The marks often start out reddish or purple, but after pregnancy they gradually fade to white or gray.
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Gif. Getting rid of pregnancy stretch marks is a top priority for many women. Nourish your skin as it grows and prevent those tell tale red marks.
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Stretch marks are small, depressed streaks in the skin that appear most often on the abdomen in the later stages of pregnancy when the belly is rapidly in addition, the more your skin has to expand during pregnancy and the more quickly it happens, the more likely you are to develop stretch marks. Surgically removing stretch marks can leave scars. Pregnancy stretch marks aren't any different than stretch marks you get at other times of your life.
Stretch marks don't usually belong to the celebrated side of a postpartum body, but they are part of the experience nonetheless.
Stretch marks are very common during and after pregnancy. Stretch marks are most often associated with pregnancy because pregnancy hormones, like cortisol and estrogen, reduce the activity and effectiveness of the fibroblasts in your skin. Stretch marks in pregnancy usually occur in the third trimester, when the baby is growing the most. I'm guilty of probably wasting weleda's amazing stretch mark oil by applying it absolutely everywhere during pregnancy — including, you know, my knees and elbows.
