[zjandosmom]

Just wondering if anyone else who has already several children noticing that they are a bit .....bigger faster this time around? This is #4 and usually I can wear my regular clothes until about 13 wks and then the next size up until around wk 20. I am 11wks tomorrow and am finding it nec to move on up to the next size. I will admit that I have "issues" with my body, so this is especially upsetting to me. I don't feel like I am eating that much more, but I do have to eat often or I get sick. I am feeling very frustrated and fearful of what I will look like at the end of this journey. I know this sounds very vain and selfish, but I can't help how I feel. Enough of my pity party. Anyone noticing this bigger faster thing?
Kathy

 

[ehsclt]

Yes, Kathy, yes, yes, yes to all of that! I am so big that several strangers have remarked on my pregnancy. In other words, at just 11 weeks, my pregnancy is that obvious. I look to myself like I looked with my first at 5 months or so. And I, too, am worried about what state I'll be in by the end.

That having been said, I am bigger, but I think that I've gained about the same as I gained in my last two pregnancies by this time. So, it's not more weight, but just more uterus, faster, I think. My guess is that we won't end up bigger than we were in the other pregnancies at the end; we're just bigger now and it will level off.

I have to say that one relief for me this time is that stage where you just feel kind of generally bigger than usual didn't really happen for me this time. I went from not pregnant, normal body to pregnant looking body. No in between, really.

And I don't think you sound vain and selfish, but maybe that's because I'm vain and selfish.

Charlotte's getting really hot; bet Atlanta's even hotter!

 

[Raisingarrows]

I've gotten big fast w/ all my pregnancies, but I remember my dr saying last time that your uterus remembers--you take a HPT and it automatically pooches!! I know that w/ the last two I felt bigger b/f I even took a HPT and I had no idea I was pg.

I too struggle w/ self image in pregnancy. Usually around 4 mons and at the end. I end up so enormous. I carry extra amniotic fluid and I carry straight out in front, so I literally look as if I stuck a beach ball up my shirt.

Relax and keep doing what you're doing!

 

[AAK]

I get big fast too. I am only 8 weeks and oh boy, this is ridiculous. I WISH it looked more pregnant rather than just big. Oh well. I am different than some of you though. I have a hard time with my body in the beginning, but love that there is a reason for the bigness at the end. I love my pg body (once it is obvious that I am pg).

Last time I was only 16 weeks along when someone commented "not much longer, huh". I could've strangled her!

Amy
8 weeks and already into stretchy clothes only. My "bigger" size officially was too tight this week.

 

[zjandosmom]

Thank you, thank you! You have made me feel much better! Thanks