by Sabrina Garibian posted in Products

Preventing stretch marks is impossible, yet as a woman who cares about her appearance I still tried all the products I could while pregnant with each of my little ones.
I am not vain, but I never imagined that after three kids it would look like my kids clawed themselves out of my body. I have a ton of stretch marks that showed up in the home stretch of each of my pregnancies. I will never be able to wear a two piece swimsuit again, no matter how fit I get. I don't mind other battle scars I have; the chicken pox scars on my face from getting chicken pox as a toddler and scratching like crazy, the hole in my shin from falling during an indoor soccer match as a teen, or my beat-up knees, covered in dozens of scars from an adventurous childhood. The pregnancy stretch marks bother me so much, though. I wish preventing stretch marks was possible and easy. I went into my first pregnancy naive. Throughout all three of my full-term pregnancies I tried a few different products that I believe helped lessen the number of stretch marks I (do not) proudly wear.
Here they are:
1.Bio-Oil (Amazon, $8.47/2 fl oz.):

When I was pregnant with my first child I religiously rubbed Bio-Oil on my belly and hips twice a day for months. I didn't have any stretch marks by my ninth month and thought I would make it through unscathed. Around week 37 they hit and they were bad. I continued using Bio-Oil after I had my son, and I believe it helped reduce the appe...