Preliminary Results!
There have been 227 responses so far, so thank you everyone.
A whopping 47.6% of us already had some stretch marks before our pregnancies, including those from adolescence.
59% of us have used some sort of stretch mark cream in pregnancy.
Only 36.6% of total respondents got no stretch marks during pregnancy.
Of those women who did not have any stretch marks before pregnancy, 49.1% had none after pregnancy, whether they used creams or not.
Of those women who did not have any stretch marks to begin with, and who did not use any preparation at all, 52% still had none after pregnancy and 28% had just one or two here and there. So this seems to fit with the thinking that, "some people just don't get stretch marks". Again, these results are preliminary (and I'm teaching myself to use the survey database as I go along...) so we'll revisit them as more results come in.
Because the use of each product is widely split, the actual numbers for each product usage are small, so it would be too unscientific to break the survey down too much at the moment. I'll leave it open for another while to see if we get more responses. Plus, I will go through the "other product" responses and see if they can be banded together into "oils", "creams" and so on to give a broader picture.
I'm hoping to be able to see if any of the products seem to have a particular "success rate." (Because that's what we're really after )
I grant you, I am not a statistician or a particularly good survey maker, so you'll forgive me for my unscientific results I hope!