Can anyone relate?
I'm a curvy size 8/10, in that I have a small frame but it's well fleshed out, if that makes sense.
My tummy was never a problem area and although I havent had a flat stomach since before I had kids, it's not too bad. I get bloated around my period or if I gain weight etc.
A few days after I last ovulated, I met some people I hadnt seen for a while. They immediately looked at my stomach and seemed quite excited by what they thought was 'my news'. Lots of colleagues started looking at my stomach that week: I remember telling my husband because it kept happening so much.
Not long after, I found out I was pregnant very, very early (8dpo). The bloating got worse and worse. I told a colleague who told me at 6 weeks that I was 'getting a bit of a something', which was true, and other colleagues were starting to look at my tummy that early on. At the end of that week, another close colleague told me it was getting quite noticeable and suggested I cover it with my cardigan. She was right and people in work were definitely starting to look.
Now I am 10 weeks and not only am I huge (I look at 5 months) but I also feel like there is a huge baby in there 😆 I feel like I've been inflated with a pump and am having to do that thing where you slide into the car because there's no room for your organs to go if you bend!
What is going on? Why am I showing so early (because it's my 3rd?)? What actually happens, physically, to make one's normal abdomen just give up!?
I had a scan at 7 weeks and there is just one baby in there who was measuring 7 weeks. I have put on normal weight as I am starving all the time: this may be a factor.
It all seems like such a farce to be hiding the pregnancy til my 12 seek scan when my belly is massive and people have been noticing since my baby was barely a fertilised egg! Thankfully I'm on holidays from work for the next few weeks but this has been very odd!