Stretchmarks

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Just a bit of an indulgent question, at what point in your pregnancy did you start to get stretchmarks? I'm 27 weeks with my first and don't have any yet, I suffered so badly from them during puberty and dreading them (but happy to get them for a healthy baby of course). Just curious.

Hi OP, from memory with my first it was the last four or five weeks of pregnancy that they appeared. They are now faded and silvery, barely visible.
I’m now 29 weeks pregnant with my 2nd and have no new ones so far but I am using palmers lotion every day and keeping well hydrated!

I didn't get any stretch marks with either of my pregnancies. I was religious in rubbing baby oil into my bump, although I may have just been lucky.

I got a few stretch marks during puberty but none at all when I was pregnant. I did use coconut oil on my bump when I could be bothered to , so I don't know if it was that or if I was just lucky.

About 35 or 36 weeks...

They faded pretty quickly though. Once you shrink back the redness goes and they're just clear/shiny marks.

I distinctly remember looking in the mirror in the hospital both during and after labour and thinking that I didn’t have any.

They all arrived three days after she was born instead

Thanks so much ladies for your messages, I'm hoping I can be lucky and have a happy healthy baby and no stretchmarks but it's encouraging to hear they fade quickly. The ones I got in my hips and legs as a teenager took years to fade. I'm drinking lots of water and moisturising day and night, so fingers crossed!!xx

@idontdrinktea they came three days after? As your tummy shrunk?

About three to four weeks after giving birth. I was not impressed.

I got TONNES during puberty which are still very deep but silvery.
However, I got none in pregnancy 1, one small one on my bum in pregnancy 2 (after the due date!), and none so far in pregnancy 3 (I'm 31+5).

FWIW, I used all the creams and stuff in puberty, I barely used anything in any pregnancy.

None until 32 weeks then I got loads on both my breasts and all over my bump....tends to be on the side where she pushes out the most but I've no idea if that's coincidence or not. Really gets me down if I see them in the mirror but I'm trying to remember I am growing a human and that's amazing in itself :-)

I didn't get any in pregnancy 1 and currently 25 weeks with number 2 and nothing yet. I have a few from weight fluctuations as I was growing up but no pregnancy related ones.
I think there is a lot of genetics involved. I didn't use anything on my skin at all but my mum didn't get them and neither did my sister.

I got mine at about 39 weeks. They faded to silver within a year though

I'll add that I only have three small ones, this is after three children. I put it down to dry skin! I'm always moisturising with whatever there is at home, nothing special. It's got to help I'm sure. I have thigh ones from puberty too, they're invisible now really.

None! And I had twins

Mine arrived at about 28 weeks. Dr kindy told me later on during pregnancy that they were the worst they'd seen - Dr was female too!!!

I was four days late ... they arrived on my due date 😭