I was a little confused by a couple things they said in the article. First, they named them "surgical plastic retainers " which I'd never search for in a million years, and then they went on to say that they were "thinner" and longer, and that is incorrect. Although they are longer than steel bars, and we do have thinner 16g styles available on the site, 99% of what we sell are standard 14g bars, and we feel this is vital because if you wear a 14g (the standard gauge) and you switch to a 16g (a thinner gauge) during pregnacy, your piercing could close up a little, and then you'll have to use a taper to try to stretch back to a 14g back in again (OUCH) or be stuck with 16g forever, which are REALLY hard to find in cute styles. So make sure and get the gauge that you wear now!
Interesting that they would change the name, our pregnancy belly rings first started out as tongue rings, when they first came out with the flexible materials like bioplast and PTFE. These are products we added to our regular body jewelry offerings on Ebay, and our regular body jewelry site, but the weren't wildly popular at first. I think really it's because nobody knew to search for them. They were functional, but not very fun styles. The length was good, 16mm, which is 5/8". That's probably enough length for most people. But it's nice to have the longer length just in case. So that is what we sold for "pregnancy belly rings", until someone approached us to make longer length ones. Then we got serious, and creative. And then we finally started marketing on a separate site. And THEN we got a lot of competition. Wow....so many sites are offering these now, it's incredible. I still think we have the best selection and prices, and guarantees in the business though! :)
