Stretch Marks

I always just thought i wouldn't get stretch marks, i don't know why, i guess i just assumed because i've always moisturised and looked after my body that stretch marks weren't for me.

I was fine till about 28 weeks or so. Jamie was taking a belly picture of me and when i checked it out, boom! there were 3 little purple coloured lines on my hips. I was mortified and embarrassed. I quickly ran to the bathroom and applied copious amounts of bio oil and started to worry if there would be any more popping up any time soon.

Surely enough those 3 stretch marks were the beginning of the end of my lovely hips and stomach that i had looked after so well for the past 25 years.  

Over the next 12 weeks my collection of stretch marks grew and grew till they had marched there way from the back of my hips right round the front and across the bottom of my stomach. It was a love hate relationship. There were days when i would look at myself in the mirror and be extremely upset and depressed about my appearance. I was a young 25 year old women, would i ever be able to wear a bikini again? Then there were days when i would think, hey there not so bad, i am carrying a beautiful baby in there after all. 

The days were i felt upset about my body far out weighed the days were i thought they weren't so bad. I tried everything, bio oil, vitamin E cream i even spent $100 bucks on some miracle cream i found on the internet. Nothing seemed to slow down the rate at which they were appearing on my body. At the end of the day i admitted defeat and gave in to the fact that there was nothing i could do. 

The beginning of the end

Its now been 7 weeks since i had my little miracle and i'm still applying the bio oil twice a day. The stretch marks seem to be fading, but i know they will never completely go away. I started to get quite self conscious around my partner Jamie. If ever he busted in on me in the shower i would turn away so he couldn't see me. Jamie has been super supportive, telling me he doesn't care about my stretch marks and reminding me that they are a result of carrying our big beautiful child and that i should love them. I don't know if i'll ever love them, but i think he's right I carried a 10 pound baby in my belly and i should be proud of that and try and embrace these stretch marks a little more.

It may be time to hang up my bikini, but all is not lost thanks to the return of the 1 piece cozy. Thats something i'll be rocking this summer.


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