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Preventing Stretch Marks (And Erasing Them)

As you know I already have kids..and lots of them, so it is not a surprise that I have stretch marks all over me. I was like the walking stretch marks. My tummy has a lot of it. Stretch marks develops when your body surpasses its skin elasticity. The term stretch and mark is very easy to explain. The skin was stretched and leaves a mark. This is commonly related to pregnancy, as pregnant woman (obviously) stretched more than their skin’s elasticity. Stretch can also be present when you lose weight. It may lighten but it never disappear… and we woman does not like that very much.

So are you really on the look out for a good product that can prevent stretch mark during pregnancy? They say applying coconut oil in your tummy can do the trick. I never liked the sticky feeling of coconut oil. My hubby’s niece (who is a med rep) recommended Elovera Cream (by Glenmark). She says that the product is safe to use even though I am preggy. I asked my OB about it and she says yes, I can use the product. I noticed that my tummy looks a bit smoother now, compared to my last three pregnancies. I also apply this cream to face and I have seen a big difference.

What made this cream a miracle cream? Alovera and Vitamin E. As it is with coconut oil (rich in Vitamin E), it has VItamin E. VItamin E is very known to make your skin look good and Alovera moisturizes the skin. It is now wonder that this cream is very good on making me beautiful and (almost) stretch marks free. It may not erase the stretch marks but it really lightens the marks and made it almost invisible.

Elovera can be bought in any Mercury Drug outlet or ask your OB about it.

Maternity Belts

I had my prenatal check up last Saturday. According to my OB, my belly fats are making it difficult for my back. I need a maternity belt! Yes, more than 50% of my tummy are fats and not the baby. A long walk makes me feel like I am about to give birth. The OB says that since I already have three pregnancies prior to this one, my ovary, my bely (and almost everything about my body) were a bit over worn by now, imagine a bacon garter on your undies. OK not that bacony, but you do get the point right? And so the solution is maternity belt to hold my bulging belly fats out of my vajayjay way. Who would have thought that having a lot of kids can be this complicated?

Anybody here tried using this kind of pregnancy product?

Hours Before Ultrasound

I just want to share with you, elaborately, my feelings during my ultrasound. This is the first time that I will have an ultrasound at four months. And the first time that I want to know badly what the baby’s sex is. This will be my last pregnancy and I can’t just hope for 7 months and be disappointed in 5 or 10 minutes. Deep within me I was really hoping for a baby girl. In my head, it’s a boy. My mind is telling me that scientifically we can’t have a girl.

Lot of factors contributes for me to think that it was a boy. The first, being my husband’s semen is acidic. I have read from somewhere that for you to have a baby girl, the vagina of the mommy should have an acidic ph level. The explanation behind this is that, the sperm cell carrying the y chromosomes (that says the baby is a boy) can be killed easily. The y sperm is actually the weaker one, although it swims faster, its life span is shorter than the x sperm (which says the baby is a she). And since my hubby’s semen is acidic and as you can see we already have three boys, it is safe to assume that it won’t be effective to us. The chances of us having a baby girl through this are very slim.

Then there’s another way where it takes advantage, again, of the fact that the y sperm cell has shorter life span. They say that you should do it, days before ovulation, and so the time that the egg cell is released from the ovary, the only surviving sperm is the one carrying the x chromosome. Uh, not again, as I remembered it correctly and based on what I felt during the intercourse, I am ovulating right at that moment.

And so as I browse around Megamall, looking for a cheaper place to have an ultrasound, my mind and heart was in war. I knew about In My Womb but thought it was too expensive, but ended up there, well I have no choice. After some minutes of waiting for the OB, they finally led me to a small room. Lay down and was asked to show my stretch mark filled tummy. A good twenty minutes is all it takes and I am in heaven. During the time that the OB was explaining and checking the baby, counting the fingers, heart rate, diameter etc, the more important things, my mind is winning (it says it’s a boy dammit! Stop hoping!). And so when she finally says let’s take a look on the sex and we can’t find any balls, I was ecstatic, I was happy; I was everything words cannot explain. It was more than having a Page Rank of 10, more than having an Alexa ranking of 1, it was more than having 100 comments a day. The feeling was more than I could imagine, more that I have ever felt in my whole life. Oh shit just right now while writing this, I am crying. I cried a little, was embarrassed to do a cry a river scene there. I kept my composure but my whole body is aching, there is so much happiness in me that I need to let out. As soon as I got the results I went to the nearest bathroom and poured my emotions there. I guess I convinced myself too much that it was a boy. I really did not expect it to be a girl. I know now how it feels when you want something so bad but gave up on it already.

And so from then on, our excitement for our Sati hasn’t died down..