Some days you glow and some days…
Oh to feel as cute and peppy as those little marching band snap, crackle, pop boys. Today I am battling the inevitable snags and pulls on my sweater from my ever-evolving midsection which seems to draw the lusty attention of every exposed nail, splintered door jam and open drawer.
Equally unattractive and unavoidable the relentlessly itchy skin on my belly and the magnificent cracking on my hands. It is as if this lil lass gestating inside of me has taken one of those fancy striped straws and is sucking down every last drop of Amanda. So dry. So itchy, so (gag) scaly. And the pop, oh lord the POP!
“Mama, it’s getting bigger and bigger and bigger. We’re gonna need to wiggle, wiggle, wiggle the baby out, so she can be safe.”
Yes, indeed, let’s wiggle that baby out so she is shielded from the danger of my belly’s staggering growth.
Excuse me while I go weep at another sappy email that was forwarded to me, while I sit tapping my foot to the rhythm of my scratching.
Lotion. You need lotion. (And put memories of Silence of the Lambs out of your head.)
A bathtub filled with oil. And we need a belly pic.
This time is year is terrible for dry skin isn't it? And I remember that itchy belly skin. Oh, how it itches. I may have avoided stretch marks, but I'm pretty sure I left some scratch marks along my midsection somewhere…
Three words for you…Palmer's Cocoa Butter. I had excessively dry skin before I got pregnant with my kids, so you can imagine what going through pregnancy in a NY winter was like for me. Cocoa butter woman. I'd swear by it's liberal use! And get the hubby involved in it's application. The rubdown will do you some good. Hang in there. And try to enjoy it. She'll be out before you know it, and you'll wonder what happened to that squirmy warm feeling inside.
I have the dry skin and some of my pre-baby clothes that I now can fit back into do weird things around my midsection and I'm not even pregnant! In all seriousness, I do remember that major itchy skin. I ended up getting a humidifier.
Oh baby
Sympathy scratching right here with ya momma.
oh man. you need some super duper skin creme. i loved medela cream for stretch marks when i was pregnant. ok, so it didn't help with the stretch marks but my skin was super soft!
Running on empty
Try this: http://www.meltproducts.com/category-s/83.htm
This stuff is hand made in CO but you can have it shipped to you. Trust me on this… I had two very very big twin babies and did not get a single stretch mark. I slathered this on my tummy every day and even the nurses were amazed at 13 lbs of baby and no stretch marks!! š
Love the image of the baby wiggling out… sweet girl š
oh how I don't miss the pregnant thing… I had Alex in April… so same timeline as you…. winter … Minnesota … pregnant.
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Wishing you the greasiest but non staining moisturizer you can find.