Am I the only one?

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I’m 30 weeks pregnant and caught a glimpse of my downs stairs last night and it’s so dark down there at the moment I have pretty fair skin and normaly it’s just skin coloured and pink where it’s meant to me and not anymore the whole area is dark as well as my underarms! This is my second pregnancy and the first pregnancy was never like this is this going to go away after pregnancy or is this my new normal?

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I cant see and I'm too scared to take a mirror to it.

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My underarms are super dark too, not my private area , but my areolas look almost black! And I’m of a light medium skin tone... it’s suppose to go away sometime after delivery.

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That happened with my second, I don’t remember it happening with my first, and it went away within a month or two of having the baby. My tummy also turned brown...the whole thing!! It went away too.

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It's a normal reaction to certain hormones. Does not matter the sex of the baby (I have 1 of each so far) each pregnancy is different so no guarantee if it will happen again or not either. But it does fade back to "normal" color a couple months after birth. It typically happens where there is course hair and in places more susceptible to sweat or chafe. Plus extra blood flow and pressure in certain arteries. Unless you start actually bruising or having pain in those areas it's typically normal with normal body swelling at this stage.

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It's so funny because I was actually mentioning this to my husband the other day...with my first pregnancy our daughter, my vagina and underarms got soooo dark it was shocking and with this pregnancy I'm 8 weeks from my due date and no skin discoloration! I know hormones play a roll but idk if sex of baby has any part in it. Having a boy this time around 💙

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I read the pigments should go away after birth, but 🤷🏽 I can barely see unless I'm in a mirror. I have to just touch and feel to shave😂

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Following!  Same here because My first pregnancy I was not as dark and I happened to look the other day and it’s so dark like everything like why lol I hope things don’t stay that way.

Am I the only one?

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