Eight months pregnant stretch marks

After a woman becomes pregnant, her body undergoes major changes, which is a huge test for her skin. Most women will have stretch marks. Some women have obvious stretch marks around four months, and they become more obvious and darker in color around eight months. Moreover, many pregnant women report that they experience itchy stretch marks during the eighth month of pregnancy. What is going on?

1. What should I do if my stretch marks are itchy at 8 months of pregnancy?

Do not go to theaters, dance halls, shops and other places where people gather, and avoid contact with patients with influenza, rubella, infectious hepatitis, etc. Try not to use medicine. Both viruses and medicines can affect your baby's development.

Stay away from electromagnetic pollution and keep a certain distance when listening to music or watching TV. Try to use computers, microwave ovens, mobile phones, etc. as little as possible. Pregnant women should not sleep with electric blankets when the heating is just turned off, because it can generate electromagnetic fields and is harmful to pregnant women and fetuses.

Avoid drinking strong tea, strong coffee and cola-type drinks. The most ideal drink for pregnant women is boiled water.

When washing clothes, use soap instead of washing powder; when washing dishes, choose detergent that does not contain harmful substances.

You must wash your hands after cutting raw meat, and make sure the meat is cooked thoroughly when cooking or eating hot pot. To prevent Toxoplasma in raw meat from infecting the fetus.

Do not immerse your hands directly in cold water when washing rice or vegetables. The cold stimulation may induce miscarriage. Families without water heaters should buy a few pairs of rubber gloves.

During the first month of pregnancy, the baby does not need much nutrition. However, from now on you must develop good eating habits, not be picky about food, and maintain a balanced nutrition.

Increase your sleep time by one hour every day and make sure you get enough rest.

Ensure adequate oxygen and take a one-hour walk in green space or shaded trees every day.

It is very important to be in a good mood. Although there is no direct connection between your nervous system and your baby's, there is communication of blood substances and endocrine system, and your emotional changes can cause changes in certain chemicals.

In terms of diet, you should choose light, delicious and easily digestible foods. At this time, eat as much as you can and don't worry too much about whether it is nutritious enough.

Be careful not to be dehydrated so that toxic substances in the body can be excreted through urine in time.

As long as they can supplement nutrition, pay attention to diet, and are well taken care of by their family, pregnant women can safely go through the pregnancy period. When it reaches the late stage of pregnancy, be sure to make an appointment in advance to give birth at the hospital, and don't cram at the last minute. In the later stages of pregnancy, your body may experience more obvious symptoms. If you really cannot handle it yourself, you must ask your family to take you to the hospital in time for the doctor to treat you.

2. How to eliminate stretch marks

1. Enhance skin elasticity

During pregnancy, you should avoid consuming too much sweets and fried foods. You should consume a balanced diet to improve skin texture and help enhance skin elasticity.

Recommended plan:

A. Eat foods that are beneficial to the collagen fibers in the skin to enhance skin elasticity.

B. Control sugar intake and eat less foods with high pigment content.

C. Drink two glasses of skim milk every morning and evening, and eat fiber-rich vegetables, fruits, and foods rich in vitamin C to increase the permeability of cell membranes and the metabolic function of the skin.

D. Exercise + massage increases skin elasticity. Before pregnancy, exercise more to strengthen your physical fitness, and do regular massages and cold water baths to enhance skin elasticity. This is just the preliminary preparation work and it is a process of persistence. And after pregnancy, you should also insist on moderate exercise, such as taking a walk, and don't be lazy and don't want to move. Think about it, your appetite will increase after you become pregnant. If you don’t exercise, your weight will increase rapidly. Ensuring moderate exercise every day can not only ensure the health of yourself and your baby, but also control your weight and prevent stretch marks. Massage is essential. Massage your abdomen every day to increase skin elasticity and prevent stretch marks.

2. Control weight gain

Your weight will increase during pregnancy, but it should not exceed 2 kg per month and should be controlled within 11-14 kg throughout the pregnancy.

Recommended plan:

A. Correct water drinking habits will speed up your skin elasticity plan. After getting up in the morning, you can drink a large glass of warm mineral water first. It can stimulate gastrointestinal motility and put the internal organs into working condition. In the early morning, it is very important to excrete waste from the body. If you are often troubled by constipation, you might want to add some salt to your water.

B. Adjust your eating habits. Eat fresh fruits as much as possible and drink less fruit juice. Drink skim milk and less whole milk. Drink clear soup and less thick soup. Eat more low-sugar fruits and less cookies and salads.

C. Moderate exercise or light housework can help restore skin elasticity. It is effective in increasing the skin elasticity of the waist, abdomen, buttocks, breasts, inner thighs and other parts.

D. Ensure a balanced, nutritious diet and avoid excessive intake of carbohydrates and excess calories, which can lead to excessive weight gain.

3. Use stretch mark protection products

In the early stages of pregnancy, start using the stretch mark protection essence that is rich in olive essence, "collagen elastic micromolecules" and various vitamins needed by the skin. Using it in the early stages of pregnancy can enhance skin elasticity, allowing the skin to fully adapt to body shape changes during pregnancy, and prevent subcutaneous fibers from breaking due to excessive stretching, thereby effectively reducing the appearance of stretch marks. For mothers with shallow stretch marks, it is necessary to use the stretch mark protection essence and the stretch mark repair essence together. This can activate the fibroblasts and regenerate the broken fibrous tissue. Continuous use can gradually fade the color of the stretch marks to normal skin color, and the unevenness will be significantly reduced until it disappears.

