Getting your navel pierced while pregnant can result in infection, disease, and harm to the baby. The navel region is not very muscular, and therefore has very little active blood flow. This means that, even if you were not pregnant, the navel piercing would take a long time to heal.
Moreover, can piercings affect pregnancy?
When you are pregnant, your immune system is weaker, which makes you more susceptible to infections. Even though the risk is small, some professional piercing parlors may not pierce a pregnant woman. Getting a piercing can be risky at any time but it can become even more of a risk when you are pregnant.
While there is no medical reason to remove a completely healed navel piercing during pregnancy, according to the American Pregnancy Association, a piercing is stretched both up and down, as well as side to side, says Beverly Hills board-certified plastic surgeon Sheila Nazarian.
