Belly Button Bars
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Topic: Belly Button Bars
Posted By: Shezamumof3
Subject: Belly Button Bars
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 8:50am
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When did you end up taking yours out? ------------- |
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Posted By: MissAngel
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 8:53am
| Oh dont take it out! you can get a retainer for it so that it doesnt close! I think they sell them on trademe still. |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 8:53am
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I didn't i kept it in the whole time, right thru pregnancy, delivery and afterwards - you can go to the piercing places and get flexible plain plastic ones, which is what i did. This i did for both pregnancies.
From what i can tell and have heard, all the ones who took theirs out end up with terrible icky stretch marks from where the hole is. I didn't have that, sure the skin on it got very stretched and kinda thin but it's gonna do that anyway, better to have the bely bar to support it that just let it stretch and leave marks i say. I loved having a kewl belly bar in, and ive had mine for 7 yrs so didn't want to take it out! ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: MissAngel
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 8:55am
| If you use bio oil etc and use it around the hole it wont stretch :) the retainers arent the prettiest, but they work! Man I sold a lot of those when I had my shop. |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 8:57am
The look like this.. and stetch nicely as you can see - this pic was taken at 37wks just before i had Ayja. (much better than having your belly button pop out all sticky outy. lol)
 ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 8:58am
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Yeah my friend said I should take it out as It will scar, and I said I dont want to take it out, Ive had it since I was 16! Im 25 now.
I have been from the first weeks of pregnancy applying body butter to my belly and belly button, so that should help? I always rub the cream around my piercing. ------------- |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 9:01am
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yep should help heaps, nah don't take it out..
whoa didn't think my pics were that big. sorry for anyone i scared with my big belly. lol ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: Jennz
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 9:02am
Yeah don't take it out- I did with mine and it looks  ------------- Jen, Charlotte 7 & Kate 3 
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Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 9:08am
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Ok cool I wont take it out, yay. I had a feelign it would be worse to take it out.
Great pix mum2paris! Other thing is that I hyave a really deep belly button and its only just starting to pop out now, and you can hardly call it popping out, I can see the middle of my belly button clearly now thats all. ------------- |
Posted By: Rachel75
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 9:34am
| I still have mine in & I'm at 36 weeks. This is the third pregnancy that my piercing has endured lol. The only time I had a problem was when I had a ring instead of a bar. |
Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 9:49am
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Yeah I was thinking a ring would be worse, at least with the bar it has room for stretching, and you can get longer bars too. ------------- |
Posted By: Millie1976
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 1:49pm
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I took mine out with first pregnancy at around 24 weeks and at the time I thought the hole would close but I was able to put it back in again pretty much a couple of weeks after the birth so that was great - have still got it in this time around but might take it out once my belly button pops out. ------------- Sebastien 2 years old Olivier 3 3/4 years old |
Posted By: tashzmum
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 3:19pm
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i kept mine in with tash, and at 29wk5d preggers with twins its still in there, i just put a flexible one in. looks a bit funny and stretched, but no-one looks at my belly anyway. i got mine peirced for me and i like having a pretty bar in. ------------- Natasha Jayde, 1-01-05(7lb3oz) Caroline Elisabeth, 9-04-08 (4lb15oz) Izabella Kate, 9-04-08(6lb7oz) Lexi Brenna, 23-01--2011(6lb6oz) |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 4:51pm
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I love having it peirced still cos after having the girls my belly button does go in pretty deep so it's nice to have it there to make my belly pretty(er) ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 5:30pm
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Yeah I have a pretty gold one that mum and dad got me, so i dont wanna take it out, but will put a flexible one in when I get bigger. ------------- |
Posted By: yummymummy
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 5:48pm
Those look soooo cool. Wish I had one.  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: bub
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 9:26pm
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i had mine pieced when i was pregnant with brianna but took it out at about 25 weeks coz i got a very big stretch mark just above it i havent had one in since and the hole still hasn't closed up. ------------- mother to Brianna, Amelia & Mathew. http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 09 February 2008 at 11:52am
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Depends if your belly button pops out - mine never did but I still took mine out and had it out for about 6-7 months (was about 4months when I took it out on m/w advice). Put it back in just the other day, had to pop the bottom but the hole was still there. And I've only had mine for about 7 years so yours might be OK.
My tongue piercing didn't even close up and I had that out for a month (had to take it out as they thought I was going to faint and could've swallowed my tongue  ) and it was fine when I put it back in. That's only 5 years old and I'm pretty sure they say that they close up within a few days. Not mine!
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Posted By: first
Date Posted: 09 February 2008 at 2:51pm
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I'm very glad to hear that a numbre of you have kept your in. *rubs belly button* I really didn't want to have to part with it so I will just see how things go. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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