Saggy Belly :(

[rooks14]

I think it's where my skin has overstretched, but the bottom part of my bump is really saggy and flabby :( the top is very hard, obviously where his head is at the mo, but i'm getting very worried about the state of my stomach after i give birth! (especially seeing a poor girl the same age as me on embarassing bodies the other night with the same post-baby-sagginess)

p.s. don't answer back with some a smart answer such as you should be more worried about the health etc. I'm having a bad day and want so consoling that i'm not the only one that's upset about my changing body!

[BooBooGlass]

Honestly? I have the same and it's never gone away. Even when I got down to a size 8, it was much reduced but still aprony. I think tbh it's just loose skin and there's very little, bar surgery to chop it all off, that can be done. Depressing but true.

[whomovedmychocolate]

Skin is skin and if there is too much it's generally not something you can do anything about. Is it a second pregnancy?

For most people (and I say most because everyone is different) your body does change after pregnancy, but not always for the worst. For me, I had a little bit of a saggy tummy for about six months after each pregnancy - I had two caesarians so lost a bit of stomach muscle there and had to regain it. But once I did, it all went back to how it was. :)

[supadupapupascupa]

ditto BooBooGlass

it's your mummy's war paint and most of us have it.

[captainbarnacle]

They never tell you about this. It's all 'baby weight here and baby weight there'. I always thought I'd be - like all those people in the public eye - able to lose weight and be like I was.

I was wrong. After DC1 I had this hanging bag which had been under my bump for the final 2 months. I'd had an EMCS and just thought it was because of that. After DC2 I was still left with it - and now pg with DC3. It won't go away. It's taken me 5 years to accept this fact. I can lost weight and it will reduce a little, but it won't go away :(

[Gill79]

hmmm. You may be lucky but you may not. A dermatologist told me some skin stretches well and some doesn't. If it's more muscle and tone than skin you can do a bit more about it but... Losing weight does make a small difference although will make the wrinkles worse.
Sorry
It's best to know now, and I remember being really upset when everyone told me it would go back, and I just couldn't see how. It was a real shock.
But... it;s really not the end of the world xx

[sarahmia]

if it makes you feel better my friends mum just had a tummy tuck at 47 to take her baby tummy away :)

[Joannezipan]

I have this too, I thought it was just where my pre-pg flab went! It is a bit grim, but hopefully I'll just be able to hid it in my clothes and nobody need ever know (except DH and it is 50% his fault too).

[rooks14]

:( I guess I already knew this! It's baby no1! Because i'm only 20 I just assumed im spring back into shape straight away, but I have literally hundreds of stretchmarks already!
I'm already fed up of seeing all uni friends flat bellies in bikinis on holiday and i'm 31 weeks and feeling like a whale!

Sure it will all be worth it when he's here, but am having a serious down day seeing my horrible belly in the mirror! Wish I had a lovely neat bump! :(

[posterofagirl]

I was starting to feel a bit bad for hating the bottom saggy bit of my bump, I feel much better now I have seen I'm not alone.