Is there anything out there that can really prevent stretch marks?
So many products seem to claim that they help reduce the chances of stretch marks developing and reduce their appearance once they do turn up. Yet at the same time none of the pregnancy advice websites seem to think any of them work. So how can brands continue to make these claims? I have had a look at each of the main brands and none seem to have any data that shows they work when tested on more than about five real women.
http://www.bio-oil.com/en-us/
http://www.palmers.com/
http://www.johnsonsbeauty.co.uk/body-care/skin-perfecting-oil/
Like most pregnant women, despite concerns that they probably don't work I have diligently smothered myself in cream every morning and night for the last few months. I have done this for the sad reason that anything that might help prevent my stomach turning in to a piece of modern art was worth a go! Yet here I am, ready to pop and my tummy is covered in stretch marks. Thankfully I have escaped marks on my breasts but who knows they may still turn up.
I am therefore left asking is it all just genetics? Was I always going to get the marks and was all the cream just a waste of time?What is sad about this situation is how low the marks make me and other new mums feel about ourselves.
There is a reason I have worked so hard to try and prevent them! The marks have arrived when my body is about as pregnant as it is possible to be, everything is huge, I can't walk anywhere without waddling and making myself look and feel like myself is becoming a real challenge. The knowledge that they will still be there once the baby is here is really getting me down. I'm sure its just hormones making me feel like this - I am going to have a baby soon and what could be more wonderful? However, to all the stretch mark cream and oil brands out there, I wish you would stop peddling false hope to huge number of women and just find something that really works!!!!
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