When did you start showing with a second pregnancy?

[Alligatorpie]

I am only six weeks and already I can feel my trousers are getting tighter. It could be because of the baby, or maybe because my diet has changed and I am now eating a lot of carbs ( normally I eat low carb).

I am a bit worried about starting to show early. We just moved to a new country for work, and I don't want to tell anyone until Xmas, when we will go back to visit my dh's family in the Uk.

but am not sure I will be able to hide it, if I am already expanding! I have also heard you show earlier with the second, any thoughts on this?

Thanks!

[Sandra2011]

I guess this depends of how much flab you have left from the first pregnancy.

I'm now 22 weeks and feel so much bigger than last time. If I compare weight there is only +2 kilos difference but belly is much bigger.

(I've taken belly profile photos starting week 12 in both pregnancies)

[BeyondLimitsOfTheLivingDead]

I showed at what I thought was about 6 weeks, but then I was moved forward a week and a half at my dating scan, so would have been more like 7-8 weeks.
Am 16+4 now and look about 7m!!

But I was pregnant again less than a year after having DS so I dont know if that makes a difference? If my muscles arent "back to normal" so pop out quicker maybe...? [hhmm]

[Mackrelmint]

I'm 15weeks today - 2nd pregnancy - and definitely starting to show, although not looking pg yet as not a proper bump - just a bit chubby. Trousers were feeling tight from 6 or 7 weeks though in both pregnancies, and very bloated towards the end of the day. Last time I didn't really show until around 17 weeks though.

[RubyLovesMayMay]

I think I started showing from the start

Had put on weight around my stomach anyway but I definitely had a bloat on from about 9 weeks and people were guessing

I officially at 13+6 have put my maternity trousers on for the first time today

[KD0706]

I'm 14 weeks and my trousers are definitely too tight and I'm wearing maternity jeans (the ones with the bit of stretchy material at the pockets, not full on bump band), and other trousers a size too big.

But I'm not showing as such and don't think anybody would guess I'm pg.

So, try not to worry. Tighter waistband doesn't necessarily mean you look pg and if you wear slightly longer tops I bet nobody will notice

[flossiXxX]

With my 1st i just looked a lil bloated until at least 18-20 weeks! This time at 12 weeks people were already feeling my 'bump' saying wow ... but i suffer badly from bloating! (im slim so bloating makes my bump enlarge alot lol)
So i can only really tell how big my bump is 1st thing in the morning before i have eaten lol! It grows alot in the day lol!

At about 8 weeks i stopped wearing my tighter jeans and clothes lol! I am now 16 weeks and look like what i did at 6months with my 1st! lol!

I must admit i do love it tho hehe espec when i have eaten alot hehe! and im looking 4ward to buying some new clothes too! x

[GirlWithTheMouseyHair]

belly popped out at 8 weeks, people who knew thought I looked definately pregnant and a few friends had guessed by 10weeks, but it kind fo stayed the same then until I was about 16weeks and have looked pretty much the same as the last pregnancy since

[Georgimama]

by 12 weeks my normal work skirts and trousers were too tight. by 20 weeks i was unmistakably visibly pregnant.

[CuntryManner]

Gosh, I showed from conception on both of mine.

[TooImmature2BDumbledore]

My kind friend told me I was showing at about 13 weeks, and then 2 days later so did two people at work (who already knew)! Grr. I'm 17 weeks now and nobody who didn't know has commented, but perhaps they are just being polite.

[thegauntlet]

depends what i am wearing, but last week ( 18weeks) had to finally undo the button of my jeans and put it on an elastic! If i dressed it up I looked fairly pregnant by 14 weeks, but felt fatter and had put on a kilo by 12 weeks x

[IssyStark]

Before 10 weeks! Had to get my maternity clothes out very early...

[MixedClassBaby]

I'm 9 weeks(ish) and trousers are getting a bit tight around the waist. Only 10 months since giving birth to DD so maybe that makes a difference? Also, weirdly, my 'bump' is on the right hand side of my belly as it was throughout my pregnancy before. And my linea nigra has returned in all its former glory.

[DialMforMummy]

Like others, I have started showing from about 10 weeks or so. That's when my trousers became a wee bit too tight. But then again, this second pregnancy has come rather quickly after the first one.

[benandhollyandgaston]

In maternity clothes at about 4 months second time round whereas it was more like 6 months first time round.

Bump was much smaller (so I'm told) by the end second time round though, and I was carrying a considerably smaller baby.

[Flisspaps]

I'm now 14+6 (snap with bushymcbush!) and I am only just starting to look possibly pregnant. I'm a size 14-16 normally though and have a bit of a belly most of the time anyway. I was so off my food for the first trimester that I gained no weight. Week 13 hit and I gained 4lbs...hello appetite.

[bushymcbush]

I'm 14.6 weeks with number 2. I've been showing since about 10 weeks. When I announced at 12 weeks, some people I work with had already guessed. It's definitely a bigger bump than the first time.

[Tinkerisdead]

8 weeks i had dig out my maternity jeans as other trousers were just way too tight. By 12 weeks i had a definate bump. By 14 weeks i was embarrassed because everyone was commenting and i had to say im 'only' 14 weeks. Im now 6 months and really quite huge. Although this time its more like a football and i can still feel my waist. Maybe this one's a boy.

[MayDayChild]

Immediately. Everyone knew when I officially announced. Bloat city, huge appetite... Whichever is the cause, not much you can do so get creative with your wardrobe or moan loudly and frequently that you really must go on a diet

[WeLoveHaribo]

Around 22wk with both 1st and 2nd. 24wk now got teeny tiny bump that ppl could fail to spot!! Xx

[MrBloomsNursery]

People were still guessing at around 18 weeks with "is she? isn't she?" I started showing at around 20 weeks I think...and completely unmissably pregnant at around 25 weeks. Mind you, my jeans went up a size at 6-9 weeks, but it was easily covered with my normal clothes.

[VFVF]

Sorry, that face was at me not looking slimmer, not at your question

[VFVF]

I think about 14 weeks.

I had morning sickness and loss of appetite for a good few weeks which helped me loose fat, but growing uterus countered that so I just looked exactly the same until about 14 weeks

[mumt1]

I think you will definatly be showing by xmas, I'm 13 +2 weeks with my second n I have a bump. Although at 6 weeks I looked huge...I swelled n bloated which did go

[Quenelle]

I'm on my second pregnancy. At 8 weeks I was very bloated and DH and I both thought I was showing. I'm nearly 12 weeks now and the bloating has gone so I can't see a bump at all yet.