Anyone know if there are any contraindications with laser hair removal (bikini area) and pregnancy?

[mamalimey]

was looking to see if anyone had done this im 2 treatment into a 6 treatment package and am now 8 weeks pregnant.....my next appt is jan 4th and not sure if its allowed with the pregnancy gods?!?!?!

[mumma cop kaz]

I was about to start this when I fell pregnant, so i didn't do through with it, I have stuck to my monthly brazillians instead but I plan to do the treatments after bub is out.

Im not sure if it is safe or not while pregnant, the company you went to will be able to advise you of this, if its not safe maybe they will let you do the 7 other treatments after bub comes?

[~Adorkable~]

most all places will not do this if you are preggo and will usually have had you sign something that says your not. i was doing a quick 3 time stint of them when i got my BFP and did finish them after looking into the science behind the machine. i was convinced that it just does not go that deep, it is a wavelength that is designed to have most of its energy at the level that the follicle starts, so it going deeper would make it work less. seeing as my babies were way deeper i felt pretty good.  

i did not tell them i was preggo, i had signed a thing that said i was not for them to cover their legal buts.

now here is the other side of things, you are going to have a lot of hair changes in pregnancy and it might be to your advantage to get it all taken off after wards, i did not have the option cause it was a special deal and i was moving across country from where i had already prepaid.

the i=other issue is that you are going to start having a lot more blood flow down there and it may start hurting a lot more, i could tell each of my 3 got a bit worse and recovery got a bit more to deal with just cause everything got a lot more blood and it actually darkens the skin around there, that also makes the laser react to the skin more and feel more.  so after those three i had i just went back to waxing that i have been doing for a very long time and thanks to the few leaser treatments i did do the growth is already very very slowed down, as soon as i can after i get up and running after birth i will go back to the laser, I'm very fond of its results.

[Kyamo]

Most places will not do it if you are pregnant, and make you sign that you aren't.  I did the same research as Adorkable so I am ok with doing it in my TWW when I don't know if I am pregnant, but I plan to stop if I ever do actually get pregnant.  I lied and said that I wasn't TTC.