Obviously showing at 14 weeks?

[BeautifulBlue]

I am 14 weeks today with my second pregnancy & I have a baby bump equivalent to my 20 week bump with DC 1! Is this normal? I’m not sure how much weight I’ve put on (I’m in denial & refuse to weigh myself) but I feel so fat & frumpy!

Yes. I was in maternity clothes at 6 weeks with my 2nd!

Really @cottonsock? I haven’t been able to wear jeans for weeks... living in leggings. But I just feel it’s so early to be obviously ‘pregnant’ so I just keep trying to hide this fat gut! It’s really not easy - everything looks shit! I’m really grateful to be pregnant again, & it’s a much wanted pregnant I’m not normally this vain! But it’s really depressing having basically nothing to wear you don’t feel like a whale in. Roll on 20ish weeks where I can confidently blame pregnancy for this round belly! 🤣

It's mostly bloat, not that that will make you feel much better.
I couldn't believe the size of me, but it's probably just our view of ourselves.

I showed pretty much immediately second time around. I just embraced it and wore only maternity clothes from 12 weeks onwards.

First baby here but by 10 weeks I was so bloated I couldn’t wear my normal jeans had to go into leggings for a while until I finally gave in and bought maternity jeans about 18 weeks 🙈

I showed before 12 weeks with both!

First baby here - 11 weeks, short and (was!) relatively slim - have got a definite pot belly and am entirely expecting to look very obviously pregnant in a couple of weeks. I'll be glad once the 12 week scan is past and I can stop worrying about wearing baggy clothes.

I ballooned within 3 weeks of all my pregnancies. With my first I was showing obviously at 6 weeks and people at work were asking how far along I was. By 6 months people were saying 'oh it must be any day now'. Everyone was saying it must be twins. It meant I seemed to be pregnant forever. People were saying 'have you not had that baby yet you must be really overdue?' I would say I've still got 3 months to go!! At 3 months I was bigger than people who were due.

So glad I’m not alone 🙏🏼 Full expecting the ‘twins’ comment & YOURE HUGE! Yeah ta, thanks... hadn’t noticed

To be fair I really loved being big. I took all my ' fuck me you're massive' comments very proudly - and felt extremely beautiful (I even had a naked photo shoot at 7 months with my first ). It must have been the hormones! Try to embrace your expanding beautiful body OP.

@MrsKoala that’s lovely! I really think I’ll embrace & love my body much more once I’m further along & obviously pregnant (I did with my 1st) I think it’s just this inbetween sort of chubby not pregnant looking stage that makes me feel shit! I feel like I have to tell everyone just to have an excuse for the podge 🤣

This is what I’m managing. I’m 11 weeks in about 50 minutes. The bump is mostly fat and the bloating from drinking half a pint of water in a hurry. It’s also bad posture, but I’m not holding in the bloat because ouch. If I poke my stomach muscles, I can now feel that they are not flat like they used to be, but unfortunately I don’t think that is a significant proportion of my impressive physique.

I’m not really going to get away with hiding this pregnancy, am I?

I don't know if it's normal, but I looked second trimester at 14 weeks with my second. Some of us just carry bigger, and your body gives up earlier when you've done it before!

Yep really normal. First time I didn’t show at all until 20 weeks. I didn’t even tell work until 18 weeks and no one had a clue. This time I had a very obvious bump by 10/11 weeks. It was a lot bigger than first time round early one but wasn’t any bigger later on in the pregnancy. I’m 40+2 today and it’s around the same size as this point last time