The Rue of a Pregnancy Tattoo Leads to Removal

The news of your pregnancy has you feeling overly excited about, the most significant event of your life – the birth of your first baby.  With emotions running high, and over-flowing with joy your first instinct is to get a tattoo to commemorate your first experience with motherhood, as you have with other life-changing events.

Before celebrating the journey of motherhood with a new tattoo, consider for the first time the health and safety of your unborn child.

Tattoo artists do not want to knowingly tattoo anyone that is pregnant – they don’t want any liability for any risk to mother and baby. Also, they’d prefer not to have pregnant individuals fainting in their shop, or subject a pregnant woman to any stress that is popularly believed to bring on premature labor.  It’s likely that any liability form you would sign would ask if you were pregnant.

There is also little known about any effects that tattoo inks possibly have on a developing baby.  You undoubtedly will do everything you can to promote the health of your unborn baby, introducing foreign tattoo ink made of unknowing substances into your body does not fall under safe practices. 

Imagine if you did get a tattoo and then down the road an unexpected complication in your pregnancy came upon– an overwhelming feeling of guilt surely would consume you with every glance of the tattoo, and even tattoo removal would not remove the scared regret.

Hormones not only Rule the Universe on a daily basis, they control erage especially in women during pregnancy. Selecting a tattoo design under such circumstances will surely lead to raging regret once the dust from their stamped settles, yet another surrender to tattoo removal.

Wait until your baby has safely arrived until you decide if you want to commemorate this once in a lifetime event with a tattoo.  Chances are you will be much to busy living in the reality of these precious moments to worry about choosing a tattoo design to mark the event.

As a practical matter, tattoos in the abdominal area are likely to be impacted by the body’s changing weight, shape and stretch marks. This is another very practical reason to remove tattoos from your pregnancy.

If you still feel compelled to commemorate your pregnancy, there are many safe options that don’t have the permanence of tattoos.  You can share body painting with your other pregnant friends, or make a plaster cast of your expanding belly.

Many women in traditional cultures have decorated themselves with natural henna as a way of bringing good fortune to their coming babies. It is absolutely imperative, however, that you are using natural henna rather than the synthetic black henna that contains harmful materials.

If in doubt, ask someone experienced in henna decoration. The natural henna can give you beautiful designs that will gently fade away – you can document your design in photographs, and have your partner involved in the artwork. These are much better options than a permanent tattoo that tattoo removal may or may not be able to undo the scar of regret.