stretch marks

[KiraaBae]

My stomach hasn't really started itching until now in less then couple hours I'll be 11 weeks . what cream or lotion do anybody recommend I really don't want stretch marks I wanna try everything to not get them .

[Miyu19]

Consuming homemade bone broth is great, lots of collagen and gelatin.

I have stretch marks from growing 6 inches taller one summer, but I also wasn't a healthy eater in middle school going into highschool so I know I lacked in everything nutritionally.

I eat healthy now, take vitamins, have bone broth, consume food with tendons, etc now and don't have stretch marks currently thankfully. I also use cocoa butter externally. I'm 37 weeks along now and all tummy

[allieann90]

Cocoa butter

[thompsona0815]

Stretch marks are hereditary so if your mom had them, you're more likely to get them either way. I didn't get mine until 13 weeks but that was just on my breasts, but I didn't get them on my stomach until about 30 weeks. I've been using palmers cocoa butter but I'm going to start trying the Vitamin E oil, because it's good for perineum massage as well.

[tori512]

I was talking to this girl i know about sstretch marks and she told me she used vitamin E capsules from Sally's when she was pregnant, she would break them open and rub the gew from the inside of the capsule on her tummy and she kinda saw I was skeptical so she lifts up her shirt and she had no stretch marks at all!

[EmaleeJoy]

And mederma is expensive but there are studies backing it up and not just from stretch mark scarring but other scaring as well!

[EmaleeJoy]

Bio oil, mederma (starting 2nd trimester), ItWorks and a few other tummy butters that you can find at walmart. But you can't fully prevent stretch marks, they're heriditary and also just how your skin is.

[keepitcrooshx]

Bio oil! You can get it at a drugstore usually.

[XOCoffeeCandy]

So I'm reading the book what to expect when expecting 2008, and they say the best way to tell you're at risk of stretch marks is if your mom had them. I also heard it is better to eat collagen (skin develop)  and vitamin C (skin healing) in your diet then just rubbing it on with a cream. I would say that keeping your skin moisturized would still be a good idea, but I would advocate buying expensive creams (no studies to really back them up)