Hi girls,
I was reading what you were all saying about your tans and make up. Well, I love fake tan too and always have my toenails painted etc. but I've been worried about doing an all over tan lately. It's just that when I went into hospital a year or two ago for a small op. they said I shouldn't have the tan on or the nail polish and gave me acetone to try and get the stuff off. They said they had to be able (or the anaesthetist, I imagine, had) to detect changes in my skin tone. I was just wondering how they - the medical staff - would manage if I had to go into hospital in an emergency...this has put me off doing my tan in the later stages of pregnancy.
I'm booked for a home birth and I'm not due for a while yet (though I do consider myself to be "full term" at 37 weeks, so only have over 3 weeks to go - yikes!!!), but I just worry that having tan on might put me at unnecessary risk if something happened and I needed e.g. an emergency section.
Gemma - you had to go into hospital recently - did they say anything about your tan/make-up then? Am I being silly?