https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:37:35 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2040726 Mon, 26 Jan 2015 14:14:11 +0000 LindsayInNY 2040726@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Eek, scary!! I took mine out over the weekend and DH said my belly button looked weird so I put it back in, LOL. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2040696 Mon, 26 Jan 2015 14:00:23 +0000 LuLu Mom 2040696@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I took mine out after 11 years the day I got my first BFP, I still have a prominent hole 3 years later. I can't fit a ring through it anymore (most closed on the inside but still both openings are open, but it's there and i don't see it going away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2040655 Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:41:05 +0000 Madison43 2040655@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@rachiecakes: same! My only stretch mark is the underside of the piercing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2040646 Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:37:30 +0000 tiramisu 2040646@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@thismustbetheplace: I wish I never got mine too! ugh. Mine was out for 12 years before I got pregs and I only had it in for a year or so. It never fully closed either and my skin got so stretched while pregnant the hole kind of ripped open and was a very painful cut. :sad: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2039923 Sun, 25 Jan 2015 22:42:03 +0000 ChiCalGoBee 2039923@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LindsayInNY: Like @Mrs. Jump Rope: said, the navel one never closed for me.....and when I saw a plastic surgeon in my mid-twenties to see if I could get it closed, he said to wait until after I had a baby to see what it did. I just had a baby-it's just as noticeable as before. Ugh, I wish I could talk to my 18-year-old self and talk her out of this piercing! Mine was only in for about a year, too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2039849 Sun, 25 Jan 2015 21:18:47 +0000 blackbird 2039849@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I took it out at the end of my first trimester because I didn't want it catching on anything. It has partially closed but isn't wide enough to put a piercing back in. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2039837 Sun, 25 Jan 2015 21:13:05 +0000 MarieJ 2039837@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I took mine out around 20 weeks with my first pregnancy &amp; my top hole closed even though I had it pierced for 6 years. I was so sad when I found out it closed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2039829 Sun, 25 Jan 2015 21:02:41 +0000 Kelley_lovelikecrazy 2039829@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I took mine out at 26 weeks. I would randomly put it back in just to see if it closed through the rest of the pregnancy. After I had my daughter, the hole was so large that I didn't think a normal bar would work - like the ball would slide through? So I just said bye to the belly button ring, even though it hadn't closed. Well, once my stomach shrunk, the skin tightened, and I had my normal body back (about 4 months) - the hole became normal size too - it was just stretched like the rest of my skin. By then, it had grown in enough that I couldn't put it back. I wish I had just continued it put it in randomly and then could decide whether I wanted to wear it or not. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038745 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 11:24:14 +0000 thismustbetheplace 2038745@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I took out my bb piercing at age 28 after 10 years of having it in (2.5 years before LO was born). I'm sure I'm the worst case scenario but daaaamn I wish I'd never done it in the first place. The hole never closed and it got really stretched during my pregnancy so it's sort of... floppy? And just like my belly button, the inside skin turned dark brown as my tummy shrank back to normal size so now it's this gross dark brown saggy hole. I am seriously more self conscious of that stupid hole than the rest of my post-baby body. I don't think keeping the piercing in would have helped, and my belly skin was so tight by the end that I imagine it would have hurt quite a bit. Hopefully no one has it as bad as me though :bummed: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038743 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 11:23:52 +0000 rachiecakes 2038743@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LindsayInNY: I took mine out because it got uncomfortable pretty early with belly bands and maternity pants.<br /> The underside of the piercing turned into a stretch mark! I think because it's scar tissue (like every piercing is) it didn't have any elasticity. It doesn't look weird now but the underside droops a bit, lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038738 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 11:19:14 +0000 Astro Bee 2038738@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've had a belly piercing for 15 yrs, and took it out at around 23 weeks. I definitely could have kept it in longer, as I haven't popped yet at 30w. DH was rubbing my belly last night and commented on my funny little hole. I assume that I would be able to get a ring through it still, although I haven't checked. I'd planned on getting one of those clear, flexible bars for pregnancy, but in the end, it didn't seem worth the effort. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038721 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:57:43 +0000 brownie 2038721@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm on pregnancy number 2 with a belly button piercing. My belly button never popped with number one and hasn't for number two (29 weeks now). For number one I got a pregnancy plastic piercing which was nice and I took it out the day we went into the hospital and put it back when we got home. This time I have a regular ring with one ball missing (it's been missing since before I was knocked up). So far no issues. Some weird stretch marks but that's my whole belly and the ring has always been for me and not shared. I will take it out before birth probably. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038696 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:25:07 +0000 yellowbird 2038696@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I took mine out during my first pregnancy because it started stretching and it sort of hurt. I never put it back in </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038691 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:17:48 +0000 MapleMoose 2038691@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I removed mine at 17 weeks in my first pregnancy. I never put it back in since I got pregnant again pretty soon after. