Say “Goodbye” to stretch marks

After delivery, many new mommies have a common worry, the ugly skin stretch marks. How to say: "Googbye" to stretch marks?

Stretch marks are actually a special type of scar. Under normal circumstances, human skin elastic fiber and the rectus abdominis maintain the elasticity of skin, and within certain limits skin can be freely retractable. During pregnancy, mommy’s weight gains very fast, as well as the baby continuous growing in the abdomen, which makes the skin on the belly done over its limit. Thus, lots of collagen fibers in the skin are pulled off, and results in such scars. Besides the abdomen, the stretch marks will be found around the breast, inner thighs and buttocks.

At beginning, stretch marks usually are pink or purple-red irregular longitudinal cracks. Then, the color slowly fades until the post-partum, and eventually silver-white.

You will find that some expectant mothers produce a bunch of stretch marks during pregnancy, and some others’ skin remains smooth. Why? Part of the reason is that every one has different body conditions. Part of the reason is that those mommies know how to protect themselves from the stretch marks.

Here are four easy ways to prevent stretch marks. Since once stretch marks completely formed, it will be very difficult to get rid off and only slowly fade-out. Therefore, if you want to be completely stretch marks free, the most important thing is to do pregnancy prevention.

1. Increase skin elasticity

Before pregnancy, expectant mothers can do some physical exercise to increase the abdominal muscles and skin elasticity. Sit-ups, swimming, yoga are all good choices. During pregnancy, they should not stop exercising. Following doctors instruction, you can walk, swim, and do some gymnastics. Exercise during pregnancy can not only prevent stretch marks, but also increase muscle strength, and promote natural childbirth smoothly.

2. Control weight:

Expectant mothers who gain weight too quick will not only grow stretch marks, but also put the baby and their own health under risk. Maintaining steady weight gain during pregnancy is very important. In the first three months of pregnancy, expectant mother's weight should be increased by 1-2 kg. 4 months later, body weight per week should be increased by 0.5 kilograms. The best to control weight is to buy a weight scale at home, and measure the weight at about the same time everyday, say, in the morning. They can also draw a graph to keep control of their body weight changes.

Eat well: having a balanced diet is the key. Three meals a day with vegetables and fruits regularly, avoid eating too quickly which will increase the digestive burden and hurt the stomach. Stay away from high-fat, high sugar food, and avoid late-night snacks.

3. Moderate massage

The benefits of pregnancy massage are numerous. One of which is to increase the skin elasticity, prevent stretch marks from arising. Using some olive oil, baby oil to keep skin moist while massage will make it easy. If used in conjunction with certain professional massage oil specially designed for preventing stretch marks, the effect will be even better. Massage is a time consuming work. It needs to be kept from 3 months of pregnancy until 3 months of postpartum. It can effectively prevent stretch marks from deriving or dilute the formation of stretch marks.

Abdomen: starts from the navel in a clockwise direction, round and round, slowly draw the circle bigger and bigger.

Thigh: starting from the knee, through the thigh up into the rear hip.

Breast: From cleavage, using pulp from bottom to top, gently massage from the inside to the outside.

Each time, continues 10-20 minutes, twice a day. During the last few weeks, massage more times.

Fighting against stretch marks in three ways:

1, Postpartum desalination is very important: stretch marks after the birth of the baby will slowly fade out within a period of time, but it is almost impossible to eliminate completely. However, detail cares in life allows to make stretch marks are no longer deteriorating, and get faded.

2, Plastic surgery: If you are extremely bothered by stretch marks on the stomach, you can take advantage of a variety of medical method of diluting or reducing the appearance of stretch marks or scope. Pulsed light or a dye laser irradiation can accelerate the purple lines declining, while increasing collagen production, reducing the severity of stretch marks; laser micro-dermabrasion surgery can improve the scar tissue; acid can improve the skin color of the epidermis and thickness, but also make stretch marks appear less obvious; abdominal plastic surgery can easily remove stretch marks.

Attention: Before any medical surgery, make sure to consult your doctors in detail, don’t exchange your health for temporary beauty.

3, Diet, exercise and massage: after the birth of your baby pay attention to control diet and not overeat. Drinking more milk is a common misleading, because a balanced diet is much healthier than heavily count on one or few ingredients. Of course, do not forget to continue on appropriate exercise and massage, which can not only improve the relaxation of the abdomen, but also can control the further deterioration of stretch marks.