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| |    How Pregnancy Can Effect Your Belly Button by Marjorie Greenfield, M.D. reviewed by Laura Jana, M.D., F.A.A.P. What happens to your navel in pregnancy? As your abdomen expands, your navel, the scar from where your umbilical cord was attached to your mother, gets stretched. Even if you have a deep belly button (or "innie") when not pregnant, you may find that first your navel flattens and eventually it may protrude from your abdomen. This doesn't bother some women, while others find it annoying to have a bump on an already large abdomen. A band-aid across the area can make it less noticeable through your clothing. A woman I know told me that she felt like the turkey she got for Thanksgiving, and that when her belly button popped out she figured the baby was done. Unfortunately, the two events are not related. As with many symptoms of pregnancy, the changes in your navel usually resolve after the baby is born.
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