2006-06-15 10:46:38 · 12 answers · asked by sad1986 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
Usually around the second trimester but if you are fair skinned you may not get it. It is caused by an increase in the pigment melanin in your skin (the primary determenent in skin color, which is where melanoma, skin cancer, comes from) the more melanin the darker your color so with less melanin there is less of a chance for you to get a linea nigra. It's ok if you don't get one. It is caused by the pregnancy hormone HCG but that doesn't mean that if you don't get one you don't have enough of the hormone or anything like that. It depends only on the melanin in your skin. Hope this helps
2006-06-15 10:55:34 · answer #1 · answered by 20mommy05 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The line that you are talking about is called the Linea Nigra, or darkening of line from navel to pubis. (Belly button to top of pubic bone)This can occur in some pregnancies, at or around the 4th or 5th month. Not everyone gets this though. It is estiomated only about 15% of women get this during pregnany. I didnt get it during my first pregnancy, but i had a faint line during my second pregnancy.
The line is more noticable in darker skinned women, and harder to notice in light skinned women. If you do get this pregnancy line, it should clear up in a few weeks after deliverary.
Some other reasons a women may get this line is a hormonal inmablance. Taking a daily vitamin should help.
2006-06-15 17:54:49 · answer #2 · answered by cute_blondie_angel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I started to get mine, though very faintly, around 2 1/2 months. It got steadily darker over time. However not everyone gets it - and it is more prominent in dark skinned women.
good luck!
2006-06-15 18:35:35 · answer #3 · answered by Queen D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm 37 weeks pregnant and havent gotten that line. I have very fair skin im not sure if that has anything to do with it
2006-06-16 13:37:38 · answer #4 · answered by Heather H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think mine appeared around 6 months or so. It went away after all of the pregnancies. It's just hormones.
2006-06-15 17:50:19 · answer #5 · answered by mama 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mmm it depends....what happens its that we all have it but during pregnancy we produce too much pigmentation hormones and almost everything darkens...your underarms, and the line darkens too...some ppl dont even get it but some ppl do i started noticing mine till i was like 5 months...it will go away
2006-06-15 18:14:50 · answer #6 · answered by Pretty_LeLii 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you talking about a C-section scar? well then after you have your belly cut open and the baby pulled out, other then that I don't know what you mean.
2006-06-15 17:49:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never got one in any of my three pregnancies. I got plenty of stretch marks, though!
2006-06-15 19:25:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I di second trimester twice
2006-06-15 18:18:24 · answer #9 · answered by Cherie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Somewhere around the 6th month or so.
2006-06-15 17:50:58 · answer #10 · answered by happywhereIam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