What counts as heavily pregnant?

[DaleyBump]

When do you think being "heavily pregnant" starts? 26 weeks exactly and I feel huge. I have to roll to get off the bed. Flights of stairs give me a feeling of dread, and I've mastered the art of picking things up with my toes, because if I bend down I'll never get back up.

So what do you think? :):

I'd say third trimester.

When you waddle while walking.

I waddle now when I've been walking for a while, does that count?

I'm just over 26 weeks (although for some reason I spent the last week thinking I was almost 27 weeks until my phone app reminded me otherwise, stupid baby brain lol ), I waddle at times due to PGP and feel huge (although I don't think I look as pregnant as I'd like to )...I'm going with third trimester as well for being counted as "heavily" pregnant. Congratulations by the way, we must be due around the same time!

If say anywhere from 5-6 months ish unless youre carrying more than one lol. Or an extremely large baby, like DS2, who was 10lb 6oz born

Oh god Helentres 10lb 6oz?! I am hoping for like around 7lb (as i read thats the average) and dreading the pain, god knows how I'd manage 10lb, you have a huge amount of my respect !!

I have a friend who posts almost daily updates on how uncomfortable/hard work pregnancy is (no health issues, no sickness, no pgp etc). I am 36 weeks and I would say it has been affecting me for a couple of weeks and I am now really suffering by the end of a day/finding it tough. She is 17 weeks. Drives me mental!!! ( I know for some pregnancy is truly awful for all of it etc, I'm not minimising that but just her experience which is like no one else has ever been pregnant _ and it is not even her first!).
Really have to bite my tongue when she starts with the sighing if asked anything about how she is doing!

When you're

a) vast (usually 30+ weeks, and of course you just keep growing with big increases in final weeks), and
b) you grunt when you get out of chairs because it's a real heave.

I'd say at least 7 months but possibly later when some of your maternity clothes stop fitting.

I considered myself heavily pregnant around 33-34 weeks. I was less mobile by that point, unable to reach my toes etc. now at 38 I'm most definitely huge and everything is more of an effort. It is the most wonderful time though, I love my bump but can't wait to meet this baby.

I'm with Meditrina - I started to feel heavily pregnant when I had to start levering myself out of chairs with my arms! And waddling. Oh and psyching myself up to move in bed!

So about third tri.

Around 37 weeks? Because just when you think you are as big as you can possibly be, you get even bigger in ways you hadn't even imagined! (Love the description of "vast" - great word for it!)

My husband has been using this description for about a week. I'm 33 weeks.

I think it was my grunting like a wildebeest on the Serengeti when getting up off the sofa that caused it.

I would say anything after 31 weeks as I have never experienced being heavily pregnant having given birth at 30 and 31 weeks. I was really hoping that last time with all medical interventions in place I may get to 35 weeks and I will waddle etc but it never happened You may not feel very lucky to be at that stage but trust me you are and your baby is in the best place.

DD was 10lbs 7oz and I had polyhydramnios (excess liquid) so I looked and felt like a whale from 28 weeks onwards.

I'm now 25 weeks and already starting to feel very heavy - I'm also making weird noises when I bend down so DH bought me one of those grabber devices as a joke; he's a comedian.

I'm 28 weeks tomorrow and my friend described me as heavily pregnant this week... I nearly cried (think that could possibly be the hormones) I would be nowhere close to describing myself as 'heavily pregnant' but I think I may see something different to everyone else... I'm kidding myself aren't I? :(

I'd say 36 weeks. I thought I was 'heavily pregnant' until the last 4 weeks when I realised just how big I could become. The huge bump, the waddling, the people asking me when I'm going to drop....! x

8 months.
My first two were huge, but I wouldn't have classed myself as heavily pregnant until after 35 weeks. Number 3 came at 35 weeks so I never felt heavily pregnant with him. All of you at 28 weeks, just wait until 38 weeks plus....then you'll know what heavily pregnant feels like

I'm 40+3 I do not waddle (sadly ) Am I a freak?

I would say I've been heavily pregnant since about 35 weeks- when my bump started getting in other people's way and I can't get off the sofa unaided.

Chillisbopper, just 'over 26 weeks' is the same as 'almost 27 weeks' isn't it? or do I have baby brain too? (8 months late!)

It sounds like its different for everyone, but I would class it as when you reach the point where you start to have to plan how you are going to actually get up/change positions in bed a good five minutes in advance of when you actually to it. Or when you start weighing whether it is actually worth getting up at all!

smallbee - best description yet!

Good point, smallbee.

I've even taken to putting my hair up in a high bun at night, so i don't have to constantly use my abs to get up and remove it from under my head when I toss and turn.

Surely a new height of laziness?

When you have to stand sideways to get up to the sink to get a glass of water, you keep opening doors into the bump, when the bump is further out than your boobs, when putting on your shoes becomes a climbing everest level of effort, and you realise that you think you're walking a normal pace, but actually 1 year-olds can over-take you with ease.

So for me, about 35 weeks....

themarriedwoman it was a long time since I had my boys, I've conveniently forgotten those last few weeks of pregnancy and I am staying in my 28 week bubble for now ;) a 9.4 baby for my 1st... I'm sure I was HEAVILY pregnant but i can't remember ;-)