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"oohhh my bump is sssooo massive" "everyone is saying how huge i'am"
do me a favor FGS!!!!! who cares!!!

lol!!

my bump is hiding.

My bump is massive, shame it's fat not baby

Mine is distinctly average

I wish I could compete lol

uurrgh i hate it! it drives me mad! it's a bump does it really matter what size it is or who is bigger? >>can you tell i have been on the receiving end of this today<<<

its ok. i'm 30 weeks, barely got a bump and not waddling

I was seriously the size of a small country when pregnant with DS and was totally sick of people saying "any day now" from six months onwards... (but then he was 10lb 10.5oz in the end and I was half a stone lighter than before I got pregnant by the time I came home from hospital , so it was ALL baby!)

I hated being so big and was very very of those with small neat bumps....I definitely wasn't boasting about the size of mine...
<why would you anyway?>

Mine is MASSIVE (and DD is a year old so that's great).

Weird! I'm 33 weeks and walking with a stoop to try to hide my actually not all that large bump (it was massive with DD1 and although excited/proud at first I was hideously conscious of it near the end).

I'm getting a lot of people saying, 'you're 33 weeks?! Ooh, aren't you doing well, nice and small? etc' Yes, potential growth problems are marvelous.

YANBU

cheeky i know what you mean, i had problems in my second pregnancy that meant i was very small, and i had to go for scans to check the baby was growing ok

and i couldn't believe the amount of people that complimented me on having such a tiny bump

Well, I'm sick to bloody death of being told how big my bump is! I'm 38 weeks & have had a noticeable bump since my 12 week scan. So far I've had "wow you're huuuge!", "are you sure there's only 1 in there?" and haven't you had it yet? I thought you were further on than that!" among other gems...
I am fully aware that my stomach is the size of a small planet thank you very much (looks alot bigger because I'm also short), I'm the one who has to carry it around all day!!
YANBU btw

But other people comment on it all the time! It makes you very aware of how big/small you are. Also, you can't conclude that nobody else cares when, as I say, everybody you meet has an opinion...

Noone comments on my bump, I have an eeevil face

My bump is all cake and chips...
not pregnant

TastesLikePanda Are you me?

Ooh maybe!
<excited>
Have you just lost your phone and then found it under your massive arse on the sofa?

Yes yes yes!! I met a friend of a friend when I was about 26 weeks, who was as far along as me, and after "hello", the first thing she said was, "Ooh, I think my bump is a bit bigger than yours even though I am due a few days after you" in a smug tone. What an odd thing to say?!
I generally don't mind comments about pregnancy from people who have no kids because I understand that for the most part they are just being nice and feigning interest, but people who compare are just odd.

And a big bump means what exactly!
My bump wasn't bump like. Infact I just looked a bit fatter.
I'm tall and a 'stocky' build
I was pleased. No stretchmarks, I wasn't uncomfortable and if it had been big I'd have been the size of a house.
DD was 7.5 lb so not small.
Who cares though! Big, small, it means nothing.
YANBU

My bump was big but not massive and DS was 9lb, current bump is a bit smaller - a friend of mine looked like she had swallowed a very small watermelon and had a baby nearly 10 lb - so yes, means nothing! Just yet another thing to rave on about...

I have huge bumps. Ive come to the decision I must have a short torso as my bumps stick right out giving the impression Im carrying triplets. When actually its just up to 9lb 5oz which is pretty average now.

But I had a few negative comments on how big my bump was, and also got the "What?! You have three MONTHS left?!"

For me it's not so much competitive size, but competitive position - facebook pictures of bums sticking out at the top of bums etc - when you're 36 weeks with a stubbornly breech DC it's a teeny weeny bit ! Never thought something so silly could make me feel like that!

Yeah, they seem to have some weird idea that big bump = big baby (which they seem to think is better than a small or average baby. Why??)

My bump needed it's own postcode with ds2 - this small child stopped his mum in sainsburys and told her he'd just seen a snowman - I was wearing a white top at the time.

Both were smallish - 6lb 11, and 7 lb 8 respectively - I just mutate when pregnant....

Well I feel I have a huge bump and know someone due 2 days before me who is nowhere near as big. I commented on this to my DH cos I feel it's unfair! Why do I have to feel so frikkin fat and heffalumpy but

I have the other issue, people keep laughing and saying its massive already and that im going to be like a barrell. Funny. nobs. Im short, theres no way but out, plus i already had a belly so its still there, just stuck in front of the bump.