larger ladies - when did bump appear?!

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Just that really, I'm a size 18-20 and 5'8 tall, currently coming up to 22 weeks and still don't look any different - when I lay down, I can see/feel the difference but I just want it to be noticeable!

When did any larger ladies get your belly?!

I started looked noticeably pregnant around 20 weeks I reckon...I'm only 5'3 though so not much space for it to spread out I'm a size 16/18 if that helps. Not put any weight on though so far (I'm 24 weeks on Wednesday), so it was more of a matter of waiting to change shape!

I'd like to know this too. I'm a size 22/24 and it's years since I was last pregnant and I was a wee bit lighter then too (although still obese) - I can't remember!
I am 15+3 now and feel bigger especially in the evening but no discernable bump. I'm 5'2" and my weight is mostly on my tummy so I'm weeble-like anyway! Through the flab, I think I can feel the top if my uterus, which is still under my belly button. My upper tummy flab seems larger/bigger and I'm wondering if that is because baby/womb is pushing up lower tummy flab to upper part of tummy?

lilydaisyrose I know how feel, I'm a size 16 - 18, 5'3 and I'm 15+4 and while I can see my shape has changed, it isn't a noticeable bump yet, though my fiancee says he can see a little bump! And sometimes I think I do too, but I think it might be a little while before it becomes noticeable to other people. I suppose it's just a waiting game! Everyone is different, but I can't wait till it becomes an obvious bump! Xx

I've been wondering this too. I'm 15+5 people keep telling me I'm showing but I can see I'm not and its just my normal big belly with wind!

I'm 5"8 and a size 16-18, at 14 weeks I have a discernible bump. It's only shown up in the last week and I am well proportioned - not fat in one particular area (just cuddly all over)

I'm 23 weeks and size 20 - bump has popped out over the last 2 weeks. Other people can see it now (I still just feel fat!)

I was a similar size to OP when pregnant with DS2.

A depressingly large amount of people were surprised when I had DS2. Talking about people who'd actually seen me in person shortly before DS2 was born.

I got comments ranging from "but you didn't look pregnant 2 days before DS2 was born at all!" to "well, you looked bigger but I thought you'd just been eating too many cakes"

So it kind of felt like my bump with DS2 was only noticeable to people who'd been explicitly told I was pregnant. He was born at 37 weeks too, so you'd have expected a bump to be there.

Some people just don't think when they speak clearly!

Tbf I wear baggy tops and people keep saying oooo look you're gettjng a bump - but it's just my belly hanging as usual lol

Yeah, me too- ive just stopped breathing in my belly like I used to!

I'm 18 weeks and I think have started to look pregnant in the last week, though I could just look more fat (no one in my office who doesn't already know has mentioned it!). I'm a size 18 bottom and 16 top, but I generally carry most of my weight in my bum . I also look more pregnant throughout the day, by tonight I'll look about 8 months gone!!

Although it feels anathema to me, I think wearing tighter stretcher clothes when pregnant is the way to go as then your bump/fat tummy masquerading as bump is more prominent!

I was half a stone overweight (bmi around 27) when i got preg with dc1 (5ft) and no one ever noticed I was preg. When people found out they assumed he was very premature and very ill. It was summer so I wasn't hiding him under layers either. (he was little but full term and healthy)

DC2 I was about 1.5 stone overweight and people noticed around 30-35 weeks, although that was winter so I think they would have noticed sooner if it was summer.

No-one ever noticed I was pregnant. I wasn't massive but I've very curvy. Bump just filled my waist that was previously tiny and expanded it to my hips meaning I could fit into highstreet clothes for once.

Hi Lilydaisyrose, I'm the same, I need to feel like my tummy is now getting bigger higher up, below my boobs and above my belly button, perhaps because the my uterus is pushing everything else up??

I am 5'9, size 16-18. First pregnancy didn't really look pregnant till 26 weeks. This one a bit earlier at 22-23 weeks.

I'm 5ft 6 and about a 16/18 too. I looked quite obviously pregnant by 20 weeks, if not before - I tend to carry weight around my stomach more than anywhere else and have huge boobs, but am not big in other areas really.

I am slightly showing at 17+4 but I don't have a proper formed bump, it's like it is in 2 sections. I had quite a flabby belly beforehand and had a couple of rolls of fat, so that might be why. Do you think it just my full bump hasn't formed yet?

I'm 5'9 and an 18, and I think I only really started showing from about 25 weeks - before I just looked generally thicker around the middle rather than having a definite bump. Even now (28+4) it's much more noticeable in some clothes than others.