You can tell if a women's had a baby by her stomach

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My friends wisdom you can tell a women's had a baby as they have a rounded tummy after. She declared this when I said I was pregnant last time and that she couldn't tell the difference as I always had a rounded tummy ( I'm a tall size 12 normally) Do you thinks it true ? And why are we all walking around looking 5 months pregnant permanently?

I've had some ab separation after two large babies personally.

Mine is flat...it was definitely not flat before I got pregnant.

You couldn't tell I've had three children if you looked at me with clothes on, but the evidence is definitely there with the stretch marks and belly button and my boobs are like tea bags now so that's a better give away haha.

Your friend is a bitch.

Absolute nonsense! I'm 51 and have abs of steel even after two VERY large babies! It didn't happen by accident though (daily yoga) even though my son jokes that I'm 'genetically athletic'!

You can definitely tell I have had babies from my stomach- even when I am thinner than I was pre babies there is no mistaking the stretch marks and looser skin. You can't tell my best friend has had babies, her belly is flat and firm and she has no stretch marks or loose skin at all. I gained over 40lb in my first pregnancy and I'm not sure there is much coming back from the effects of that!

I have no strech marks....no loose skin, belly button remained as was not much weight gain the biggest giveaway is the big scar from a section that went wrong-and the child that is swinging of me!!

I assume u mean via c-section? In which case yes, I have a very rounded belly, but that might be due to the cake rather than the method of birth I had Also your friend is rather rude.

I got a dark line but it was a line of hair down my bump on my first. I have fair hair I was shocked thankfully it went, I had a line of dark hair under my nose too. Pregnancy does strange things to your body.

Right at the end I got this weird rash around my mouth. I looked like Homer Simpson. Yay.

Does your friend have children?

I gained weight during pregnancy and after giving birth to my twins. I had been overweight in the past, about a decade or so prior to getting pregnant but had lost that all by the time I got pregnant. Comparing my 'fat' body now to my 'fat' body then - I have looser skin around my belly and jeeze I think I stole someone else's boobs in my sleep and glued them on to mine. BUT, I feel confident that if I lose weight my body will look the same as it did after I lost weight the first time. My boobs will probably be very different . But not my tummy.

But then I would say it's obvious I have had kids because I'm always tired and I seem to think everyone wants to hear about my toddlers' speech developments . It's obvious DP has had kids because he's going grey 😂. People without kids don't get grey hair, right? 🤔

3 kids no stretch marks and a totally flat tummy.

@Firstimemam you look great!! Love the bikini too

“A baby in her stomach” sounds like she eats babies! I can see why you’d want to steer clear of someone who had done this, so hopefully you can tell who they are...

Most women have a slightly rounded appearance to their lower abdomen as this is where the uterus sits. Those without maybe have a retroverted uterus so it’s more tucked in

@Middersweekly I said a few posts back that I have a naturally flat stomach - I also have a retroverted uterus, so maybe that is a factor indeed ! I had some really heavy periods pre menopause and afterwards, when I was being scanned for some gynae problems, I was told that my large fibroids had shrunk nicely. Didn 't know I had had them and didn't really suspect at the time as other women I had known with fibroids had all had obvious swellings.

Load of crap. I had my first child at 28, 30 now and my stomach is flatter now than before I had her. I'm actually smaller everywhere. Only thing that really changed are my boobs. Saggy as fuck.

sounds like she eats babies

In my opinion, by rights, any signs that a woman's carried babies should be viewed as a badge of honour and confer MORE respect, not less.

F'd up society, I tell you

I have had 2 children, the only evidence on my body that I have carried said children is my c-section scar that sits low enough on my belly that the only person who will ever see it is my partner. I have no stretch marks and a flat stomach. It is absolute rubbish that you can always tell if a woman has had a baby by looking at her stomach.

I don't understand the need to comment on anybody's body unless you are directly asked. You will never be everybody's idea of perfect and we all have hang ups that we are self-conscious off. It isn't kind and it isn't helpful to point these things out; even less so when its pointing out something that you are often powerless to change.

Just to add - I actually would have LIKED some evidence that people could see that I've carried my children, I have actually been told that I'm not as much as a mum because I didn't sacrifice my body and therefore haven't experienced motherhood properly!!!! It doesn't matter what you do/what your body does someone will ALWAYS have an issue with it.

Think she was having a pop tbh, I have never looked at a women and been able to say wether she has had kids or not just by the shape. Isn't anything I have thought about before but first inkling would be stretch marks or pouch that not all women get or even get from pregnancy.

I have the faintest/unnoticeable stretch marks on my stomach but everywhere else is riddled from calf to boob. Currently pudgy but not baby related

Thanks to this thread I noticed in the mirror that my pube to belly button line is still there, very faintly. I knew it was there during pregnancy but thought it had gone altogether.

Female bodies are incredible, we must always remember this.

That's bullshit

My stomach was never the same. I would definitely admire any woman who managed to accomplish that feat. I have stretchmarks and a C section scar and oh it just never returned to what it was. But I don't regret it.

@Durgasarrow

There’s a huge element of luck. I was back to totally normal as of about 6-8 weeks pp, you’d have had no idea I’d been pregnant. I didn’t do anything to achieve it, it just happened. No stretch marks, no sag, nothing.

I don’t think it’s admirable, I have much more admiration for women whose bodies don’t go back to normal but they don’t let society get them down about it. Xx

Woman who had baby looks like woman who had baby shocker

No. Not true!

It's rubbish, some of the women I know with the flattest of stomachs have had at least 3 children each and others without children have rounded ones!

Anyway who cares! Why are we focusing on what women look like so much?