Can't get naked in front of DP.

[PregnantMiss]

My bump is huge. It's massive. I'm only 6 months, I want DP to love my bump and to be intimate with him, but I just feel so embarrassed of my body. My boobs are swollen, I have water retention, my bump is huge and I have a few stretch marks, I am covered in veins... he says I look beautiful. I say I look like an ugly lump.

Did anyone else feel depressed about their body even though it's doing something incredible?

Do men really still find their partner's attractive when looking whale-esque with raging red stretch marks everywhere?

I feel so down and don't know what to do. I could cry instantly thinking about it...

Some men find it incredibly sexy, yes. I think it’s knowing they created the baby inside of you and that your body is changing because of them.

I know what you mean though and I have found myself turning my back to DP when I get changed now. I feel really huge and whale-like.

I agree. I think knowing that you're carrying his child and feeling responsible for why your body is changing makes him feel a kind of biological possessiveness, if that makes sense. I felt ridiculous too by the time I got to 7 months, even though DH is nothing but lovely about my bump and general figure (my God, the cellulite 😲) but I splashed out on a fancy maternity dress to cheer myself up and that perked me up no end!

Thanks everyone. I love being pregnant, I just feel as though I look ridiculous. I never look at another pregnant woman and think they look silly, just me! I'm a size 8 normally but have a huge bump already and dread to think how enormous I will be in 3 months time! It's all normal isn't it, so I don't know why I feel so embarrassed about my body...

I felt like a sexless heffalump in pregnancy and had lights off during sex as i found my bump a turn-off tbh, but my husband didn't care - men are just happy to be getting intimate! we are always more critical of our own bodies, and I tried to embrace my changing body the rest of the time - after all, you are growing a human inside you, and you won't look like that forever. believe your partner when he says your bump is beautiful and try to look at yourself in a more positive light too - maybe take a series of 'bumpies' that will be precious in years to come, or get a pedicure, or do some self care to make yourself feel good. it's almost certainly the hormones making you want to cry and it's perfectly normal. I may never look the same as pre-pregnancy but I have a beautiful baby and it is all worth it in the end. Enjoy your pregnancy!

I saw a programme once that suggested men are (for the most part) programmed to find pregnant women more attractive, something to do with seeing the woman as fertile.