How big will I get?? (Second baby)

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So I have just turned 16 weeks and feel that I look huge compared to my first pregnancy at this point. I really wasn't visibly pregnant until about 6-7 months the first time. I'm already in maternity bottoms this time. My question is do you just show earlier with a second pregnancy or will I keep getting bigger and bigger and end up much bigger than I was the first time around by the end of my pregnancy?

I'm coming up to twenty weeks with my second, and I am definitely showing earlier and bigger than I was at this stage last time, body has done it before, so everything can stretch quicker the second time :)

I didn't show until about 7 months with DC1.
DC2 was a different story!
I think it's entirely normal to show much, much earlier with your second.
For the record though, I gained about the same amount of weight in each of my pregnancies. The only thing that changed was showing earlier in the second pregnancy.

Sane as PP. I just looked a bit fatter than usual (BMI 36 atuntil the third trimester with DC1. Never needed any maternity clothes, just sized up DC2 however... Needed maternity clothes before the end of the first trimester. People were asking if I was pregnant around 8 weeks. I was visibly pregnant, and not just fat,I definitely had a bigger bump by the end, but, again as with PP, I gained the same amount

Thanks DC2 for posting while I was editing...

• BMI 36 at booking with DC1
• Visibly pregnant and not just fat (BMI 38 at booking) shortly into the second trimester.
• I gained the same amount of weight as I did with DC1 (~15kg).

In short, I felt, and looked, much bigger with DC2 than with DC1.

It’s not inevitable. I definitely showed earlier with my second baby - I think you stretch out more quickly as your body has done it before - but I didn’t get bigger overall.

By the end of my second pregnancy I was actually smaller than with DC1 and had also put on half the weight I put on with my first pregnancy.