grrrr