When did you show with second baby?

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I'm 7 weeks on Sunday and the bloat is unbelievable. We're not planning to tell anybody for at least another couple of weeks but already feeling self conscious that people can notice

Will the bloat reduce eventually until I get a proper bump? With my first I didn't show until about 21 weeks!

Yes I was showing by 8-9 weeks with number two and definitely not with number one. A high up bump/bloat - had to stop wearing some tighter T shirts at that point as we weren't planning to announce it that early!

@MigAndMog I don't want to announce until at least between 10-12 weeks but feel it will be noticeable by then 😬

I’m with you here. I’m in week 6 of pregnancy #2 and by the evening I look about 20 weeks 🤣

we aren’t planning to announce until 12 weeks but I suspect people will know by then.

I went to a nice hotel when 8 weeks and I’ve never felt so awful. I was literally like a big swollen balloon 🤦🏻‍♀️ the bloated feeling definitely goes down gradually til 12/13 weeks but I did look bigger second time

I bloated so badly from 4 weeks, midwife thought i was much further along at my 8 week booking in. Mine didn’t go it just eventually turned into baby. Didn’t bloat at all with my first.

It's so hard if your core muscles are not fully recovered from your first pregnancy and delivery. Are there any yoga/plates classes near you or could you do some YouTube videos suitable for first trimester?

Huge gap between pregnancy and lost a lot of weight in between. I didn't look pregnant with number 2 until 26 ish wks.

Was so bloated by the time I took my test second time around, looked 5 months pregnant by about 7 weeks it was a nightmare. It is just bloat isn't it but by the time your digestive system adjusts to all the hormone the baby bump has taken over 🤣

Massively earlier…21ish weeks with DS1, about 4 weeks with DS2 (my first pregnancy symptom being a complaint that all my clothing ‘fits wrong’). It did settle down but I was obviously pregnant by 16 weeks.

Around 7 weeks, it was ridiculous!

Felt like virtually from conception. As with another poster it was bloat, but bloat that went down at the same rate baby grew. It wasn't obvious with DC1 until into the 3rd trimester (I am obese though). I only needed to size up my clothes as well, while with DC2 I needed maternity wear before the end of the first trimester.

Be prepared to be asked. I wasn't going to announce until after the 12 week scan either, but my family sussed it at my grandfather's funeral when I was 6-8 weeks.

By 9-10 weeks it was obvious

Bloats too real 6 weeks here and this is my belly

@Mummapenguin20 Wow would have thought you were much further along than that I tend to find my bloat is much worse first & last thing at night

I’m Deffintly not gunna hide this one for 6 more weeks. I actually have a scan Monday at epu I’m beging to think there gunna tell me I’m a month ahead! X