I swear these weren't here when I gave birth! (I was shirtless all the time, always looking at my stomach, and even 4 days before birth my CNM said during an exam "wow, no stretchmarks!")
I noticed a few faint lines on my stomach under and around my navel about a week and a half after giving birth and now they seem to be getting darker and more pronounced! I know that it would've been hard for me to see the ones on the underside of my belly during pregnancy, but I'm seeing a lot more on the sides of my navel, and I know I wouldn't seen those.
So...any ideas? Do you think these will be getting worse? Why would I be getting stretchmarks now (2-4 weeks postpartum)? Anything I can do (wearing an abdominal support)? (Note, I didn't have them first pregnancy, but have a lot on my hips that I've had for years.)
**I'm very grateful to have had a healthy pregnancy and baby and know that stretchmarks are very common and not something that's a big deal at all. That said, I'm a little thrown off since I didn't see them earlier and I have lots of other signs on my body and in life to remind me of pregnancy and motherhood.
I do want to minimize them, but mostly I'm puzzled by their late appearance!**
I noticed a few faint lines on my stomach under and around my navel about a week and a half after giving birth and now they seem to be getting darker and more pronounced! I know that it would've been hard for me to see the ones on the underside of my belly during pregnancy, but I'm seeing a lot more on the sides of my navel, and I know I wouldn't seen those.
So...any ideas? Do you think these will be getting worse? Why would I be getting stretchmarks now (2-4 weeks postpartum)? Anything I can do (wearing an abdominal support)? (Note, I didn't have them first pregnancy, but have a lot on my hips that I've had for years.)
**I'm very grateful to have had a healthy pregnancy and baby and know that stretchmarks are very common and not something that's a big deal at all. That said, I'm a little thrown off since I didn't see them earlier and I have lots of other signs on my body and in life to remind me of pregnancy and motherhood.
I do want to minimize them, but mostly I'm puzzled by their late appearance!**
I'm like you, have lots on my hips/thighs, but two babies and none on my belly, now I have a couple on my lower belly and I blame it on the fact I gained more weight this time than in my previous two pregnancies. I didn't notice them before delivery, but I was pretty big and they could have been there. For some reason my stomach poked out on one side more than the other and that is where the stretchies are.
