Hey ladies, I'm currently 38 weeks and my belly button has started to go red around my piercing and I'm a bit worried as I don't know if this is normal or if I should remove my piercing, I'm due to be enduced on 22nd , could someone please give me advice and opinions
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Id remove it as it probably won’t close up now you’re so close to having baby! Mine was like this and it went sooo sore, I left it in despite it going red and the retainer bar in my bottom piercing eventually tore away from the skin as it stretched that much there was no piercing left 😂 I took my top one out after that and just put it back in once I had my son x

I took my piercing out at 20 weeks as I wasn’t bothered if it closed up or not, however mine looks the same as yours. I think it’s just where the skin is stretching a little more, as this bit of skin feels tighter than anywhere else on my bump - I’m just making sure I moisturise it each morning and evening x

Mine got soo bad I took it out (but at like twenty weeks-I was a huge beastly thing of a preggo!!) I can’t get it back in now though. Seeing a professional body mods person soon (when I get childcare lol…) to book in and get it sorted somehow.
Possibly not helpful, but mine was sore so I took it out. It wasn’t a priority for me over the discomfort I felt.

Yes take it out.. Ekk. I took mine out at 20 week and never put it back in. My son is 18 months and I can still get it back in.

Get some moisturizer on that asap, coconut oil or Vaseline

Keep it in and put lots and lots of cream or vaseline on it, try air it too

Mine did this, it got a bit sore too. It’s now a stretch mark x

Mine went like this even though I took the bar out quite early. Xx

I removed Mine around 17 weeks and it went back in fine x

I removed mine at about 30 weeks. My baby is 2 weeks old now and it’s back in

You can remove it, it won’t close. It was too painful for my to wear my jewelry and I took it out a month or so before giving birth. I would just pass my ring through it ever so often to check it. I’ve only worn it a couple times postpartum and it’s still open; 3 months.

Mine got like this around the same time in pregnancy although I never had a maternity bar as I never needed one! I ended up taking it out for the last couple of weeks and I put it back in a few days after she was born!