anyone else wish they felt more... pregnant!?!

[MrsRV]

16 weeks on Monday & don't feel preggers at all. just feel fat. because basically I am & have eaten for 12 for these last few months!! annoyed at size of arse/thighs for not fitting into clothes. want to feel this baby moving for a bit of reassurance!!!!

you will... just wait, give it 10 weeks

Don't worry you will get there - then you can look back on this thread as the good old days where your bladder was used just for your own bodily functions and not as a kickboxing practice for baby :)

exactly just you wait until you have to be a contortionist to shave your legs, you just have to blind it with your fanjo tbh.

your bras wont fit, your fingers will get fat & every mother looks at you with pity

its just such a beautiful time sob

30 weeks here. It'll come believe me.

You're doing well not feel pg yet. By then my SPD had kicked in & I was getting the really bad heartburn / vomiting I get in 2nd trimester under control with medication.

The eating slows down as you run out of stomach space.

Sorry, not actually pg, but saw ZenNudist was the last poster, so felt obligated/ compulsed to make sure this thread is full of Zen...

Can I post too - as I'm a Xenadog and it sounds like "Zen"?

Seriously, OP you will feel and look pregnant soon enough despite eating for 12! Don't try to rush through to the end; it will be here before you know it and those last few weeks when you most definitely look and feel pregnant will just drag! (I'm almost 37 weeks and the last 5 weeks have actually taken 6 months I swear!)

I remember feeling much happier being pregnant with DD and I was a bloody stone heavier than I am now at this stage with her. I just feel fat and pissed off this time. Already started fighting with my tights. fucking bastard things.

I feel way too pregnant, I wouldn't mind it c

I feel way too pregnant, I wouldn't mind it coming down a notch or two! I'm 20 weeks and into my 15th week of continual ''morning' sickness', have developed chronic IBS and am terribly c

I feel way too pregnant, I wouldn't mind it coming down a notch or two! I'm 20 weeks and into my 15th week of continual ''morning' sickness', have developed chronic IBS and am terribly constipated. I also feel like a sack of bricks despite having lost 2 stone. So maybe you're doing alright?

I also cannot use my phone properly, as you can see!

I'm not even sure what pregnant feels like. I'm 27 weeks now and I still don't know! Is it when I feel him kick? Is it feeling more likely to cry at any given moment? Or is it some nebulous feeling of fertility that I just don't get yet?
Every woman and pregnancy is different, I don't think it does a lot of good to constantly compare your symptoms. If you've had a 12 week scan and there was a baby there, you're pregnant, whether you feel it or not :)

I'm 39 weeks and i don't feel pregnant. My coat is much tighter and I get the odd bout of acid reflux, but that is the extent of it for me. No cravings, no stretch marks, no dodgy balance. I'm just as mobile as I was before.

Not boasting (that would be a weird thing to boast about) but I did envision it to be a lot different/ harder iyswim? I've seen programs where they put prosthetic bumps onto teenage girls to scare them as they would get a shock from the extra weight and the girls are like 'OMAGOD It's like, so hard!' - bullshit in my case. I feel as light as a feather, and my growth scans/ midwife appointment measurements have told me that baby is measuring around 2 weeks bigger than average.

Moral of the story is, everyone is different so you can't gauge how you'll feel from other people's experiences- I am in no way discounting other posters individual experiences of 'feeling pregnant,' I'm just saying be aware that not everything in the books will apply to you- you don't need to 'watch out' for anything. I like to think of it like every person has their own individual cocktail of symptoms. x

tracy

lucky bitch!!!
at 39 weeks I was on bed rest

EXTERMINATE bed rest? With an unlimited supply of and yeah?

I'm the same as tracy some days - I forget I'm pregnant until I try to turn over in bed/put on tights/bend over.
Some evenings the baby moves so much I wish I could hand him/her to DH to have for a bit, so I could lose the roiling feeling.

I totally remember wishing to be more pg than I was, though - had no bump until 23-24 weeks (am tall and well padded), had no movements, ms died at 15 weeks, leaving me feeling just... meh for about 8 weeks.