Better Belly Butter Blog
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Welcome! Welcome! Best Stretch Mark Formula
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We are just getting started, and to tell you the truth, I am nervous, but oh so excited to share Better Belly Butter with you! I am about to have my second baby in late January or early February, and I do not have a single stretch mark more than I did when I got my first stretch marks in high school. I expected to get more; my mom had loads and loads of them. Unlike my mother, who proudly wore her "tiger stripes" as a badge of honor, I was not so enthused by the idea. Stretch marks are supposedly hereditary, but as I have learned as a naturopathic doctor, if you can motivate your genes with positive messages, they will mostly reward you!
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CoVID brought a Bundle of Joy and a Second Wind!
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The Corona Virus has been a thorn in my side. I am sure it has effected you too! While I may have lost my job and my uncle, I can say that my family unit has grown closer, and even stronger. As time passed and finally it dawned on me... why am I not doing more to share my story with the world. I had a formula that worked for me during my first pregnancy to prevent stretch marks. Why did it work? Better Belly butter began as a very simplistic recipe in the kitchen of our home. -
Every month, nearly 50,000 people Google the question, "How to get rid of stretch marks?"
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The Latin name we doctors refer to stretch marks is striae gravidarum. Striae for linear patterns, slight ridges, or grooves on the surface in part to a more extensive collection with similar parallel features. Gravidarum - just means a woman with child aka pregnant.
Stretch marks don’t just occur to females during pregnancy.
When the skin’s resilience is compromised, cutaneous changes in the skin, which happen anywhere there tends to be considerable amounts of stored fat.
