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AIBU?

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in considering telling a fib about how far pregnant I am??

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Disenchanted · 29/04/2008 11:50

Not to the midwives or anything like that!

Just random people in the street, aquintances ect ...

Im coming upto 7 weeks but my belly is huge, Im bigger than my lat pregnancies anyways about a size 14/16 compared to a 10 and 12 with the others but its ALL belly. Its swollen up, its rock hard... I look about 5/6 months gone.

And people ASK me daily if a am pregnant and I feel stupid saying 'yes, 6 weeks' Its quite embarresing

So would it be awful to say something less specific like 'were not sure yet about 3 months?'

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snorkle · 29/04/2008 12:27

x post with BettyS

belgo · 29/04/2008 12:28

Just say yes but not due for a while yet. i've had a few very rude comments on how big I am this time round - but when I speak to mothers of three or four children, they all say it's normal to get bigger a lot faster.

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Disenchanted · 29/04/2008 12:28

but im due december 19th-25th i think, so that wont work when they see me still pregnant in december

I guess ill just have to keep accepting the and faces!

my dad actully said to me a few weeks ago 'now come on, tell us how far you really are because your oobviously not just 5 weeks'

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hanaflower · 29/04/2008 12:29

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Disenchanted · 29/04/2008 12:30

p*ss off hana!!

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snorkle · 29/04/2008 12:30

oh well, then I can't even do the sums! I didn't mean lie about the date, just to say the month due and leave them to figure it out - or most likely not.

CarGirl · 29/04/2008 12:32

you could have actually had a period when you were already pregnant (was it particularly light or diff to normal), time for an early dating scan???

snorkle · 29/04/2008 12:32

Incidently have you had a dating scan, as it maybe your dates are wrong.

snorkle · 29/04/2008 12:33

but soemtimes you do just get huge. I had a friend who was very large with her last - much larger than she had been when expecting twins in fact, though it was a singleton.

hanaflower · 29/04/2008 12:34

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wannaBe · 29/04/2008 12:36

but not all twins are hireditory are they? just that twins down one side of the family increases the chances, but technically anyone can have twins. or triplets, or quads. .

scaryteacher · 29/04/2008 13:13

One of the supply teachers at school asked me when I was due, as she thought there might be maternity leave cover going. I pointed out that ds was 10, and due to start year 6 in the next term. She blushed and farted when she saw me after that, especially when I had to intervene in her classes as she couldn't get them to settle down!

NotABanana · 29/04/2008 13:15

Blushed and farted????

Bramshott · 29/04/2008 13:20

Can't you just be very vague and say something like "yes, due later on in the year"?

scaryteacher · 29/04/2008 13:26

She either did that or scuttled the other way when she saw me coming. Unfortunately for her, she took the NQT's classes next door to me, and when the noise level was disturbing my free period for marking, I used to go in and hoik kids out and then put them in detention after they'd spent the lesson with me. I made her do the detention though.

Fimbo · 29/04/2008 13:27

I know someone with twins - no history either side.

jingleyjen · 29/04/2008 13:32

no witty responses sorry, just wanted to say that it looks like a lovely neat bump.. bigger than I would have guessed for 6 weeks but nice shape

crabby · 29/04/2008 13:46

As far as I understand it, twins run as follows:

non-identical - these are the result of 2 eggs being released at once. ie it has to be from the mother. Men produce squillions of sperm at a time and will happily fertilise all the eggs you give them. So non-identical twins are only from the mother's side. The women in some families do have a tendancy to ovulate more than one egg at a time. Who knows why. But is can just happen out of the blue, so just because you don't have a history of it doesn't mean that you can't have twins.

identical twins come from one egg being fertilised by one sperm. This then splits. No-one knows why, it is just random and not inherited. Just v. good luck.

Clear as mud??

lollipopmother · 29/04/2008 13:58

That is some bump - it's much larger than mine and I'm nearly 22 weeks!

soremummy · 29/04/2008 14:17

I would be getting a dating scan asap....I hadn't got a bump had periods BUT was 4.5 months gone when we found out.

SparklyGothKat · 29/04/2008 14:21

i popped out very early on with callum, i was in maternity clothes at 8 weeks.

hanaflower · 29/04/2008 14:23

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piratecat · 29/04/2008 14:25

phew, that is a big bump, congratulations !! Have you def (gonna sound patronising and rude but dont mean to be) got your dates right?

I only ask becuase sometimes women have periods when they are pg, and end up much more pg than they thought!!!

maybe a dating scan would help??

kayzisexpecting · 29/04/2008 14:27

I think you should ask for a dating scan.

lollipopmother · 29/04/2008 14:29

I wouldn't suggest Disenchanted look at this as it'll scare the crap out of her, but I got sent this recently - it's a timeline of triplets.

incredimazing.com/page/Triplets_Timeline_Progression

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