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Anyone Else Have This?

kelshar — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 13:17:10 GMT

I have this line that runs from my belly button down. It's a shade or 2 darker than my skin tone. It's a linea nigra & only pregnant women have it for the most part. I'm not pregnant and never have been. I've had this my whole life cause I remember being a little girl with it. So for me, it's like a birth mark.

Nobody has said anything about it.......not my doctors, not my parents except a friend of mine when I was 9. She asked what the line was & I said I didn't know.

Does anyone else have this? Just curious.

Re: Anyone Else Have This?

Plaid Pants2 — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 01:42:21 GMT

Cesarean lines usually run east-west ( side-to-side), instead of up and down.

Re: Anyone Else Have This?

noodleann — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 03:05:18 GMT

@kelshar, you might find this of interest in terms of explaining why you have a linea nigra.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15926645