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BOTB just can't help themselves
SO I'll ask you ladies. When, in the distant future, I TTC, will it be better to have had my belly button ring out for a year or two so it can completely heal up, or does it matter? If it doesn't matter I'll just leave it in til I find out I'm pg, because I love it.
Re: BOTB just can't help themselves
I took mine out waaaaaaay before I got PG. Like 3 years before. I still have a hole. So I'd say wait until you want to take it out.
I think that "it'll close up" crap is myth. I'm STILL pissed.
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They are crazy over there.
I will answer your question! I just had my belly button ring taken out last week. I wanted to keep it as long as I could. Eventually it just got kind of uncomfortable and it seems everyday like my bb is about to pop out, although it hasn't yet. I don't think you need to worry about it completely healing up before you TTC.
I took mine out for an MRI in March, and I haven't been able to get it back in. I think my belly ring days are over, sadly. I loved it b/c no one expected me to have it. I never wore crazy stuff, just the original ring. But I got it after I originally lost 25 lbs, so it was very meaningful to me that I felt good enough to get one
But yeah, that hole is annoying.
Considering this, I will just keep on enjoying it. Did you get a stretch mark where the hole was?
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I didnt have my belly button ring when I was pregnant. But a friend of mine did and she took hers out sometime during the pregnancy. This was 6 years ago and her hole still has not closed out. She decided not to put it back in.
I will go to my grave with mine!!! Nobody expects me to have one so I guess that is why I love it. I got it for my 39th birthday! The only time it has come out was for surgeries and it goes back in asap!!!
Anything you can achieve through hard work, you could also just buy.
They seem to work pretty well. Two of the women I work with used them when they were pg (which is how I know about them). They both got huge and were still wearing them. One used hers twice with great success.
The post bit is made so you can cut it shorter if you want (twisting the bead on it will create the threading). They start out pretty long, so I think they could accomodate a pretty large belly.
Sorry, I hate you
Nobody ever told me that you could get stretch marks the day OF delivery - I only got a few on my hips throughout my pregnancy, but apparently my skin stretched so much as the baby was coming out, I got a bunch on my lower belly that very day. Ugh.
ditto. I made it through 9 damn months with nothing. Then after 12 hous of labor, they come?! I was pissed.