Streach marks

[Stella39]

Hello,

Am stated showing streach marks... I have noticed that day by day the marks are increasing and started to cover my lower abdomen. Do they grow along with pregnancy... Am in 33 weeks...am sensing burning sensation on some marks.... What does it means?

Thanks in advance....

[expectingandhopeful]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e5-xroc0w8

[expectingandhopeful]

Not familiar with a video like that but you can find something on youtube I am sure. The first days of life you don't really bathe the baby but rather give it a sponge bath. Get 2 bowls of warm water and a wash cloth. Place baby on a towel. Put a little bit of soap in the first bowl and wash the baby gently. Then you use the clean water to wash off the soap. Don't use a lot of soap though or it will be hard to wash it off. You start with the head and end on a butt :-) It's fun but babies are usually cold and scream :-)

[Stella39]

At the very first days of my pregnancy  I always thinking about nothing but starch marks....lol... Now my anxity ends...:) Finally I got them...I hope when i hold my baby.. I will forget all these pains and marks :) ... Thanks for ur support....

by the way do you know any site that contains new born baby massage and bathing video...I haven't seen how to bathe a new born baby till now... I just want to prepare myself... As I am scared to hand over my lil one to dai...pls help me...

[expectingandhopeful]

I hear you! I got stretch marks the last week of pregnancy with my first daughter. I couldn't believe it. One day I got up in the morning and my belly was covered in them. Then I got them on my breasts when the milk came. It's so unfair that some women have flexible skin and don't get them!!! When you finally hold the baby in your arms none of that will really matter. Most women hav e stretch marks, even models it's just that their pictures are photoshopped :-)

[Stella39]

Thanks for ur response...me too using alovera cream...I was feeling like I wouldn't get streach marks... Was very happy... It's only five weeks to go... All of a sudden I got them.... I just hated streach marks...:((  let's see how worse they will become at the end of the pregnancy....

[expectingandhopeful]

:-( I guess this is the time that they come up. I am in the same boat. I just noticed couple of them this morning on the very botton of my abdomen. My stomach feels sooo stretched already. I put cocoa butter and sesame oil by neutrogena to keep the skin moisturized. Unfortunately they do get worse with the pregnancy. This is the time when your baby is generating fat so it's gettting bigger with every day. Stretch marks, or rather the tendency to get them is hereditary so not much we can do in this case. They do get lighter with time though, and are almost invisible once they heal depending on the lighting. Let's hope they don't get much much worse :-) I am carrying twins and am 30 weeks along. I am afraid in my case it's going to be much more visible. My partner calls them battle scars :-) so let's be proud of them. There's always laser treatment if they're really bad and dark :-)