Need to hear other moms who have dealt with this and their happily ever after ending. 😂😫

All my life I’ve never had bad acne and NEVER had a single pimple aside from on the face. I didn’t appreciate and understand how lucky I was as a teen.

I got pregnant with my first, skin was fine during- in fact I had that glow. Had a long, traumatic birth ending with unplanned c-section. The first few months afterwards were a blur of pain, crying, breastfeeding complications, sleep deprivation, etc. So I don’t notice until one day about 6 months after that I had a painful pimple on my boob. I picked at it, as I’ve always done in my life with the pimples I’d gotten on my face thinking it will pop, and then fade and disappear like normal. It didn’t. It got bled, for even more red for weeks and now has left a dark, brownish spot. Then I noticed another one or two popping up on my back. But I didn’t have time to think or even worry about it because I got pregnant with my second quickly after (9.5 months after giving birth).

Well after the second, the acne has gotten worse. I now have marks/bumps all over my chest and back.

At first after giving birth the second time, I thought it would go away. Why I thought that is silly given it didn’t go away after the first.

It’s been two years since I’ve given birth to my second, and almost 4 years since I started getting these.

Life has been crazy, busy and exhausting with two crazy, adorable, little people of mine. So I’ve never even had a doctor look at them yet/prescribe anything.

I just got pregnant with baby #3 (yay!) and just need to hear what others have done to combat this- what worked for them, what didn’t. I do plan on breastfeeding with this one as well. I plan to bring this topic up in my appt with the OB/GYN - but the appt is 6 weeks away.

My self esteem level has gone WAY down. I’m self conscious now when having sex with the husband because all I can think about it is that he sees all the brown and red marks over my chest and back. This summer for the first time in my life, I don’t want to get into a swim suit due to this.

So yea, tell me if you’ve experienced this and the happy ending because feeling low about this.