BLEMISHES & PIGMENTATION
Pregnancy can cause blemishes because the hormonal changes make your sweat glands and sebaceous – or oil producing–glands work overtime. Sometimes skin becomes very dry in pregnancy and needs an extra-rich moisturiser, but often in the middle months skin and hair really do bloom. Occasionally women develop brownish markings on the face, or a brown line (linea nigra) down the middle of the abdomen from about the third month. These are due to pregnancy hormones and usually fade after the
