These stretch marks can appear from your belly to your feed and hands. They tend to appear in those particular areas where your skin becomes less elastic and more stretched. Stretch marks can usually be easily seen on arms and buttocks.
What Are Stretch Marks?
During pregnancy, the skin of your stomach stretches beyond it’s limits. This causes red-purple lines (stretch marks) to appear. The skin overstretches as the baby continues to grow, causing your skin to start cracking. This causes the skin to stretch and crack, causing stretch marks.
It’s hard to completely prevent stretch marks from appearing since every woman has different types of skin, elasticity and texture. There are, fortunately, steps that you can take to prevent an outbreak of these hedious lines.
Noted herein are some useful steps to be taken to avoid pregnancy stretch marks:
Avoid Overeating During Pregnancy
Although pregnant women are supposed to eat for two, it is not that they are eating for two adults. Hence, it is very important to eat in moderate portions and avoid overeating. You will increase your chances of getting stretch marks if you eat too much during your pregnancy. Overeating increases your overall body fat, which accumulates along with the growth of the baby. A pregnant women should not take more than 300 calories extra above her usual daily calory intakes.
Keep Drinking Water
Water is the best solution to everything. Drink plain water instead of juices and sugary drinks. Artificial fruit juices are packed with sugars and additives that can make you fat, whilst water helps in maintaining a slim body. Water also improves the elasticity of the skin that helps in avoiding pregnancy stretch marks.
Eat Healthy
It’s important to make sure you watch what you eat while pregnant. A healthy diet containing all the essential nutrients makes the skin healthier too. Have lots of fresh vegetables and fruits, proteins and whole grains and some fiber to maintain a functional system during pregnancy. You should also add milk or dairy based food to your daily diet.
Olive Oil and Grape Seed Extract
Our grandparents suggested the use of olive oil massageduring pregnancy and how it helped in preventing stretch marks from appearing. Well, it seems so foolish then, but it’s true. You can massage olive oil on the belly, buttocks and thighs as these are the most common areas for stretch marks to appear. Olive oil has excellent moisturizing properties that help in making the skin elastic.
Use Creams and Ointments to Remove Stretch Marks
If the stretch marks are already appearing on the stomach, start applying stretch mark creams immediately. The creams helps to reduce the effects of the stretching and ultimately remove them. However, if you are too late at using the creams, it might take time to disappear.
It isn’t really possible to avoid pregnancy stretch marks, but there are some lucky people who don’t get them. If you are not one of them you’ll need help.
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