if you showed earlier with your second.... - Page 2

[plenilunio]

i for one showed waaaay sooner this time, and the shape of my belly is very different. with DS (pg #1), i started at 125 and was 138 at 38wks when DS was born. my belly was adorable, small and sorta pointy and even at 9 months you could still see my ab muscles at the top. everyone always told me i had a very "boy-looking" belly. my boobs got ginormous with pg#1, but there wasn't much change in the areolas. this pg (#2), i also started at the exact same wight (125 lbs), but at 29 wks i'm already weighing 4 or 5 lbs more than i did when DS was born. my belly this time is not as "cutesie" as my first belly was, it's way rounder and wider and hangs a lot lower. it's a girl this time, and, at least in my latin community, i'm told i have a very "girl-looking" belly (whatever that means!).. my boobs are equally as ginormous, but my areolas have gotten very large and very, very dark, like the color of espresso, which makes DP laugh because my skin is paper-white! they really do look funny..

[Hope4six]

Since I didn't show until 5 months with my first, it was a given that I'd show sooner with my second. I showed at about 3 months with him - to other people. Of course, I could tell I'd "popped out" a bit sooner than that. but I gained less weight with him, and never got any bigger than i had the first time.
With each pregnancy I have popped out a bit earlier, but how big I end up being depends on how I carry the baby and how much weight I gain. My uterus has always measured right on for my due date. Until this pregnancy. I'm pregnant with number 6 this time, and not only did I pop out at 8 weeks, and not fit regular clothes anymore (despite being sick and not gaining any weight), but I had a second "popping out" at 14 weeks, when suddenly the whole world could tell I was pregnant, not just people who know me.
Now, at 18 weeks, I am as big as I was when I delivered my first, although I weight 5 lbs less. But it is all belly, and my uterus is measuring 4 weeks ahead right now.