The "Line"

My son is 10 month old, and now mine is finally fading littel bit. I still don't think I can ware bikini this summer, I thought it was almost permanent line. Good luck. K.

My son is 4 1/2 months and I still have the line. It has faded but is not gone. I read some where that sometimes it never completely goes away. I really hope that's not true.

Hello -
I, too, had that line with my first pregnancy. It took awhile to go away - I want to say 2 or 3 months. However, it is long gone now! I did not have the line with my second pregnancy. I had a friend who had it with just one of her 4 pregnancies as well.

S.-
I seem to recall that my line finally started to fade about about 2-3 months. I am also assuming that everyone is different. No need to worry it will go away eventually when your system gets back to "normal"
T.

Just like stretch marks, it will fade with time. Hormones are stored in our fat cells, you will have that "surge" of progesterone for about a year. Progesterone is what helps us get pregnant and stay pregnant, that is why there are so many "stair step children", your odds of getting pregnant in again in that first year is higher than most other times.
You will regain your body back (some), but don't worry about, just let it go, it will fade with time.

It was months for me. I still had a faint line when my 1st child turned 1 and I then found out I was pregnant with #2. The line then darkened even more quickly in that pregnancy. Each time it took several months to disappear and it was the longest after my first child as I never really got rid of it since I went right into another pregnancy. I did get pregnant with my 3rd child when my 2nd was 9 months old and the line was not very noticable then, nor was it too noticable during my 3rd pregnancy. However I know that it was a minimum of 3 months before it disappeared after my 3rd child. I seem to think it was longer, but I can't recall exactly.

B. :)

I believe mine went away somewhere between 4 and 6 months postpartum.

My line took awhile to go away the first time (6 months or so). But the second time it went away almost immediately. So I think it probable differs with each person and each pregnancy.

My son is 6 months and I still have mine.

Ha ha ha ha! I wondered the same thing. It goes away after you shed all those skin cells around that area. I have a 6 month old (almost 7 months) and mine is still barely visable. It will go away, I promise, but it does take a long time. The skin under those skin cells on top will grow with the natural color of your skin and when it does and the top layer of skin sheds off the line will be gone! Hope this helps!
--S.

Oh Stephanie! I know you want that to go away, but I don't think mine went away for at least 4 months!

I still have mine and the "baby" is 3!!!

Hi S., my daughter had thatr line. It took longer than 6 weeks but eventually it did go away. Yours will too. You just have to be patient. (0:

RELAX!!! you will get back to normal. everyone is different. Enjoy your baby and don't worry about a silly line. everyone get's it.

The more children I had, the longer the line lasted after I had them! With my 4th child, I still had a vague line for almost a year! It takes several months for your horomones to return to the level they were before you were pregnant, you may have a period, but you are no where near normal yet! It took 9 months to get that way, it wont be normal for a while! Good Luck and Don't Worry!!

I thought it would take a short time too. I don't remember exactly when it went away but I know it was at least three months. (after awhile I thought it was never going to go away) it just takes time!

Sweety, your hormones wont be back to "normal" for MONTHS! Just hang in there... my line didnt go away for about 3 months after I had Meadow... and as for the hormones... just ask Eric, he will let you know how long those hormones still effect you after you have the baby... he would say that I am STILL hormonal!! I am just now (lately) feel somewhere close to "normal" and it has almost been a year! ~but maybe it is just me... I dont think I will ever be the "same"...

My line took almost a year to go away. I do not know why, I even used thick lotions thinking it would help. It will go away. Enjoy that pretty red head!!!!!

S.,

Congratulations on the little blessing! I guess that I was blessed with both of my pregnancies. Simply because I have never gotten the line. I have seen it on several mothers though. However, I can not advise you of when it might go away. I do know that it took almost 2 months before my period went away. After the birth of both of my girls Mother Nature was here for 3 days for each month she was not here.

Don't worry........it will go away. My line took over two months to go away. I was back to my normal weight in 10 days after the swelling went down but the line and hair on my tummy took longer to disappear. I still can't wear my rings though. My daughter is 11 months old but my fingers decided to stay a little bigger. I have to wear my rings on different fingers or not at all now. Luckily my husband bought me a new 10 year wedding ring while I was pregnant so it fits great.

Relax and enjoy your bundle of blessings and joy.

mine went away in like3 weeks BUT i got lines on my legs
my son is 1 yr n 2 weeks old and i STILL have those lines
its weird my butt was like the main source(it turned dark brown)n then the lines just went down

It will take some time too fade. If you're nursing it will take even longer--my daughter is 11 months old today and I still have an extremely faint line down my belly...no one would notice it but me at this point (we always called it the Pooh line b/c it made me feel like Winnie the Pooh). Anyway, even if you're not nursing it will take your hormones longer than 6 weeks to get back to normal, and then the pigment has to fade--don't worry, everything I've heard is that it will go away.

I think its different for everyone, but my son is almost a year old and you can still see my line. It ws unchanged until my son was about 9 months old, and then it started to fade a lot. At this point I'm not sure it will ever go away, especially since we're planning for number two this year too!

Hi... I too had the line with all of my children and my first one went away pretty quickly, my second and third however took almost 3-6 months... What will end up happening and it sounds gross but when you wash your belly it will wash off like dirt... Slowly mine went away, but it does take time... It just needs time for your skin to regenerate I guess... Well congrats on your new little bundle... I hope I helped a little lol...

I know every women is different, but I never got that pregnancy line. I just did some reasearch I found the following:

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.

This line of pigmentation will fade within a few weeks of delivery, although you may need to give it a gentle rub to remove any dry skin. You will notice that other areas with pigmentation - such as your nipples, moles and freckles - may darken too but this will also fade with time.

G.

I don't know if they always go away. My grandmother's line never went away. On the other hand, mine is long gone, but took way more than six weeks.

I have been wondering the same thing! My daughter is 9 weeks old and I still have it. It might be fading a little, I don't know....let me know what you find out!

my daughter is 14 months and mine still has not gone away. i talked to my doctor about it and he told me not to worry about it. he said that sometimes it can take a while to dissapear.

i don't remember when mine went away, but it was longer than 6 weeks, and i'm still nursing 11 months later, but it's gone. don't worry, there's nothing wrong!