Everybody warns me about the toll pregnancy will take on my skin. I don't really worry about this. My skin has always been horribly dry and full of stretch marks. So please don't worry about my skin! Ever since elementary school, I've always had stretch marks. Everywhere. Because I grew too fast and my skin was not elastic nor flexible enough to accommodate my new dimensions. During the summer holidays I became the tallest, biggest and "breastyest" girl in my class. So other than my stretch marks, I also got a bad case of shyness. Which caused my back to curve a little, making me first of all smaller (I felt smaller, so it must have worked) and it helped hide my two new signs of womanhood.
Luckily, my mother saved me then from a life of low self-esteem. This resulted also in my back going from curved to straight. The only things that stuck ever since that summer are my stretch marks. They are part of who I am. So I am not afraid that the pregnancy will ruin my beautiful skin. I have my morning and evening routine when I cover my body in coconut oil, sweet almond oil or extra-virgin olive oil. My skin being extra-dry, the oil goes in fast and I am ready to get dressed in a few minutes.
There is this thing about being pregnant in winter. My friends who were pregnant during summer said it is better in winter. That's because I won't sweat embarrassingly. But I have to worry about catching a cold or stumbling and falling on ice or snow.
So no matter the time of the year, there are always good parts and bad parts. Just as everything in life.
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