After a woman becomes pregnant, her body will experience a series of symptom changes, with the most common being changes in the breasts, including breast enlargement, swelling, pain, and even changes in nipple and areola color. However, the specific changes are still unclear to many women. Therefore, I would like to know at what week of pregnancy when the areola color turns black?
After pregnancy, women's hormone secretion promotes the activity of melanocytes in the skin. Therefore, many women experience darkening of skin pigmentation during pregnancy, mainly in the nipple, areola, external genitalia, armpits, and abdominal line. Generally, most women will gradually darken and darken the color of the nipple and areola due to the increase of pigment deposition in the third or fourth month of pregnancy, but the specific time varies from person to person.
The changes in women's breasts usually occur around 6 weeks of pregnancy. Women's breasts are affected by hormonal changes in the body, especially the combination of estrogen and progesterone, which causes varying degrees of proliferation of adipose tissue, breast tissue, and mammary ducts in the breasts, resulting in symptoms of breast enlargement and softening. Due to obvious congestion in the breasts, there may be symptoms of swelling and pain.
The breasts will continue to grow as the gestational age progresses. However, in the middle of pregnancy, the growth rate of the breasts will be slower. But in the late stages of pregnancy, the breasts will start to grow again. Due to the continuous enlargement of the breasts, they will also become ugly. There will be obvious veins under the breast skin, and the nipples will become sensitive and easily firm when stimulated. There will also be some circular granular nodules around the nipples and areola.
