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Linea negra
Filed under: Just For Moms, Your Pregnancy, Health & Safety: Babies, Medical Conditions
Pop Sugar recently polled readers about getting linea negra, the condition many pregnant women get wherein a dark , vertical line appears on their swollen baby bellies from their pubic area up to their belly buttons (and sometimes beyond).
I would take that question one step further and ask readers not only about experiencing linea negra but whether or not theirs ever went away. Some gals, it turns out, have a rather permanent reminder of their pregnancy days.
Technically speaking, the line that is linea negra is always present--it's just the same color as the rest of the surrounding skin. During the second trimester, an increase in hormones estrogen and progesterone cause the line to darken to a brownish shade which then fades, most of the time, at some point after the pregnancy.
Mine faded, but I can't say when. I just sort of noticed it wasn't there one day. I never minded having it, either. It was sort of a road map in pregnancy to me, a sign that all was progressing as normal (whatever that is!). Some gals, however, don't care for it.
Staying out of the sun and getting enough folic acid are thought to help decrease the likelihood of linea negra. There is also some discussion as to whether there may be a link between the condition and insulin.
What about you--did you get linea negra? And, did it fade or do you have a permanent keepsake (other than your darling baby) from your pregnancy?
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
5-03-2008 @ 10:03AM
Eva said...I got it; it went away. I'm pretty fair-skinned so I was surprised to get it.
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5-03-2008 @ 11:58AM
Kat said...3 pregnancies and never had it-I was kind of bummed LOL. Im very fair.... naturally light blonde hair and blue eyes so I figured it was just b/c of my coloring that I didnt get it.
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5-05-2008 @ 7:37AM
Gabrielle said...I still have mine 5.5 months after the fact. I think it's fading a little but is still quite dark. I hope it doesn't disappear completely; being a mother has been quite transforming for me and the line is a nice reflection of that.
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5-03-2008 @ 12:45PM
jessica said...I've never been pregnant, but I totally have that line, it's been there for as long as I remember. When I was younger, I worried that maybe I was pregnant and didn't know it, or who knows.
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5-03-2008 @ 1:40PM
Ethel said...Never got it with either pregnancy. Of course, there was another line that left after pregnancy - about the same time the pregnancy hair was falling out - that traveled close to my belly button. That one was embarrassing, but the only folks who would see it were my husband, the ultrasound tech, and whomever saw me at a prenatal check.
My 3 year old has had and still has a line between his belly button and pubis that is dark. It's okay since he is darker then the rest of us anyway, for whatever reason (I know the genetics so it's possible but the probability was low). When he was first born I thought the linea negra would go away with the "witches milk" that he had, but it has not. I guess he's still pregnant.....
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5-03-2008 @ 2:59PM
megan said...i'm due tomorrow and mine showed up in stages. i saw it in the mirror one day from navel on down, sometime around 20 or 25 weeks. in the last 4-6 weeks, it's started to darken from navel on up. i was surprised and excited when i saw it the first time. i called my mom to tell her, and she said she had it too, and so did my grandmother. my grandmother figured that was how the baby got out...that they would just 'unzip' her along that line and out he would come. apparently she thought that until about the time she birthed her first son. rude awakening.
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5-03-2008 @ 6:09PM
momx3 said...i am on pregnancy number 3 with just 8 weeks to go and i have never had that line.. i do however have the stretch marks as my little reminder.. lol
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5-04-2008 @ 1:16PM
Pavlina said...I got it. It faded after #1 and after #2 it stayed, but very faint.
I didn't spend time in the sun, I took plenty of Folic acid, and I never had high insulin levels. Huh.
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5-05-2008 @ 11:39AM
kim said...gone now after 2 babies. i loved it. even included it in a poem
http://www.literarymama.com/poetry/archives/001389.html
many women don't like it. oh well.
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5-05-2008 @ 4:12PM
pantrygirl said...I'm 8 months pregnant and have it. I actually don't think about it too much. Time will tell if it stays or goes.
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