Bye bye navel piercing??

I had a ring, and was worried about getting it caught and it ripping out (have heard stories *shudder*) so took it out at about 20wks. Felt a bit stripped without it at first but I think the hole itself is fine and hasn't closed yet :)

Thanks for asking FJ, I've got it out at the moment. It kept looking red and getting caught on things. Looks fine now and I poke it through every now and then to check it's not closing up but going ok so far :crossfingers:

Just wanted to add my experiance from last night ...

After talking my bellystud out about 5 years back ... I could manage a slim hoop through last night :o :o Long story short .. since my navel started to pop out, I've noticed that it sorta looked like there was a little black head INSIDE the piercing, so I tried getting it out by just squeezing, but later resorted to trying to push through one of my hoops ... low and behold it goes through, gunk comes out ... EWWWWW :sick: exactly like a little black head :dunno:

I have to add that the piercing seems shallower than what I can remember, the skin seems sooooooo tender and frail .. could also be because of the bump underneath ;)

PS. I do shower ... every night, sometimes twice a day ... and I do clean out my navel, just so ya all don't think I'm some smelly roadside critter :p

I know a few people who've used fishing line. I took mine out a couple of years before I got pregnant so didn't get to try myself (after about 10 years with no problems it got badly infected after I had laparoscopy and I ended up letting it go :cry:). But fishing line is supposed to work really well.

I had to take mine out when I had surgery to remove my ectopic pregnancy...and then by the time things had healed enough to put it back in, the hole had closed too much. I really miss it ..my tummy looks funny to me without it