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When did you start getting a definate bump?

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SheWillBeLoved · 30/12/2008 12:15

Since finding out I was PG, i've had a bump.. not an overly visable one due to cushioning but to feel it, it was hard and definately there. I realize it was mainly early pregnancy bloating.. and today it seems to have shrunk alot. Is that due to the bloating reducing around the 12 week mark and my god awful constipation going (tmi sorry ..?

When did you all have a bump that there was no denying was there and wasn't bloating?

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Newb · 30/12/2008 12:44

Ah, I was just about to post on the same thing.... I'm 12.5 weeks and currently have tiny "lump" kind of thing above crotch that I'm pretty sure is womb / baby etc. Also have more of a bump higher up which appears to be fat or water, but is pleasingly pregnant - looking. Is a bump a bump, or does it have to be full of baby to be authentic!

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SheWillBeLoved · 30/12/2008 12:48

I have a bump even when not pregnant so it's hard working out which is which some days! Everyone seems to think that i'll just suddenly wake up one day with a huge baby bump and wonder where it came from! I want it now though! I don't feel pregnant at all right now so this bump is all I have

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Picante · 30/12/2008 12:49

I'm big already. It's worse at night so I know some of it is water retention / bloatedness, but I'm definitely showing. Started showing at 6 weeks.

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SpringySunshine · 30/12/2008 12:52

I was visibly showing at about 12 - 13 weeks, but not to the point where people wouldn't automatically assume that I'd just had a big lunch until about 20 weeks. Until then there was lots of obvious tummy rubbing going on to get the point across

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SheWillBeLoved · 30/12/2008 13:00

Picante mine is definately worse at night too, I try and convince myself it's the baby growing at night and not the gallon of Tango i've craved and drank all day .

I suppose as it's my first it'll take a while for me to properly show what with my tummy muscles not being torn to shreds yet Plus the padding! Hmph, might invest in a pregnancy suit

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Tee2072 · 30/12/2008 13:04

I've been visibly showing since about 12 weeks. I am now 15 and there is no doubt there is a baby in there!

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Claire236 · 30/12/2008 13:32

I thought I was showing from about 12 weeks but had people saying I didn't look pregnant up until I was nearly 20 weeks. Used to walk round sticking my tummy out as I desperately wanted a baby bump to show off.

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DECKmuppetWITHBOUGHSOFHOLLY · 30/12/2008 13:35

ds 1 - 18 weeks ish
ds 2 -8 weeks (had a mmc at 14 weeks 2 months before and never quite lost the 'bump')

am currently 12 weeks with no 3 and still in size 8 jeans

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bantam73 · 30/12/2008 13:56

Hi everyone

I had to start wearing mat trousers at 5wks this time [no3]. Everyone telling me at about 7-8 wks that I was pregnant so we could not hide it at all. At our dating scan we were told that I was large because my placenta is right at the back and the baby is all front.
Now we are 22wks and are big still some say we look 30+wks my sil is due in 6wks and we are more or less the same size.
I may stop growing at some point!!!!!!!

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Cherrybaby · 30/12/2008 15:17

I started showing around 24 weeks...first time pregnancy though, and I've been told not to expect the same thing next time around by countless ladies