ok here is my question do you always get that line down the middle of your stomach when you are pregnant ? i didnt with my second child nut i did with my first so i was just wandering if it was a first time mom thing or not ?
2007-11-23 18:20:57 · 18 answers · asked by mom,momma,mommy....... 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Other - Pregnancy & Parenting
Linea nigra (dark line running up your tummy)
This is a dark, vertical line, up to a centimetre wide, that appears down the middle of your stomach, often crossing the navel. It tends to appear around the second trimester and is caused by pigmentation in the skin where your abdominal muscles stretch and slightly separate to accommodate your baby as it grows.
The way you carry, size of baby and length of pregnancy can all play a part in it (and skin type) .
Some women don't get it at all (me!) and others get it with some pregnancies and not others, like you.
Hope that answers you question. Its more common in first pregnancies but not unusual anytime as each pregnancy is different!
http://www.babycentre.co.uk/pregnancy/antenatalhealth/skinchanges/#6
2007-11-23 20:20:46 · answer #1 · answered by Cindy; mum to 3 monkeys! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Linea nigra (Latin for "black line") is a dismal vertical line that looks on the tummy for the duration of being pregnant. The brownish streak is in lots of circumstances a pair of centimeter in width. the line runs vertically alongside the midline of the tummy from the pubis to the xiphoid technique — the backside-maximum area of the rib cage interior the midsection or tip of the sternum. that's a form of hyperpigmentation because of the fact of greater desirable production of the pigment melanin concept to be led to by employing greater desirable estrogen. Why this technique of hyperpigmentation occurs in a right now vertical line is unclear. honest-skinned women instruct this symptom much less in lots of circumstances than women with darker pigmentation. till now evidently it extremely is greater faintly seen as a linea alba ("white line"). Linea nigra has a tendency to seem around the 2nd trimester. a splash analyze shows there could be a hyperlink between linea nigra and insulin. Supplementing the eating ordinary with folic acid is declared to shrink the discoloration.After delivery, the line fades slowly, yet might by no potential disappear completely, and sunlight publicity might reason it to recur.
2016-09-30 01:52:36 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm on #3 and I've got one that goes all the way up my stomach. It's not a 1st time mom thing, it's a hormone thing. I'm just glad it goes away after.
And it's not a linea albae...it's called the linea negra.
2007-11-23 18:24:27 · answer #3 · answered by PK211 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is different for every person, I got a nice line and it was hairy!! in my past 2 pregnancy's, now I am pregnant with number 3... we will see what happens this time! lol...
2007-11-23 18:24:49 · answer #4 · answered by shawn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have had the line with 2 of my pregnancies.
2007-11-23 18:28:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't get it this entire pregnancy (I am 36.5 weeks along) until now. I just noticed a faint line today. so it just varies with each pregnancy, I'm sure. no big thing.
2007-11-23 18:32:48 · answer #6 · answered by ~mama2danica~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had it when i was pregnant with my son, i can't say if it will happen again cause I've only had the one child so far!
2007-11-23 21:00:37 · answer #7 · answered by bec 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope...it all depends on the hormones in your body. Every pregnancy is different.
2007-11-23 18:25:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
some women get it and others dont as we are all different.i have had 3 babies and i never got it------i think my pay back for that was stretch marks lol
2007-11-23 19:15:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
usually with first pregnancy and usually goes away called (linea albae).. same like discoloration of areola around the nipple
2007-11-23 18:25:23 · answer #10 · answered by me 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