This is my third pregnancy so I expected to show a bit faster than I did last time, but I have been outgrowing my clothes since about week 5. Currently, my belly looks about the same size as it did when I was 18-20 weeks with my previous two. Normal?
My mom saw me this weekend and has me a bit freaked out about there being more than one in there. She said that is how she looked with me and I was a twin. She lost my twin at around 16 weeks, though. I have also been about 100 times more sick this time around, more tired, etc. I know a lot of this is 'normal', but when is it not normal? I go for my first midwife appointment in a few weeks and I'm assuming she'll do a physical exam and can tell if it is actually my uterus that is big or just some extra tummy 'stuff'.
I'm not quite "showing," but at only 7 weeks 3 days I'm feeling a little big for my britches already, and that's freaking me out. My (newly washed, admittedly) jeans were pretty uncomfortable today and I was all too happy to put on my yoga pants instead. I'm going to try to hold off on maternity pants until at least the 2nd tri.
This is my second baby (or babies? still haven't seen the midwife yet) and both my husband and i have twins in our families so it's not out of the question...
I'm telling myself I'm just eating lots more and it's making an appearance ahead of the actual baby.
That's what scares me...I'm very, very obviously showing. Very prominent pooch. Everyone I see now knows and comments because it is so obvious. I'm not terribly thin, nor very large (about a size 8 normally) and I haven't gained any weight yet. All my shirts are already too short, too. I'm sure twins would be wonderful in many ways, I'm just a bit freaked out because I have a very close friend that had twins and I have heard all of the difficult parts about it, too. It is what it is, though.
I am showing for sure. I can no longer even button my pants, at all, even before I eat. My dh has said twins since the beginning, some of my kids wish twins. I'd be happy either way
, but I bet I am just going to look huge, like all the other times, except when I actually carried twins, my first pregnancy.
I just went to about.com and looked at people's belly pics. I'm feeling much better now! A lot of women on there were as big as I am. I guess it still could be, but I think I could just be big this time, too.
I am 7.5 weeks and haven't told many people, but am starting to feel obvious. I was in maternity pants by 10 weeks with my 2nd and 3rd. I too am not skinny....about a size 8.
I was convinced I must be carrying twins because I already have such an obvious belly. I was in maternity pants by week 6 and now that I am 10 weeks strangers can tell I am pregnant (if I am wearing close fitting shirt). But, I had my fist scan on Friday and there was only one in there! I guess this pregnancy I am just showing way earlier than my last! Hopefully I wont be way bigger by the end
I already switched to my maternity pants and I'm 7 weeks and 5 days! My regular jeans were really hurting my stomach and were actually making me kind of crampy...I would unbutton them every time I sat down. I figured it was time to switch! I'm actually on my 5th pregnancy (I had 2 losses between my two kids and was pregnant 3 times in 2007) so I think my muscles are just shot down there. If you didn't know me you wouldn't think I had a little pooch, but my neighbors and my family will definitely notice now that my tight jeans aren't sucking it all in!
Jeans are out, I don't think my belly is growing any yet, I do think my hips are moving around a bit though so I just switched to stretchy pants. Haven't bought any maternity pants yet.
9w 4d - pants are bothering the hell out of me, especially at the end of the day, but I am going to try to wait until next week to go into full stretchy clothes mode.
I give up on regular pants. I don't like being uncomfortable. I was wearing size 6 before pregnancy and have graduated to size 2 maternity pants. No doubt I'll go up a couple sizes as things progress but I have lots of pants in many sizes to get me through.
I give up on caring (much) that I look tummy pudgy rather than pregnant. I'm pregnant! What am I gonna do but roll with it? There are worse things than having a little baby belly anyway. I do hope no one asks how far along I am, though. I just don't want to answer that question yet.
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