u/IntenseViolet567

I started applying Palmer's stretch marks creams religiously around 12 weeks, and I didn't even start to grow a bump until close to 24 weeks. I'm now 34 weeks, and guess what's all over my tummy! 🙃 I didn't even grow much. I tell people I'm 34 weeks and they LAUGH. They think I'm kidding. Most guess I'm no more than six months, so I didn't grow much, and I got stretch marks, anyway.

Either you're going to get them, or you're not. How much you use the cream doesn't seem to be a contributing factor, unfortunately. I was so hopeful!

I'm getting an apartment with my partner within the next month, and we're expecting a baby during the same time. Literally this time last year, I was up until 9AM drinking every weekend and now I'm gonna be a mom??? Wtf? It's amazing how much things can change in such a short time. It's exciting, scary, but also almost... relieving?

It can be three minutes before bedtime and I'm exhausted BUT, the second I acknowledge "It's been a long day, I should try sleeping," I've never been more awake. How much sleep I got the day before doesn't matter. How long I've been awake doesn't matter.

I have honestly given up trying to sleep. You name it, I've tried it, it doesn't work (except Ativan, that knocked me out in the ER but, nobody wants to prescribe that).

By the chance I can get to sleep on my own, I'm lucky to sleep more than 90 minutes before waking up for no reason.

My record is 18 times in seven hours.

It's been almost 15 years. I don't even know what it feels like to NOT be tired. 🥱🙄

I've always had oily hair and skin, but the issue with my hair has gotten five times as bad within the last two weeks. Absolutely nothing has changed. Same everything, but now, my hair starts getting greasy as soon as THREE HOURS after I shower. I could usually go about 24 hours before getting greasy, but now, it won't go away no matter what I do.

I've been using Paul Mitchell Tea Tree shampoo for three years, Nexus Humectress for conditioner. Switched to L'Oreal Elvive shampoo to see if that would help two days ago (it didn't). I'm really upset as I feel gross almost immediately after showering. Is there any solution to this?

EDIT: Wanted to add I wash my hair daily. I've washed my hair daily for the last 10 years. As mentioned above, I'm not new to oily hair lol