This is the second part of tips on how to prevent stretch marks. The first concerned a couple of patents, which I encountered for maternity braces. However I could find no evidence of this particular brace actually in production, although there are others, perhaps it was adapted along the way, who knows? What I do know though is that my daughter and her “exercise during pregnancy” group were extremely interested in this patent that was filed in October 2000 and gave it great consideration in their discussions on how to prevent stretch marks.

Whilst trying to find out how to prevent stretch marks, I encountered another patent, which was filed in March 1997. This is a way to prevent stretch marks during pregnancy by diagonally taping a polyurethane sheet backed with adhesive over the stomach area for most of the pregnancy period. The theory behind this development seems to be preventing the stretch marks, which are caused because of skin tension. Once again if you know any more about this product and whether it was ever developed – let us know.

Putting all this aside lets look at what you can do in the here and now to prevent stretch marks so you won’t have to think about laser surgery for stretch marks later. Firstly it is important during your pregnancy to eat balanced healthy diet to keep your weight gain within the suggested range of twenty to twenty five pounds. First-rate nutrition is not only important to the developing baby but also is a factor in the health and strength of your largest organ in your body, the skin. Also a steady weight gain allows your skin to stretch at a steady rate, so it is less likely that stretch marks will form. If you massage the areas of existing stretch marks or areas where you wish to prevent stretch marks, this will increase circulation which can be beneficial.

During pregnancy, keep the skin substantially and effectively moisturized. Try out one of the many stretch mark or skin care products and keep to the instructions. These are specially formulated to prevent stretch marks and will help keep your skin elastic and supple. Most contain vitamins, which additionally act as a skin food and enhance the production of collagen and support the dermis. This protects the skin despite the vast stretching.

Hope you have enjoyed the article. It’s time for a well deserved break. Speak to you soon.

Hello, today I begin to talk to you about how to prevent stretch marks but first I need to close my door. Today we have the meeting of the clans in our lounge again; by this I mean my daughter and her friends, all in the early stages of pregnancy, who meet together once a week for their club “exercise during pregnancy.” You might have heard me previously mention that most exercise involves their tongue and lifting their teacups. There is always a great deal of talk about their pregnancy, skin, dry skin, skin care product, instructions for exercise, stretch marks during pregnancy and tips to remove, reduce and prevent stretch marks.

Well they have sure come up with a strange one today. Men of my senior will probably either remember wearing braces or at least their fathers wearing them to hold up trousers and even socks and I believe there was some sort of revival some years back but a maternity brace, what is that?

Well remembering that this article is pertaining to how to prevent stretch marks. A patent was submitted for a maternity brace to provide support for the stomach and vulval regions of a woman during her pregnancy. This brace has a middle vulval panel and a pair of rear and front straps attached to it. It is the stomach panel positioned between the two front straps, which hold up the stomach. The straps both rear and front are not linear to add support and comfort. It is assumed that wearing this type of maternity brace during pregnancy helps to prevent stretch marks.

I have not actually seen this brace in production anywhere and if you have perhaps you will be good enough to correct me. Not only is this brace designed to prevent stretch marks but also varicose veins, back pain hemorrhoids, reduced blood circulation, increased wear on hip and knee joint and overall fatigue.

Another patent applied for is an adjustable maternity brace including an elastic portion, which adjusts with the heat of the body, rigid support member. It also has a removable front panel connected to the ends of the elastic member. The front panel is adapted to lie against the abdominal portion so the woman can wear during pregnancy to help support the weight of the baby. There is no mention whether this is to prevent stretch marks or not. This sounds similar to the type on sale at the moment but once again I am more interested in the first version as are the “exercise during pregnancy” group so if you have any information contact us. Part two shortly.

Welcome to the second article for today on preventing stretch marks. If you found that I was not my usual chatty self earlier on, then I do apologize. All this talk of stretch marks by my wife and daughter was becoming, well, just a little too much and I was keen to give my legs a stretching on the golf course. This is my daughter’s fourth pregnancy and she is keen on preventing any further stretch marks developing in this pregnancy and would like to remove the stretch marks from her previous ones.

I am very patient with all this and spend a great deal of time researching on the Internet for my wife and daughter for tips to prevent stretch marks and products to help remove or reduce stretch marks. This morning however my wife and daughter dropped the bombshell, or that’s what it felt like to me, they would like me to research on exercise during pregnancy. AND maybe I would like to clear the large old shed out at the bottom of the garden, so my daughter can have some friends around, who are also in the early stages of pregnancy, for a small exercise club.

