16 weeks, big bump, consultant just told me its all fat?

[osterleymama]

Can she be right? She said my uterus can't have popped out yet and I must have just put on weight. I had a flat tummy 16 weeks ago, I'm still normal everywhere else and I've gained 6 pounds so far. I look properlly pregnant though and my bump was enormous with my last pregnancy due to big baby and excess fluid.

No way... That's rubbish, I am tiny size 6 and by 16 weeks with my second had a very noticeable hard baby bump! I could feel little pokes through my tummy with my hand by this stage... None of it was fat at all.
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That's what I thought! I can feel baby move too. Weirdo consultant. Thanks for the reassurance. I had a look of unspeakable horror on my face when she said that. Oh the vanity!

Cheeky cow! I was huge with all mine although fairly huge without them too! but especially early on with DS2 & DD(3) - people kept asking when DD was due and when I said November they all nodded and smiled, then did a double-take and said "do you mean September?!" er no, November

I've had a noticeable bump since about 8 weeks (this is DD4 though....) and I have lost weight as I am a stone under my pre-pg weight I am overweight though even so. I had someone pat my bump and ask me 'How many days left now?' last month when I was 5m pg . It's pretty much all baby though.

She sounds nice! Sounds like a baby bump to me x

I love mumsnet. I can feel the mortification fade away again.

I think by 16w your actual uterus is only as high up as your belly button, or maybe not even that, but that doesn't mean your bump is "all fat"! I'd guess that your growing uterus is pushing everything else (i.e. internal organs) out, and the hard bump is actually your stomach muscles, with your uterus somewhere lower down inside. I'm the same this time around; 23w now but by 16w I definitely had a proper bump, even though my uterus was still technically quite small.

What a cow! I'm 17 weeks pregnant with my first child, and have put on a stone and a half, taking me from normal BMI to looking like a hippo. A lot of it is undoubtedly fat that I could have avoided by nt pigging out so much (like my new massive bum) but also my tits have already gone from a DD to a G cup and I reckon if pregnancy is doing that to parts of me I'm not surprised the rest of my body is following suit. Honestly, pregnancy is miserable enough without watching what you eat as well - but you've hardly put on any weight at all anyway! If you've only put on half a stone I think you're doing really really well at not being fat whatever your miserable old consultant says. A nurse once told me that I was overweight when A. I wasn't, as I proved to her using he own BMI chart, and B. I was recovering from an eating disorder, so it was a bloody dangerous thing to say to me - so unfortunately not all females in the medical profession are worth listening to!

I think my bump was mainly fat/kitkat/cake/chips at that point!

But woe betide anyone who had told me that!