Recommended plan:

From 8:00 to 12:00, the vitality of the skin reaches its peak, and this is the most suitable time for stretch mark prevention care. Stretch mark protection liquid, stretch mark repair liquid, skin elasticity repair liquid, etc., provide gentle and delicate care for the skin of expectant mothers and reduce the worries brought by childbirth. Every day, take an appropriate amount of stretch mark repair liquid and apply it evenly on the abdomen, buttocks, breasts, and inner thighs, and gently massage for 2-3 minutes until it is completely absorbed.

Then apply skin elasticity repair liquid and gently massage for 5 minutes until it is completely absorbed. After 10 minutes, use stretch mark protection lotion. It will be more effective if you wipe your skin dry after bathing.

3. Are there any early symptoms of stretch marks?

1. When a woman is pregnant for more than 3 months, the uterus and pelvic abdomen protrude and develop, the abdomen begins to bulge due to the increased influence of the uterus, and the elastic fibers in the skin and abdominal muscles begin to stretch.

2. Especially more obvious in the first 6 months of pregnancy. When it exceeds a certain limit, the elastic fibers of the skin are broken and the transverse rectus abdominis tendon also separates to varying degrees. As a result, irregular pink or purple longitudinal cracks appear on the abdominal skin.

3. After delivery, although the broken elastic fibers are gradually restored, it is difficult to return to their previous state. The original cracks in the skin will gradually fade and finally turn silver-white, causing stretch marks to appear.

Common signs of stretch marks:

1. Your belly starts to itch

2. Red spots appear on the belly

3. Found that the color around the belly is different from the color of other parts of the body 4. Light purple lines began to appear on the belly

In the above article, we introduced what stretch marks are. We know that stretch marks have a great impact on female friends, so female friends should do a good job in preventing stretch marks. The above article gives us a detailed introduction to the precursors of stretch marks.

4. How to prevent stretch marks during pregnancy

To avoid the growth of stretch marks, you need to start with daily maintenance to improve skin elasticity, and also pay attention to pre-pregnancy maintenance.

Before pregnancy, you should pay attention to physical exercise and massage your skin frequently. You can also try to stick to cold water baths, which will help enhance the skin's tolerance and elasticity. People with better skin elasticity are less likely to develop stretch marks during pregnancy. At the same time, you should also pay attention to nutritional supplements. Eating more protein-rich foods can also help enhance skin elasticity.

After pregnancy, you should persevere in preventing stretch marks. You should insist on skin care and massage, and choose a suitable moisturizer. Secondly, you should insist on proper exercise. Exercise also has a good effect on increasing skin elasticity. Pregnant women can insist on taking walks. At the same time, you should pay attention to ensuring a balanced and nutritious diet, eat more foods rich in collagen, and avoid consuming too much carbohydrates and excess calories.

The following six methods are the main ways for pregnant mothers to prevent stretch marks.

1. Eat a balanced diet.

During pregnancy, pregnant mothers should avoid consuming too much sweets and fried foods, and should supplement with rich vitamins and minerals. Collagen fibers themselves are also made up of protein, so eating more protein-rich foods during pregnancy can help improve skin texture, increase skin elasticity, and prevent stretch marks.

2. Strictly control your weight.

Weight gain during pregnancy should be gradual. If the pregnant mother's weight gain is too rapid and not caused by illness, it needs to be properly controlled. Some pregnant mothers eat blindly for the health of the fetus, which leads to overweight. Excessive fat intake will not only accumulate in the body and abdomen, causing stretch marks, but is also not conducive to natural childbirth and will create certain difficulties for postpartum weight loss. Controlling your weight can effectively avoid the formation of stretch marks caused by fat accumulation.

3. Enhance skin elasticity.

Dietary adjustments and proper exercise are good ways to improve skin texture, increase skin elasticity, and prevent stretch marks. During pregnancy, you can eat more foods that are beneficial to collagen fiber, such as pig's trotters; at the same time, you should also eat more fruits and vegetables rich in fiber and foods rich in vitamin C. In addition, reduce sugar intake, eat less foods high in pigments, and avoid rapid weight gain.

4. Use stretch mark protection products.

Before stretch marks appear, consistent use of stretch cream and proper massage can help prevent them. However, when choosing a product, you must pay attention to the principle that it will not affect the baby or harm the baby in the womb.

5. Choose suitable maintenance products.

From the early stages of pregnancy, you can choose moisturizing lotion, olive oil, and massage cream products that suit your body type, and massage and rub the parts of the body where stretch marks are more likely to appear (thighs, stomach, buttocks) frequently. This can prevent the epidermis from drying out, improve epidermis moisturization, increase skin and muscle elasticity, and smooth blood flow, and have a significant effect on helping muscles adapt to weight gain and preventing skin elastic fibers from breaking.

6. Massage moderately.

Pregnant mothers can choose pure natural olive oil that is suitable for themselves and harmless to the baby for local massage after taking a bath every day. This can not only keep the skin moisturized, but also effectively enhance the elasticity and flexibility of connective tissue, improve the skin's expansion ability, and avoid the formation of stretch marks.