Ladies......stretch marks.....HELP!!!!?

Question

i am just about 30 weeks pregnant and i think i am getting stretch marks, do you know of any ways to get rid of them once my little penut is born? through out the pregnancy i have used coco butter and baby oil both of which have obviously not worked....do any of you ladies know what will???

my mother didnt get them with her first 2 kids only with the last but she was 7 years between first and last

Answer 1

I heard a mixture of vitamin E and aloe vera gel work great - for stretch marks and scars!

Answer 2

Wait until ALL your children are born and after you lose whatever weight can do. Then go to a downtown salon and get professional dermabrasion and chemical peels. This is painful and expensive, but works. It takes about 6 treatments. They scrub the skin until its raw and bleeding and THEN they apply a chemical on the skin to burn it. I would never do this on breasts on anywhere near the genital regions.

It cost me about a thousand dollars and mine are 90 percent gone. They were very deep. It took several months to heal and they looked worse and I got very depressed for a while, but now I'm glad I did it.

For you, I think once your baby is born, you will forget about your stretch marks. Everyone has them. If they bother you though, plastic surgurgy is the best.

ps. I tried the emu oil and the coco butter, the vitamin E oil and they all do no rid the deep stretch marks, like the dermabrassion and chemical peels could.

Answer 3

I don't know of any alternative, or natural methods that haven’t already been mentioned by you or others. I did find the following, however on cosmetic surgery options, or lack thereof on a web site. You're going to be a mother soon, you should try not to let yourself be stressed over this. It's not good for you or your baby.

"Abdominoplasty does have limitations. (Here comes the bad news). It will not remove stretch marks of your mid or upper abdomen (but it will shift them lower on your abdomen).
_____Although some physicians claim that lasers are effective in removing stretch marks, there is no evidence to support this. Most plastic surgeons think that lasers are ineffective in treating this problem. Lasers are effective in removing, vaporizing, and breaking down tissues. They do not generally repair tissues. Stretch marks represent torn tissue. Hence, improvement should not be expected from laser treatment. Moreover, clinical studies have shown no improvement in stretch marks after laser treatment."

I hope the rest of your pregnancy goes as well as it can. Oh yeah, congratulations.

-Echo

Answer 4

do not use palmers it did notwork-
i asked this same question about 2 wks ago and most people replied that stretch marks occur due to your genetic make-up, if your mother or grandmother {on both sides of the family} had them then you have no choice but to get them.
'Try 100% pure SHEA butter, i got stretch marks at the end of my 8th month even though i used palmers since i was 6 weeks pregnant and got them at the end- when i started to use the 100% pure shea butter i saw a difference------ but it has to be 100% pure shea butter
Merdema cream is something else {more expensive- $20 a tube}
but i will try these onve the baby is born if need be-
but the shea butter is doing its justice!

GOOD LUCK

Answer 5

First of all, there is NO cream that will get rid of them. Stretch marks are actually microtears in the skin, so they can not be eliminated by a cream. I have read some research on newer laser treatments that supposedly get rid of them. On the plus side, they will fade to white within a few months and may be hardly noticeable. Stretch marks tend to have a genetic component, so if you mom got them, you probably will too.

Answer 6

I apologize, I’m not a lady, but I do think I might have a solution for you! I’ve done research on the subject of stretch marks and it seems that most people say they just don’t go away. I was personally about as willing to accept that as I was to accept the claim that someone “can’t” loose weight.
I found two products that after studying them a bit, looks like they’d probably work (I have yet to put them to the test yet) Trilastin seems to be the most convincing, works on repairing the torn lower layer of skin, which is where the stretch marks occur. http://www.trilastin.com/
The other one is a line of products called Skinenergizer. One of the Skinenergizer products is a stretch mark treatment. It’s cheaper than the Trilastin and it looks like it’ll work, too. It just wasn’t as convincing as Trilastin. Here’s the website for it anyway:
http://www.skinenergizer.com/stretch_marks.htm
I hope this works out for you. Even if no one notices the stretch marks (which is likely), they still bother you. Let me know if these work out if you try them. And best of luck with the baby!

Answer 7

Drink lots of water at least eight glasses a day to help give latisity to your skin. After baby Mederma( you can get at wal-mart or any drug store). Also, there is an old remedy called mothers friend you would have to ask the pharmacist; sometimes they keep it behind the counter.Coco Butter does not work. Have heard of vit. E as well.. Ask your mom if she has any or many.. alot is just plain heredity. I'm a mother of two. Good Luck.

Answer 8

Nothing will get rid of them, or stop you from getting them. I know women that swore by Palmer's Cocoa butter, but women that use it and don't get them would not have gotten them in the first place. I know some women that used it everyday and their stomachs looked like a road map. Using Cocoa butter or vitamin E oil will help them fade, but will not get rid of them.

Answer 9

Everything I have researched is that there is no medical way to prevent stretch marks with creams. The stretch is way under the skin not on the serfice. Sorry!

Answer 10

I used cocoa butter every day throughout my pregnancy 3x a day every single day and after she was born to, I didn't get any stretch marks , so yes it does work .