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Hi girls,
I am very impatient for my belly button to go from an 'innie' to an 'outie' :rofl: (Although this also means I will be less able to hide the belly at work for much longer!).
I know that everyone is different but I'm just wondering when others found their stomachs became smooth all over? Does it depend on whether you were carrying a bit of extra weight before the pregnancy or on how you are carrying the pregnancy? At 19 weeks, am I nearly there yet???????
Thanks in advance!
Before I was pg I had a deep innie, I think I was about 20-22weeks when my belly button evened out to the same as the rest of my belly (if that makes sense), I kept thinking any day now it is going to pop... it never did :( I had bets on with my partner from the start as to wether or not my belly button would pop, neither of us won as it just stretched and kind of dissappeared!
I hope you get the *pop* you are waiting for!
Deanne.
Mine didn't pop at all :)
I have a deep innie too, and mine never popped.
Mine didn't pop but by 25 weeks it had been pushed out and was flat with my stomach :)
mine didnt pop out! i was freaking out it was going to as the poor thing was so stretched and sore but it didnt and that suited me just fine!
Mine was still an innie at the end of my pg! But I have a fair bit of extra flesh, LOL.
Mine's been popping out a little bit for a couple of weeks now, but it was never very deep to start with so I was expecting it to come out. I don't want a really protruding one, but I guess there's not much I can do about it. I just hope it goes back in afterwards...
KAz- I want mine to pop too!!! Mine was pretty deep and is starting to even out now. I was also crrying a little bit of extra weigth around my tummy before falling pregnant- No washboard abs for me, the last time I saw my abs I was 21!
Mine is a deep innie also and the last 2-3 weeks it's been getting more shallow (if that makes sense!) and now is so small i can't stick my finger in my belly button anymore like i used to be able to :rofl:
Hasn't popped yet but I sure hope it does!!
Can I swap with you girls then? ;) Mine was an outie as a child, and I hated it and was very embarrassed by it. As I got older it finally turned into an innie, but quite shallow. So now it's sticking out again I'm really not that happy about it.
I think i was about 30 weeks last time when it popped out.
I wrote before my 'belly button would pop, neither of us won as it just stretched and kind of dissappeared!', just wanted to let you know that it did go back in again, in fact it went in alot deeper than it was before at first as my stomach was flat before I was pg and after I gave birth I had a bit of excess flab and therefore a bigger innie - I could fit my finger in to my first knuckle :rofl:
Deanne.
Mine has just popped at 32 weeks pregnant with twins.
Mine didnt pop either, more like Matildasmummy, mine stretched and became flat...
From about 20 weeks i had this flat bit on my belly so i wasnt completly round - looked funny this belly with a flat spot!
Hey I was just talking about this in my belly buddies thread!
I had never noticed it until 2 days ago when I looked at my belly button and it has started to flatten/even out with my tummy! It is so weird looking and feels really soft as well. Prior to pregnancy it was pretty deep and my tum has always been flat and firm so this growing bump is really making it tight and I think the stretching and tightening of my belly is giving my belly button no choice but to flatten out. I have a belly bar in there too, so not sure if I should just leave it or maybe get one of those flexi ones designed for pregnancy...
Mine never popped. Mine is an innie. It got shallower. I gave birth at 38w4d.
Hey Kaz
Was wondering the same thing! My sister's never quite popped with my niece, but a friend of mine's popped about two weeks ago (and she is 30 weeks now).
Mine is stretching and going all weird looking but not poking out yet!
Mine just went flat, it has come back and is slowly getting back to normal, will be interested to see how tight it gets after (I had a pretty firm flat tummy before getting pregnant) Just got a little bit to get rid of now!
My belly is so tight and smooth, has been since I began to show at about 12 weeks. But I noticed just last week that my normally innie belly button is popping out, but only on one side at the moment. Feels funny. I seriously look like I have just swollowed a huge watermelon, other than my bump I haven't put weight on anywhere else, so that just looks weirder if you ask me, I think a little extra weight looks lovely!
My belly button hasalways been a reasonably deep innie. At 25 weeks it has flattened out a lot, one side more so than the other. I assumed from this that it would eventually pop, but my sis (same size and shape as me) says hers stayed like this for her whole pregnancy, so I'm hoping mine won't get much worse.
For both mine my belly button didn't flatten at all. Innie all the way! xo
In the past few weeks my belly button has become much more shallow. I've also noticed that I can make my belly button into an outie if I pull the skin around my belly button tight! It looks so funny! Have no idea if it will 'pop' out - I hope so! :D
Oooh thanks for all your replies girls! They've been very enlightening - I am so clueless it didn't even occur to me that it wouldn't pop out!! :cryinglaugh:
I would be happy with a flattened out/stretched version but from some of your experiences I might be waiting a while yet. I feel self conscious wearing tighter mat tops because you can see the 'crater' and it is not a good look :redface: It is starting to become less deep though so I will keep my fingers crossed.
Devon - I'll happily swap buttons with you now darl! It's always the way that you get what you don't want. I really hope your belly button returns to normal afterwards.
Puppies - I'm quite sure I've got an extra few kilos I could donate to you too :rofl: I am certain you look gorgeous! I think it looks better when its all belly myself.
Holly, My belly button did the same as yours just flattened out, I have my belly peirced to and I got one of those plastic pregnancy bars and personally I think it was hopeless, I kept a sleeper in for ages and took it out at about 25 weeks as it was getting in the way more than anything (Just slid a ring through every now and then, just to check the hole was open). When I gave birth I put a ring back in no problems and you now would never know I took it out.:
My belly button was very deep and it never popped. Who is to say it wouldn't have in the last 6 weeks, if I did not have a premie. I don't think it would have ever popped. though.
I just looked through my belly photos.. and the one i took at 22 weeks had a popped out belly button.. So for me, I guess around 21-22 weeks.
Mine never popped either, just got a bit stretched and shallower. I was glad - it didn't stick out of my summer tops when I was heavily pg!