I'm 6.5 weeks pregnant and i have a bump, now i'm looking for a good cream for my belly because i don;t want to have stretch marks after the baby comes, and i heard that when you have a bump you can start using it.
Thank you

I wouldn't worry about it until you are around your third trimester. You wont start getting stretch marks until your skin has stretched to it's max capacity and the only way for it to stretch more is to create more skin area.. aka stretch marks. I'm 7 1/2 months and no stretch marks yet. I didn't start using creme until 6+ months.
Just make sure when you do, you put it everywhere.. belly and boobs, maybe even hips. I haven't got stretch marks on my belly, but I do on my boobs. So be careful of that.

I've heard stretch marks can be genetic, so if your mum got them the chances are you will to, and no amount of cream will work? I didn't use anything and didn't get any on my belly and boobs but I have lots on the tops of my legs! The good point is they have faded to silver/white lines as opposed to the bright red lines I had when they first appeared.

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If you are gonna get them you will get them! not alot you can do about it.
using cream will make the skin more supple, but nothing will stop them completely.
Bio-oil helped reduce the look of mine.

Yeah I've heard they're genetic too so if you're going to get them there's nothing you can do. I already have them on my hips and tops of my thighs from puberty.

Still creams might help or at least reduce how many you get. Palmers cocoa butter or bio oil are meant to be good or you can just use baby oil after each bath or shower because it's meant to be more moisturising than most creams. Greasy though. You can just get a shops own brand because baby oil is made of only 2 ingredients anyway so I always think the brand names were a bit of a rip off.

Oh and apparently jelly is good too because the gelatin helps your bodys collegen and elastin which is what breaks and makes stretch marks.

My mom got stretch marks bad with her pregnancies, but I didn't get any with my first (and none so far). I do have stretchmarks from puberty though on my breasts, hips and lower back, so the genetic thing does apply, but I was very anal about using Palmers cocoa butter lotion with my first pregnancy and I think it helped a lot.

Really any lotion with vitamin E should do the trick, as it's the vitamin E that supports skin health. I happen to like Palmers because it smells so chocolaty and decandent. But sometimes I'll switch between that and Nivea.

Once a stretchmark has turned silver there's not much you can do about it. But if it's still a little red or purple, you can apply topical vitamin E or other creams to help diminish the mark.

Though im not PG .... i use palmers coca butter lotion every night before i go to bed ... boobies and thighs .... have a few over my boobies because of the sheer size of them lol.

Ive also heard a lot of good about bio oil, give that a try

It's good to know that not everyone who's got them from puberty got them in pregnancy. There's hope for me yet!

Indeed! When I was pregnant with #1, I dreaded getting the awful marks I knew my mom had

So I kept putting goo on my belly, morning noon and night, especially when I felt a little tight or itchy and I thankfully avoided those nasties.

Hoping to do the same with this one.