Hi Debbi!
I've never had stretch marks (which is remarkable considering my size) and
it just caught me off guard. Kind of like tonight when I put make-up on them to
trick-or-treat and had a heart attack at how they looked like young women! LOL!
My husband started cleaning the rifle! Just kidding!
I will definitely try to help them not gain weight too quickly. Thanks for
the advice!

Angi



----- Original Message -----
From: Jim & Debbi Watson
To: CAHsupport@onelist.com
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 1999 4:22 PM
Subject: [CAHsupport] Stretch Marks


Sorry to hear your girls have the stretch marks gene, too! I think it is just
one of those things. My mom is a teeny thing who seldom has yo-yo weight
patterns and got horrible stretch marks when she was pregnant with me. I got
them as an your adolescent on the inside of my thighs. Needless to say that I
got them later when I was pregnant. I know ladies who got huge when they were
pregnant and never got stretch marks. I think either you are prone to them or
not. I will say the ones I had one my things are barely noticeable now, but I
do recall being a bit self conscious of them. I think the best you can do is to
try to have them not gain weight too rapidly....which can be a hard thing when
you are starting to get curvy.
-Debbi