Can I be showing already? - 7weeks.

[wellsie]

This is my 2nd pregnancy and already this one feels different. My worry is that I think I'm showing already and I'm only 7weeks. Don't hate me but after DS I got back to my normal weight and before becoming pregnant again I was less than what I was before.
With DS I didn't show until 4months but with this one my work suits are already getting tight.

Has this happened with anyone else? Am I just imagining things? Is there a medical reason for it? Please advise as DH is laughing at me!!!!

oooh yes - I'm in 2nd pg and all my clothes got tight almost immediately (put it down to age and the fact that everything's more baggy IYSWIM - like my body's elastic has gone!)
Everything else has happened much sooner too like feeling movement and boobs expanding. I thought I was showing loads but nobody else did until I was about 18 weeks (was gutted) Enjoy it! your body is more sensitive to the changes 2nd time around and you can feel much more thananyone else can know. Have a fab pregnancy wellsie!

medical reason = stomach muscles knackered! ok maybe thats a bit extreme but lots of people show earlier with 2nd, 3rd etc. a mum at ds1s old school showed earlier than you but she was on baby no.9!

and im sorry, but im afraid you are just being downright silly asking me not to hate you.....i still have 3.5 stone to lose

Yup, I got ultra vast ultra fast second time round. Still got two stone to lose as well. And a tummy like a ruched blind. Ah well, my children are spectacularly beautiful and if I have them with me, nobody notices my belly! (at least, that's my theory).

Its just one of those things im afraid, i didnt show till i was 6 months gone with my first and i was back in my own clothes 2 weeks after the birth. This time i started showing at 6 weeks.

I started showing early. My 2nd preganancy too.At about 12 weeks, I was so big my belly button became an outie. That didn't happen till about 7 months last time.

Nearly everyone shows earlier second time round. I was (to myself and DH) showing by that point with DD. But I lost the weight just as easily (ie not very). But she is nearly 18 months and I am in an easily fitting size 10 although weigh 1/2 stone more than when I got pg. But losing that 1/2 stone would require willpower which seems to be in short supply.

I put on 10lbs in the first 10 weeks this time round (3rd pg). But I have actually lost 5lbs of it - I think a lot may have been water retention.

no you can't be showing yet - you've just eaten too many cookies
only joking!

I showed earlier 2nd time around too..... but at 7 weeks I think you have to put it down to bloating!!! The uterus hasn't even moved up out of the pelvis yet so you can't actually have a baby bump until after 12 weeks-ish. Before that its just hormonal bloating. Ya big bloater you!
(you asked for that with the postnatal weight comment. )

Your all going to mega hate me then, I was a stone lighter this time than last. I wouldn't say I showed any earlier in fact I didn't look pregnant until about a month ago (I'm 30 weeks now) but I looked fat around my waist. I only started wearing the dreaded maternity jeans at 27 weeks this time compared to about 20 last time. But as toothy said I felt bloated and generally fat in my tummy for months.

I think running after a toddler has meant I've eaten less than last time as last time I sat at my desk eating and mumsnetting all day!

This is my 3rd pregnancy and I too had a bump that appeared at around 7 weeks. I could still fit into my jeans easily but had a high bump. I had to put up with a lot of comments about how I looked as though I was expecting twins but thankfully the dating scan showed that there is just one baby in there.

I have a high bump too. Can fit easily into old jeans at nearly 15 weeks but have very definite bump.

Mine was out of my pelvis before 12 weeks according to the midwives.