Re: Pregnancy and Stretch Marks...

[Guest guest]

Yeah, I don't buy the gene theory either. I'm on my 40th week of pregnancy and

I've

gained 50 pounds (I'm really tall and started off pretty skinny), the baby is

pretty big, I

think he is going to be at least 9-10 pounds and my belly is enormous, but I

don't have a

single stretchmark and my belly skin looks nice, smooth and very elastic. All of

my female

relatives had a lot of stretchmarks starting early on during their pregnancies.

My guess it's due to: healthy diet, with plenty of good fats, good oil

supplements, high

dose Vit C reg I'm on, good skin care (I put Vit E Oil in the morning and Cocoa

butter at

night) and just overall healthy lifestyle.

I do have some stretchmarks in other places that appeared during my teenhood

when

everything suddenly grew really fast. Back then my diet was very poor and

overall lifestyle

was very unhealthy, but I don't know if that any indication of anything...

Just a thought...

Elena

>

>

> After reading NAFD, and a few other books with pictures

> of natives, I noticed something interesting, almost a complete

> lack of the multitude of stretchmarks that seem to plague

> modern mothers. Some loseness of skin yes, but not the other.

>

> I am a mother too, and have some stretchmarks, though not

> many at all on my stomach.

>

> I always hear the " gene " copout. But, I know its more than that.

> Stretchmarks cannot be a sign of healthy skin. I mean, a womans

> body will change a bit after pregnancy, but having skin that

> cannot handle a growing uterus doesn't seem normal to me.

>

> Any input on this?

>

> -T

>

[Guest guest]

I'm also tall and on the skinny side but gained between 60-90 pounds with

both my pregnancies, and nary a stretch mark. My doctor and midwife were

both amazed that I had gained that much weight (with no complications to

boot), and they didn't see any stretch marks. Well, my obgyn (with first

pregnancy) was more amazed than my midwife, whom I suspect sees more

health-conscious mothers. I took a high-dose vitamin c during both

pregnancies, and obviously ate adequate amounts of good food during both

pregnancies. I do have some stretch marks from a period of weight gain and

loss in my twenties when I was on birth control pills. Oh, the other thing

that I find interesting is that I am pretty old, 35 with my first, and 40

with my second. You'd think I'd have more stretch marks than average.

I attribute it to adequate nutrition, for sure.

[Guest guest]

I didn't quite follow the Klenner protocol, but I did take 3,000 mgs after

the first trimester, then I took 4,000 during the second, and third. I also

followed the WAPF diet for pregnant and nursing mothers, which I think had a

lot to do with it.

[Guest guest]

> I think the interesting thing about this discussion is, if women today

> need 4 grams of C to prevent stretch marks, but the folks Price

> studied did not have them, and presumably did not get anywhere near 4

> grams of vitamin C, why did they not need that amount of C? What is

> the C compensating for?

All the vitamins/minerals etc that are missing in our impoverished soil???

Elena

[Guest guest]

My understanding is that zinc deficiency also contributes to stretch

marks.

Desh