When pregnant, you get very big, very, very quickly. Your belly gets full of baby. Your breasts bloat with milk. Your legs retain water. The skin on your back is dragged down by the weight at your front. And your bum can get very fat.
A friend said, as soon as I told her I was pregnant, "Vitamin E cream, on your tum, every day!" I asked what Vitamin E cream was, as I hadn't even heard of it. I followed her advice, and the skin on my tum looks no different than before I fell pregnant (the muscles are a different story entirely...)
I just wish I had of thought about all the other places that might stretch. The rest of me looks like marble, and I doubt I'll wear anything more revealing than a kaftan and jeans again. I wouldn't be surprised if I had stretch marks under my eyes from the bags of sleep deprivation too.
Anyway, once I gave birth, lost the water, and could see the extent of the scarring, I madly applied vitamin E oil every day, sometimes twice. It's much more potent that the cream, and doesn't have parabens. It's available from health food stores, and Lotus make an affordable one.
The vitamin E oil has helped mitigate some of the damage, but the scarring would probably not occurred had I applied from the first trimester, like I did on my tummy. Too late for me now, I guess, but hopefully you read this and remember when you are pregnant too.
A friend said, as soon as I told her I was pregnant, "Vitamin E cream, on your tum, every day!" I asked what Vitamin E cream was, as I hadn't even heard of it. I followed her advice, and the skin on my tum looks no different than before I fell pregnant (the muscles are a different story entirely...)
I just wish I had of thought about all the other places that might stretch. The rest of me looks like marble, and I doubt I'll wear anything more revealing than a kaftan and jeans again. I wouldn't be surprised if I had stretch marks under my eyes from the bags of sleep deprivation too.
Anyway, once I gave birth, lost the water, and could see the extent of the scarring, I madly applied vitamin E oil every day, sometimes twice. It's much more potent that the cream, and doesn't have parabens. It's available from health food stores, and Lotus make an affordable one.
The vitamin E oil has helped mitigate some of the damage, but the scarring would probably not occurred had I applied from the first trimester, like I did on my tummy. Too late for me now, I guess, but hopefully you read this and remember when you are pregnant too.
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