Me and my big mouth, I said they just as well go the full hog and use the lounge, I didn’t mean this seriously, but there you go, Wednesdays are to be a social get together, for light exercise, discussions on preventing stretch marks and whatever women in the early stages of pregnancy talk about. How silly of me, beauty tips, skin care, skin cream, the pregnancy and of course the baby, not forgetting all the baby stuff. Maybe they can start a knitting club next!!!

In the last article I gave you several choices for preventing stretch marks olive oil, cocoa butter, coconut oil and a choice of essential oils. Whichever you choose they all work extremely well to keep the skin supple.

I am feeling much better now, I have had an excellent game of golf and had a good moan at you, so now I think that I can put all thoughts of preventing stretch marks aside for the moment, as there is a wonderful smell coming from the kitchen and as it’s nearly time for our meal, I need to go and investigate. I believe I might have mentioned before that my wife is a wonderful cook. Talk to you soon.

In the first article titled how to remove stretch marks, I talked to you about laser surgery, breast augmentation, and tummy tuck and also stretch mark cream. I stressed that when using a stretch mark cream it is necessary to find one that penetrates more than the top layer of skin, otherwise it does not reach the layer where collagen is made and consequently not very effective.

As I write this wife and daughter are tidying up our lounge after this mornings sit in of pregnant women. In case you have not been following my articles, my wife and daughter have a weekly get together, a sort of exercise class, though most exercising is by tongue, a get together to talk about how to remove stretch marks, skin treatment and skin care product, pregnancy, the baby and baby clothes. If you ask me they should be talking about preventing stretch marks because removing them it’s a lot harder than preventing. Any day now I am expecting them to produce a manual of instructions regarding such subjects. It’s OK, I’m only joking here but I never know what to expect next.

When considering how to remove stretch marks you might be interested in a fairly new type of surgery called Coolbeam. This is an amazing innovative treatment for both old and new stretch marks, an alternative to surgery, stretch mark cream and microdermabrasion. The Cool Beam process involves the whole surface of the skin being cooled with a special device. Successions of light pulses are passed quickly on the outside of the skin. The skin cells take in the energy of light. This causes an instant vaporization of the surface cell. Each time as the light passes over your skin, a minute amount of tissue is removed. This is a great method if you are wondering how to remove stretch marks because the treatment removes the skin according to the depth of the stretch mark. Once the scarred skin is removed, new skin will re-grow rapidly in its place. Different to other laser surgery, Coolbeam does not need a recovery period. The outcome of treatment with Cool Beam to remove stretch marks is long lasting. Most people require treatments in sequence to achieve optimal results. This skin treatment is considered safe and painless, though a temporary change in pigmentation, swelling, and some discomfort can occur in the treated area.

When considering how to remove stretch marks, you may also need to consider how much is in your bank balance. The national average cost for a Cool beam treatment is $5000. Just think, that will pay my membership to the golf club for more than the rest of my lifetime.

Topics of conversation, on how to remove stretch marks, skin treatment, pregnancy and the baby, are used in our house, by my wife and daughter, as an excuse to sit down, have a cup of tea and while away an hour or two. Topics of conversation on the golf course regarding fibrositis, which is a type of muscular complaint, are an excuse for someone’s bad golf. What do they have in common? Excuses, I frequently hear.

This first part of how to remove stretch marks will be looking at laser surgery. Laser surgery is one of the few methods of removing stretch marks, which has lasting effects. Laser surgery is painless but involves a time consuming process. The science behind the use lasers to remove stretch marks is that it preserves by repairing the skin’s normal synthesis of collagen. This is a protein rich composite in the body that looks after and renews skin tissue. Laser treatment for stretch marks works to encourage new development of depleted collagen. It eliminates injured skin tissue, closes up broken blood vessels and mends the fibers of the dermis. This helps to plug the stretch marks. Laser surgery can also be used as a skin treatment for skin acne and scars.

If you do not wish to consider surgery but are still wondering how to remove stretch marks, then stretch mark cream also follows the same method of treatment but not all creams are very effective. This is because not all stretch mark cream penetrates below the top layer of the skin. Therefore not reaching the dermis, which is the layer where the skin makes collagen.

When considering how to remove stretch marks and laser surgery, it is necessary to remember that despite its advertised effectiveness, treatment by laser surgery can be extremely costly. There are other types of surgery to remove stretch marks; one of these is the tummy tuck. Women often consider this when looking into how to remove stretch marks after a pregnancy because this method not only removes the stretch marks but also surplus fat and skin, leaving a firm, smooth waistline, free from stretch marks.

Likewise for the woman suffering from stretch marks on the breasts, they could consider breast augmentation to enlarge or tighten which will remove their stretch marks at the same time. Thank goodness my wife and daughter are not considering these extremes and are just looking for a good stretch mark cream. If you look around you can find one, which penetrates the dermis, therefore showing positive results.

