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Reader Stories: Coping with Stretch Marks

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Interested in hearing about stretch marks in pregnant women? Read these journeys of when they found the stretch marks, how they treated them, prevented them or got rid of them postpartum. Here are all things stretch marks!

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Stretchmarks with Twins After Singleton

They started on my lower stomach and it looked like I only had a few. After loosing the baby weight more were visible on pubes, thighs front and inner, hips and stomach. I have a six pack with lines …More

Shantanique's Stretch Marks

At the bottom of my belly and around my belly button , they were very small and light, and still virtually are. I waved surprised thinking i wouldn't get them, but ooh well I'm still getting a tattoo…More

Chantel Shares Her Thoughts on Stretch Mark

I found them first off on my hips, then under my boobs and on the sides of my boobs, it's werid tho cause those ones have pretty much vanished but then I started to get them on my theighs and just ab…More

Anne's Ideas for Stretch Mark Removal

I was on the local super market about to buy a HUGE basket full of stretch mark products .... oh boy would my wallet hate me later . So I decided that I was going to try something else but what ... w…More

Gretta Longs for a Miracle Cure

Bottom of my belly groning upward. Also on my hips after the third pregnancy and across my lower back unfortunately. May womem say its the sign of a real women but hey not all of us keep our children…More

"They came in 5s..." Stretch Marks

I found them on my lower abdomen to mid-abdomen and were reddish purple. Although post-baby they have some what deminished but defintaely not disappeared. Its a constant reminder of by two beautiful …More

Stretch Marks - Learning to Live with Stretch Marks

I have a few on my breasts (though, being larger-breasted since puberty, I'd always had a few, long before pregnancy), but the ones that bothered me most appeared just under my bellybutton, where the…More

Stretch Marks

I found them on my breasts and on my stomach. I have one really gnarly looking one on my left side, where it formed right over a vein so it looks freaky, and feels that way too! I didn't get them any…More

What didn't work on my stretch marks.

I have them on my breasts, my back, my inner and outer thighs down my legs to my knees, my stomach right above my pubic hair, my hips and they aren't small they are huge red and angry. I'm so embarra…More

Topical Creams

On the hips and lower belly is where I noticed most of my stretch marks, but there were some little one's elsewhere. I had such big bad ones one pregnancy that it took a couple of years to have them …More

Not as bad as I thought it would be!

I had them on the bottom of my belly from the top of my underwear line to near my belly button mostly. I looked and looked for them elsewhere and didn't see any. Though I did get one on my breast tha…More

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