*Scream* The dreaded stretch marks!!!?

[Spanks]

I'm 30 weeks and just discovered on my hips, kinda up on the sides of my butt there are lots of little purple stretch marks coming in. I don't have any on my belly or anything, but these are the worst kind of stretch marks. They're purple and they feel like they're gonna be deep and it looks like I got little scratches all over. I am 5'2" and 120 to start and now I'm 150. I thought my weight gain was about average, but these stretch marks are really messing with my head!! I have 8 weeks left, how fat and scarred up am I going to get?!?! I know I sound shallow and this is the price to pay to get my daughter and I'm a little crazy and pregnant right now. I just feel so hideous, someone else tell me your pregnant stretch mark horror stories. I don't want any "I was lucky, I never got any" kind of answers or I might just scream.

 

[i_heart_my_soldier_xoxo]

oh yes..they are dreaded!! I hate them more than anything. I thought i was doing great because i didnt have a single streatch mark and then in the last 2 weeks of my pregnancy i dont know what happened but i got covered in them. finally after 16 months they have faded though. they are still very noticable but they are just skin colored, no longer dark purple and red. I was about the same size. 5'2 and started at 130. gained 45 pounds. Goodluck thats all I can say..once they've started there isnt much you can do about it. Its just the price we pay to be mommies