Are stretch marks genetic?

Mermaid Momma 🧜🏻‍♀️ • Mama of three 💙💞💙

I’m almost 16 weeks and getting stretch marks on my tummy already! 😓 I’ve been using Burt’s Bees Mama Belly butter but still see these transparent/blueish stretch mark lines keep popping up on my stomach.

My mom got bad stretch marks while pregnant and I’m thinking maybe it’s just genetic and this cream isn’t going to make a difference 🤷‍♀️ I’ve been using it since I was 12 weeks so about a month and now starting to see the stretch mark lines coming in and it’s still early I can’t imagine how much worse it’s going to get !

Thoughts/tips? Is it possible to prevent stretch marks honestly?

If not then it is what it is, and my baby will be well worth the stretch marks, but if I can try to prevent the marks from being worse than they would be that’d be nice too.