With your first baby, when did your...

[DangerMousey]

Bump really 'pop out' into a proper big bump?

I am 18 weeks and still just look fatter than usual! I do look a bit pregnant especially when I wear maternity clothes but naked there is definitely still 2 rolls there!! Ie above and below my belly button.

I was a curvy size 14 and 5'8" before I got up the stick, so would be especially interested to hear from similarly proportioned ladies :)

at 36 weeks

I remember waiting for my 20 week scan at the hospital waiting room & I STILL didn't look pregnant. I did by 25 weeks tho!

And to answer you properly was size 12 5,9

It does eventually then suddenly there is no mistaking it, a massive bump... probably nearer 30 weeks

I'm 18 weeks with my second and have ahd an obvious bump since about 14 weeks, such a differnce to the last time where I could be mistaken for fat until 30 weeks or so!

Same as Tigresswoods
I'm about 5'9" and a 12-14. First time not obvious at all until about 25 ish weeks, didn't wear maternity clothes until around 26 weeks either, DD born 3 weeks later.
This time, bloated at 8 weeks, little bump at 10, maternity clothes depending on the style between 15 and 20. Feel massive now at 37+

At about 15 weeks. My bump ended up huuuuge though and DD was 10lb 10oz at birth...

At 5'8" you are a little taller than average, so baby can stretch out a little more. Therefore I'm guessing it'll take a while for you to have a 'no mistaking it' bump. A friend of mine is 6' and never really had a giant bump - I always liked to think of her baby reclining at his ease in there even after 35 weeks :)

I'm 5'5" and (ahem) well-covered, so I am only obviously preggers when I pass the 30 week mark . In first preg I was sitting at a table, 38 weeks gone, and the waitress brightly said 'gosh, are you pregnant?' when my mum mentioned it. I was horrified!!

I'm about your size and remember getting offered a seat on the train when I was 23/24 weeks. Either the bump must have been obvious or the kind offerer was very brave!

Thanks guys - just been feeling a bit worried over the last few days that I don't seem to be growing like I should be!

Also haven't really put on any weight in the last couple of weeks. I have put on about 8-9lbs so far, but now seem to have 'stalled', just at the point where all the books lead you to believe you'll start packing it on :-/

I guess everyone's different with this too, right? The MW heard a heartbeat at my 16 week appointment, a couple of weeks ago, so there's no reason to assume anything's gone wrong since then, is there??

I was about 25 weeks also with my first . I was only a size 10/12 then but somehow my bump was very neat . 22wks with dc2 just now and although size 18 now I feel I'm starting to look pg now rather than just fat . Thank goodness because for about the last 8 weeks I've just looked enormous !!!

It's my first baby too. I'm 22 weeks, and I seem to have changed shape quite dramatically in the last fortnight alone!

At 20 weeks I just looked very fat. My boobs were bigger and my tummy had grown a lot, so only my "fat day" baggy jeans still fastened up, but I'd only put on 7lb or so.

Now, at 22 weeks, I've put on another 3lb - so 10lb altogether - and people who didn't know I was pregnant have started commenting. I've definitely got a "proper" bump now rather than just a chubby tummy, and it seems to have gone hard. Previously there was definitely a little roll there, but now my bump is all firm and sticking out.
I've also gone up about a cup size in the last fortnight, and have started needing the loo a LOT more, so I don't know if the baby's grown and is sitting more heavily on my bladder.

Oh, sorry, I should add I'm a size 12 and weighed 10st 10lb to start with. At 22 weeks, I'm now 11st 6lb.

I'm 15 weeks with my first and people started noticing around 12 weeks!

I've now got a definite, but small, bump and any non-maternity trousers are uncomfortable. Oh God I'm going to have a massive baby!!!

I'm 5ft 6 and usually a size 10/12.

18w tomorrow with PFB. Size 12 and 5'4" (so same sort of shape as you). Baby kicking like a good'un so i know s/he's fine.

I look like a chubby munter who ate all the pies. No bump, or not noticeable in clothes anyway. Still comfortably in my old 14 jeans (minus belt, need to get a bump band to hold them up i think) and normal other clothes.

in sympathy!

Oh, and I've put on about 3kg!

The day after i told work i was pregnant!. I didn't tell my boss (with either of my pregnancies) that i was pregnant until 1 was 22 weeks and went into work in usual size 12 clothes (I'm 5'9). Following day they would not fit and i was in maternity clothes all the way from then! Bizarre but it was literally overnight. Have no idea why or how

First time round I had what looked like bad bloating at 16wks and didn't really look pregnant so to speak until I was 20-25wks....even then we are talking a very neat bump. I didn't start to really put weight on until around 30wks. This time round (2nd) I'm in my maternity clothes at 16wks!

I am the same size as you OP, and tummy was obvious with clothes on around early twenties of weeks. Never got huge, but that was because DS was footling breech.

Second time I was in mat clothes at 9 weeks!

Im 21 weeks with my first normally a size 10 and yday a lady commented that I had a baby growing in my belly to her daughter so hopefully I'm looking preg now and my just plump