Hello, welcome to part one of how to prevent stretch marks. Well according to my wife and daughter nobody wants to develop stretch marks. My daughter says pregnancy is bad enough. She and her friend run a club each week in our lounge called “exercise during pregnancy” I believe I have mentioned this before, they spend a great deal of time talking about all aspects of pregnancy and the awaited arrival of the baby.

Their topics are rife with words that begin differently like preventing, prevention, skin care product, removal, get rid of, and guess what they all finish the same with stretch marks. To be fair to them they also have a moan about all the negatives of pregnancy, the constant trips to the toilet, backache, nausea and tiredness. Then there’s dry skin, skin care products, baby clothes and of course how much weight they’ve gained.

So actually that’s quite a lot of words, far more than you will ever find on the golf course. We do use some funny terms though, like, lining up the third putt. All this really means is that you are having a bad hole. It just possible that I have wandered away from the subject of how to prevent stretch marks, I wonder why. Maybe I have ADD.

A good tip for prevention, (just in case I am confusing you, we are talking about stretch marks again), is to eat a well balanced nutritional diet and drink plenty of water. Water is crucial to healthy skin. If you think that drinking coffee, tea or other manufactured beverages and believe these are desirable substitutes for the natural water need of your body, then this is a terrible mistake.

Be aware that to prevent stretch marks, it must be water; it is true that these other drinks contain water but they also include a dehydrating agent, which dehydrate the water they are dissolved in, and additionally the reserves of your body. This causes your skin to be dehydrated and dry and adds to the risk of stretch marks forming during pregnancy.

My daughter and her friends have been experimenting with different stretch mark creams and skin care products containing cocoa butter and Vitamin E in an attempt to prevent stretch marks. There are plenty of creams containing these ingredients claiming to prevent, reduce and get rid of stretch marks. Always massage them well into the skin as this stimulates the circulation, speeding up the action of the cream. You might want to experiment and see what works for you. It always takes a few weeks for cream to take effect. I will let you know the results but I hear that Trilastin does the trick.

This is the second article on pregnancy stretch marks. The first one probably was not to informative as I spent my time and word quota, having a good moan about my wife and daughters obsession with stretch marks, skin care, pregnancy and past pregnancies and how all this was affecting my time on the golf course.

I intend, and intention is everything is it not, to make this article more interesting an informative, so here we go. Pregnancy stretch marks materialize as raised red or purple welts, generally on the breasts and stomach, though they may develop on the lower back and legs. Gradually many will lighten to white welts.

Usually 75% of women get stretch marks during pregnancy, (notably my wife and daughter, well I couldn’t resist having just a little dig, could I) most often in the sixth or seventh month. They come about because the stomach is very distended or the skin stretched over a period of time. Your pregnancy and the stretching of the skin, causes the skin’s support structure, elastin and collagen, to break down.

The skin is built up in three layers, the outer layer is the epidermis, the middle layer is the dermis, and the inner layer is called the subcutaneous. This is where fatty tissue is accumulated. How do I know so much about pregnancy stretch marks? Well just in case you have not been following previous articles, how to prevent stretch marks and how to get rid of stretch marks are the main topics of conversation in our house between my wife and daughter these days.

My job is to research pregnancy stretch marks for them, to give them something to talk about with their morning cup of coffee and afternoon tea and when out shopping for maternity and baby clothes. I guess you’ve got the picture by now.

The dermis is the skins support and it is kept firm by its structure, collagen. This is the layer in which stretch marks come about. Healing the damage caused by stretch marks must take place at this level. Something that will interest my wife and daughter, apparently there is a hereditary factor with pregnancy stretch marks. If your mother gained stretch marks throughout her pregnancy, you are likely to as well.

As my daughter is in her first trimester of this pregnancy, maintaining moisture with a good skin care product for stretch marks will improve the elasticity of her skin and prevent further stretch marks forming. It is good that she recognizes the need to drink adequate water to maintain water balance from inside out. Pregnancy stretch marks need not be a problem, nor should getting to the golf course tomorrow, especially after my hard work today.

Hello once again. My daughter who is in her first trimester of her forth pregnancy lives three doors away from my wife and myself and she and my wife are constantly talking about pregnancy stretch marks and ways to make them disappear. Other words, which are bandied around our house on a regular basis, are maternity, past pregnancies, exercise during pregnancy, skin care, birth, baby and the strong favorite – How to prevent and get rid of stretch marks.

Do they mention a golf club or something that might be of interest to me, no chance but as I may have mentioned once or twice before, my wife is simply the best cook ever and meal times are the highlights of my day and when I can escape to the golf course. This makes all the talk of stretch marks bearable.

