Why appears and what a strip on the stomach during pregnancy means?
Strike on the abdomen during pregnancy appears almost all women waiting for the baby. Find out why it appears and what can mean
Every woman knows: waiting period of the child – the time of enormous changes in the body of the future milf. Tastes change, habits, lifestyle, and most importantly – her body changes. Increases weight, the chest becomes more magnificent, the waist disappears, the hair becomes more dense and shiny, almost cease to fall out.
And during pregnancy, when else «Interesting position» Imperceptively surrounding, a vertical strip of light or dark brown appears on the stomach of the future mammia.
Today we will tell why a strip appears on the stomach during pregnancy and that it can mean, and we will also tell me some interesting folk adoption related to this phenomenon.
WHY A STROT strip appears during pregnancy?
The fact is that every person and vertebrate animals along the middle of the belly there is a practically invisible white stripe – the fibrous structure of the abdominal wall, consisting of collagen connective tissue. It shares the right and left straight muscles of the abdomen and formed due to the merger of aponeurosis (tendon plates) of the front abdominal wall.
White stripe (with lat. Linea Alba) consists of connective tissue and practically does not have nerve endings and blood vessels, so its longitudinal dissection is most often used by doctors in surgical interventions.
Linea Alba passes from a sword-shaped grudge process and to the pubis.
It is practically impossible to view this line to visually, because its color does not differ from the color of the skin of the entire abdomen.
However, if a person is gaining a large amount of excess weight and its stomach increases at times, the band becomes noticeable, and the belly itself is divided into two parts.
As everyone knows, the stomach during pregnancy is also increasing, however, the strip is also acquiring a darker color.
Why do pregnant stripes on the stomach darkens?
This phenomenon is caused by natural change in hormonal background in future moms. During the tooling of the fetus in the body of a woman intensively produces a hormone growth of somatotropin. It is present in the human body throughout his life, but only in different quantities – from 1-5 ng / ml to 45 ng / ml, depending on age and hormonal background. The maximum secretion of this hormone is observed in people under 20 years old, then during each decade it decreases by approximately 15%.
Somatotropin performs a number of important functions, namely:
- promotes the growth of tubular bones;
- stimulates the growth of muscle tissue;
- Normalizes metabolic processes, «Replies» for metabolism;
- Increases human growth before closing growth zones (about 25 years);
- accelerates the regeneration of tissues, restore them after injuries;
- regulates the synthesis of collagen;
- reduces cholesterol levels;
- prevents the decomposition of muscle tissues.
During the tooling of the child under the influence of somatotropin, the walls of the abdomen grow rapidly, and the separation band of the connective tissue becomes more noticeable.
But the dark strip on the stomach during pregnancy becomes due to another hormone – melanotropin.
This hormone stimulates the production of cells changing the color of the skin – when the amount of melanotropin in the body increases, a dark vertical band appears on the tummy, the nipples become darker, the freckles (if any) become more noticeable.
Over the course of pregnancy, Linea Alba is becoming darker and darker.
It is noteworthy that with each subsequent pregnancy, the strip appears before and is noticeable stronger. Its size, shape and color in all women are different and depend on different factors.
When the band appears?
Time when the future mammy notices on the tummy darkened Linea Alba, quite individual. Someone has such manifestations already in the first weeks, someone has – only in the third trimester.
But most of the future mothers, the pigmentation of the separation strip becomes noticeable approximately to 12-13 weeks, when the tummy begins to grow and becomes more noticeable.
Why there are no strips on the stomach during pregnancy?
Approximately ten and twelve percent of future mothers do not have a dark stripes on the tummy. It depends not only on the individual characteristics of a person, but also from the geographical location of the zone where pregnant living, as well as from the color of her skin. So, at dark-eyed, dark-haired and dark-eyed ladies Linea Alba darkens more often than in factors and light-eyed blondes.
If you have noticed that you do not have a dark strip, do not panic – this does not affect the development and growth of the fetus, as well as on the health of his mommy.
When she disappears?
As a rule, brown Linea Alba brightens and again becomes invisible approximately 4-10 months after the appearance of the baby on the light, when the mother comes to normal in the body of the mother.
The longer the feminine will feed the crumb, the longer the vertical strip will be noticeable. However, this does not mean that the baby needed before the time to deprive the precious maternal milk.
How to make a strip less noticeable?
Remove the Dark Linea Alba, alas, it will not work, however, you can make it less noticeable. First of all, it should be avoided by the skin of direct sunlight (however, nursing moms rarely take sunbathing on the beach). During solar procedures, it is necessary to use high protection sunscreen.
Sunbathing best in the shade, and about visiting a solarium for this period it is better to forget at all.
Dark strip will be less noticeable if you adjust the power of the future or young mommy. Consumption of fatty and meat dishes, black tea, coffee, cocoa, cola and t should be minimized. D.
The menu must necessarily contain products containing vitamin C and folic acid, since these substances are not only vital for normal growth and the development of the baby, but also reduce pigmentation.
Enter fresh vegetables, fruits, berries, greens, and instead of the usual tea or coffee, drink vintage rosehip. But to get involved in the use of carrots, oranges, mandarins, grapefruits are not worth it, because in these fruits there is a lot of carotene, which is certainly very useful for health, but at the same time promotes increased pigmentation.
If you go to the beach and do not want the dark line to be noticeable to others, simply disguise it with a tonal cream or powder.
Folk signs
Many of our ancestors were confident that the shape and size of the strip on the stomach in pregnant women can mean how the gender will be born.
- So, if the brown line is long, dark and ends under the ribs, this means that parents should be waiting for the boy’s heir;
- If the dark Linea Alba is thin and short or almost inconspicable, the Little Princess will appear on the light;
- According to tradition, the sex of the child can be determined by the fact that the line is smooth and thick;
- If the brown line is crying and thin, a girl will appear, if smooth and wide – then a boy.
Of course, folk signs have nothing to do with scientific theories, however, many women claim that the degree of pigmentation of the tummy accurately points to the floor of the future kid.
