I'm a qualified body piercer and also 19 wks with second child you should remove the piercing bar straight away as it will never have a chance to heal with you ever expanding skin. Have it redone when your body is back to normal. If you risk infection then you risk all sorts of complications not just for you but also for the baby,if it makes you ill then your baby will also be ill
Id take it out :/ you can always get it redone after you baby arrrives :)
Mine started rejecting when i got pregnant and i had it for 4 months before, i put maternity ones in and it still made no difference so i told it out and it healed just fine! Only have a little mark now. My scar isnt bad.
You can try a flexible one. The ones that aren't metal. That's what I had to do, and I'm only 7 weeks and I've had my belly pierced since I was 14. (22now) but my ring started to get really irritated and I switched it to a non metal one cleaned it a lot and now its fine.
Mine did this when I got it pierced as well, mine was rejecting but I refused to take it out because I want aware it was rejecting and now I have a horrible scar :/ if it doesn't get better I'd probably take it out, I wish I would have.
You should get the maternity one but if it really hurts bad you should take if out cause you don't want no infections ..
** belly button piercing lol