Early stretchmarks or something else?

[Fae1989]

Hi all

I’ve noticed some random marks pop up very quickly on both outer aspects of my hips (and one single one on the top of my leg). They’re pinky brown and look like bruises. They don’t hurt but blanch slightly when ribbed. I’ve nothing on my stomach I can see. Did anyone else’s stretchmarks start this way? They’re smooth and unrippled.

I’m 37+4 just find it weird I’ve none on my stomach but some both sides of hips!!

I had a couple of those, I think they're maybe veins? I have stretch marks too and they looked completely different when they started coming along

@melissa1215 Thank you for your reply! Did they disappear after pregnancy? I was really starting to think they were stretchmarks but they don’t run in straight lines which I thought they did.

Just out of interest how did early stretchmarks look for you?

Sorry for all the questions, I’m just perplexed as to what they are!

I have something like this on my thigh. Looks similar colour to my stretchmarks so I've been assuming it's either a few blotchy shaped stretchmarks or veins. I can take a pic tomorrow if it's useful to you :)

@Triskaidekaphilia that’d be great freest if you don’t mind, thanks so much!

Sorry, forgot to send pics yesterday. The random purplish marks are the ones on my thigh. The more red straight lines are my stretch marks on my belly. They may well both be stretch marks, especially as I've gained 5 inches around my thighs, but I won't really know until they start fading. Both came up around 30 weeks but the stretch marks started with a single one that rapidly spread, the purple has spread a little but not much for nearly 10 weeks.

Thanks for sending those! Yeah they’re kind of somewhere in between the two so I’m wondering if they could be both?! Hoping they bugger off after he’s born but not too fussed haha. They look a lot like yours

Saw a few more tiny ones on my hip today so think they are all stretchmarks. I've had them elsewhere since I was a teen, they take a while to fade but after that I don't find them visible at all. The skin texture does feel odd when you're prone to 100 in the same place like me but I've got used to them so I'm sure I can get used to my pregnancy ones!