My baby is now 7 months old and the sweetest little human. I have been fortunate enough to be pregnant twice in my life. A woman’s body carries the memories and the reminders of how a tiny life grew inside you, and nobody should be ashamed of it.
As skin is my PASSION I really wanted to test and try everything to see what helps and what does not. Like I said, nobody should be ashamed of their “tiger-stripes” or baby tummies. However, if you want to treat it, it’s definitely possible!
My skin changed almost from the day I was pregnant. During my first pregnancy my body was extremely dry, and I had to moisturize almost three times a day!! During my second pregnancy I got breakouts on my face, which I NEVER GET! This is just to name a few changes.
With the little life inside your tummy, he/she is your very first priority. I almost want to say take your body changes in your stride and just enjoy the pregnancy. But there are a few safe steps we can follow while pregnant to make sure our skin stays healthy.
When I held my baby in my arms for the very first time, my skin was the furthest thing on my mind. However, when everything came back to reality and I realized that the baby bump is now just a bump, it struck me. Will my skin ever look the way it did before I fell pregnant?? Well, you know what… the skin is the largest organ in the human body. Its capabilities are absolutely amazing!! For it to stretch to the point where you think it’s going to burst and then stretch even further, after birth it stretches back gradually over the next couple of months, is just incredible to witness. Again, EVERYBODY IS DIFFERENT! Some people might feel their skin never “stretched back”, or that it’s very loose still even a couple of years post birth. While other feel they bounced back straight after birth.
Sometimes you can take all the precautions you want, but you will still end up with sunburn, or in this case … stretch marks/loose skin/excess weight etc. So now your next option is to TREAT the concerns:
At Dermology we have world class equipment to treat scarred skin and get brilliant results. I always think of stretch marks as a stretchy balloon. When you stretch it, the balloon color goes lighter, when you stretch it back, it goes back to its original color or even darker. The treatment choices will depend on the type of stretch marks, what they look like and how severe they are. So the options will include or a combination of the below:
After both my pregnancies I experienced a lot of loose skin on my tummy. I have treated this successfully after my first pregnancy, and I am now busy treating my skin again. The best combination here is:
This is one of the most common post-births concerns we deal with often here at Dermology. We can pick up extra weight in different parts of our bodies during pregnancy, not just the tummy or the bum. Other areas that woman also carry extra weight in often are Thighs, Arms and of course the Face. So, you have tried the normal avenues like eating healthy, joining a gym, drinking lots of water, and this ensured for some or even dramatic weight loss. But now you still have weight that does not want to move. This is where we will step in:
We see this type of pigmentation on a daily basis. Melasma is very common during pregnancy and even after pregnancy. At Dermology we have tried and tested procedures that works brilliantly for this concern. Melasma needs to be treated in a specific manner in order to get a result and also maintain that result. Some options we use to treat it:
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