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038681 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:10:17 +0000 babycanuck 2038681@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have no obvious advice, but I took my belly button ring out 2 years before we started ttc (when I went off BCP) and 5 years later that damn hole is still there. I can't get a ring through it anymore but it looks hilarious. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038676 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:04:42 +0000 marionberry 2038676@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I took mine out mid-pregnancy with J. It returned to looking the same when I lost the baby weight but I couldn't get a piercing through it still. I thought I'd miss it more but it seems like a normal move from youth to adulthood not to have it. My piercing hole looks really funny right now since I'm so big because of the twins. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038675 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:04:00 +0000 turquoisemama 2038675@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I took mine out pretty early because my mom told me about her friends daughter who left hers in and had to have it surgically removed because it got too tight. I was not interested in having that done! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038653 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:44:31 +0000 LindsayInNY 2038653@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jump Rope: I think they were my 20th birthday present to myself and I'm just over 31 now? Guess I should plan on them staying open lol!</p> <p>@MrsKMM: I just feel like it looks weird if you can see it through my clothes? It just hangs at the bottom part weirdly! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038650 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:40:21 +0000 MrsKMM 2038650@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LindsayInNY: I took mine out over a month ago, but it makes me feel naked, so I found a flexible clear pregnancy one on Amazon for $5 that I'm using in the meantime. The hole started looking flat as I grow and that freaked me out a little lol not sure I'll be keeping this one in the whole time though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038647 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:36:46 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 2038647@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LindsayInNY: uh me too. Three years later and still open! Maybe it's because I had them done at 19 and took them out at 27? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038639 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:30:11 +0000 LindsayInNY 2038639@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jump Rope: Those were the ones I was told close up fairly quickly. So bizarre! As long as there aren't issues, such is life! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038632 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:26:35 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 2038632@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LindsayInNY: nope, none at all! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038619 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:19:54 +0000 Anya 2038619@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's weird to not have it when you've been used to it for so long, it feels so naked BUT once your bump really pops it will be a whole new belly anyway and will seem less strange (well more strange probably but in a different way!) :grin: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038616 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:18:07 +0000 hilsy85 2038616@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had mine out before getting pregnant, but it never closed and just kind of stretched. It looked weirdest Post partum when the skin was very loose around there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038613 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:16:05 +0000 LindsayInNY 2038613@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anya: Yeah the clear thing isn't important to me. I can always repierce it later if I truly miss it. It's just such a big step to remove it for some reason lol! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038608 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:11:13 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 2038608@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LindsayInNY: I think we do have the same ones! I've had mine out for 3 years and they're still open. </p> <p>I don't have any regrets, but... I kind of wish I had been warned about this part. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038607 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:10:33 +0000 Anya 2038607@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't have mine in for most of the pregnancy so it wouldn't get in the way of the Doppler, exams etc but I could still awkwardly put it in up to 28 weeks (it was not cute though lol!) My belly button hasn't popped, but the holes from the piercing look like they're getting a little crooked as my belly button flattens out. Some people use those long clear tubes to maintain the piercing but it wasn't important enough to me so I'll just see what happens after the pregnancy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038604 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:08:39 +0000 LindsayInNY 2038604@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jump Rope: I think we've had some of the same piercings ;) I've removed them all but the belly button. Two I was told would close fairly quickly but I don't think they have yet. The other two I was told are almost like ear piercings in that they will stay open. It's been interesting lol! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038598 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:03:04 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 2038598@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LindsayInNY: I eventually took mine out because my belly button popped and if was a hot mess. </p> <p>Word of caution: my navel piercing never closed, and I thought it would. None of my piercings closed, and there were two that I definitely thought would close quickly. No one tells you this when you're 19! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/belly-button-piercing-when-pregnant#post-2038597 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:01:41 +0000 LindsayInNY 2038597@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've had my belly button pierced for 13+ years now. I'm 18 weeks pregnant and still have it in. </p> <p>If your belly button was still pierced when you got pregnant, when did you take it out? Mine doesn't seem to be growing out at all yet but it's definitely hanging looser as my stomach grows out during the day. </p>