What are the dangers in getting a piercing or tattoo during your pregnancy?

just wait until you had your kid

I am pregnant and I have a LOT of tattoos, I also apprenticed for almost 9 months to become a tattoo artist, but have a hard time hurting people.

So this is why you should not get body art during pregnancy:

1. You are growing a human, your body needs all of it’s strength to do that, healing a tat or piercing takes away from that strength.
2. Your body, when you are pregnant speeds up the healing process, it will often reject a piercing and force the ink out, instead of healing around it. I can vouch for that, because I got pregnant while in the process of healing a large tattoo, the places that still had a scab, do not have ink anymore, while the rest is fine.
3. If you get an infection either from the shop, or at home while healing, there is a big risk of that infection harming your baby’s development.

Hope that helps.

the ink does not enter your bloodstream. but any contaminant on a piercing will.

a respectable shop, would not, should not do any kind of work on you while you are pregnant.

That really helps me out. Thanks

well I don’t know but I know most places won’t give you a tattoo if youre pregnant

tattoos are definatel a bad idea if youre pregnant, but piercings are ok as long its not your naval because your stomach is stretching and the barbell will migrate at a MUCH faster rate.