I am their unpaid researcher; in my own time I like a good game of golf or to be in the garden or my greenhouse. Tomatoes do not get stretch marks, though if they are given insufficient water, they do split. I guess that something tomatoes and the human race have in common, the need for a good deal of water, not over watered of course.

My daughter uses a cream everyday to try and prevent any future stretch marks developing but has several from her previous pregnancies and so is always on the look out for something to get rid of these. My wife also has some stretch marks she would like to get rid of. I don’t really understand why she makes such a big deal after all these years and yes I am always being told I don’t understand. Who said it’s a mans world. Is it just that us men don’t consider ourselves this vain and after all we don’t have to have the babies, do we. Pregnancy stretch marks, what does a mere man know about these. I think they are a bit insensitive to my feelings here. I do try to understand.

I do seem to have got carried away with self-pity throughout this article, for this I apologize. I don’t really feel sorry for myself and in fact have a good deal to be thankful for. I have a wonderful wife, a lovely daughter, three lively grandchildren, another on the way and stimulating talk regarding pregnancy stretch marks. What more could any man want from life?

This article will be looking at microdermabrasion as a stretch marks treatment. This treatment has been used for decades to remove wrinkles, superficial age spots, acne scars, improve the look of sun-damaged skin and as a stretch marks treatment. Fine micro crystals are used to remove the dead skin. This skin treatment to remove stretch marks is painless and only takes about half an hour. Are you impressed with me so far, I managed to write a paragraph and a half, albeit short paragraphs before the need to digress.

Just thought you might like to know how my day went. I have spent most of it on the computer researching a stretch marks treatment for my wife and daughter. Again. It seems this is all I have been doing for the last couple of days. Pregnancy stretch marks can be pretty stressful for both men and women as you can see. It has been raining all day so unable to seek refuge in the garden or have a game of golf. As you know my wife and daughter went shopping this morning and you would have been right if you thought, more clothes for the baby. They also managed to find some leaflets on a new stretch mark cream.

Now where was I? Ah! Stretch marks treatment by microdermabrasion. This treatment to remove stretch marks is available in salons and from the doctor’s clinic. The clinics usually use a higher power machine than salons. It is also possible to buy a machine to use at home as a stretch marks treatment.

This stretch marks treatment does not work on deep scars and myself I might be a little concerned about the possibility of inhaling the aluminium oxide crystals. I must say that this is just a personal concern of mine and most doctors are of the opinion that aluminium oxide is not hazardous when ingested and they consider it safe for use as a skin treatment in microdermabrasion. Never the less there is a great deal of debate regarding its side effects, so I reiterate, it is a factor to be considered. It looks like I have a reprieve, well from researching a stretch marks treatment anyway. My wife is calling me. Throughout my daughter’s pregnancy, the two have them have been storing all the clothes for the new baby and at this moment the lounge is covered in baby clothes for me to look at.

The table is also rather littered with the pamphlets they acquired this morning regarding the new stretch marks treatment, so it looks like I’m going to be busy, doesn’t it.

Today we will once again be looking at ways to get rid of stretch marks. First a musing on procrastination, which comes from the Latin meaning “for tomorrow”, in other words putting off what you could do now, for tomorrow or until the last possible moment. My wife and daughter are always accusing me of this. I believe they are wrong because someone who procrastinates feels guilty, loses confidence and is self-critical. Me, I don’t suffer any of this, it’s just that I prefer to be playing golf or be in my garden instead of doing what they “think” I should. As with all things it really does depend on the perspective you have. My life doesn’t revolve around skin care, pregnancy, and the baby on the way and how to get rid of stretch marks. Theirs does and I wouldn’t have them any different but I’m not one hundred percent sure that they feel the same way about me.

I have been reading about coconut oil. It isn’t by chance that people, who live in places where coconut oil is both used for the body and in the diet, have beautiful hair and skin. Massaging coconut oil into your skin is a great way to prevent and get rid of stretch marks. Coconut oil protects you from free radical damage internally and externally. It is excellent for dry skin and well helps you avoid wrinkles and lines. By keeping the skin in good condition it will help prevent stretch marks appearing in the future.

When you use coconut oil with its antimicrobial properties to replace unsaturated fat in your food or apply to your skin it reduces free radical damage and you look more healthy and beautiful. When you need to get rid of stretch marks coconut oil can be more effective than many other products, manufactured to treat dry skin, skin regeneration and stretch marks. When applying coconut oil to get rid of stretch marks, a little can go a long way. It is best used right after a bath or shower. Leave your skin slightly damp and apply a thin layer on any problem areas.

When using any product to get rid of stretch marks, you can accelerate skin regeneration by using an exfoliating tool or body rub to remove the dead skin cells. I will speak to you later with more on how to get rid of stretch marks.