To ask when you started looking pregnant?

[TheHeartyStew]

I was just wondering when you started showing?

I’m currently pregnant with my first and still don’t look pregnant at all. My pregnancy has turned out to be high risk so I’m having scans and appointments all of the time, so I get to see her a lot which I am thankful for as I keep gaslighting myself that I’m not pregnant anymore as I don’t look it.

I’m getting comments from a lot of people asking where the baby is or if I’m sure she’s in there which are said in a light hearted way but they are starting to upset me, I think due to me being high risk so I’m worried anyway. I went to maternity triage two days ago as I had some bleeding (thankfully all is okay) and as I got up to the toilet one man commented to his partner “what is she two days pregnant” and started to laugh. Our local triage doesn’t see woman until they’re 18 weeks so this was a bit shitty.

I know some women show later so I was just wondering when everyone else did! I haven’t put any weight on either but nobody has commented on this or my lack of bump to me. I’ll be having extra growth scans when I hit 30 weeks as I’m at risk or FGR due to medication they’ve had to put me on but baby is currently measuring okay.

With my first I was about 24 weeks, and I was only a size 6. DD1 was pretty much bang average size when she was born.

A very very tall woman I know barely showed her whole pregnancy. She joked that the baby must just have stayed fully vertical, lying up her torso without coming outwards at all.

The man making jokes about a pregnant woman in the waiting room of maternity triage is a dick though.

Congratulations!

I was 33 when I was pregnant with my first child, 40 years ago.

I didn't have much of a bump until I was 5.5 to 6 months pregnant and by the time I gave birth I had gained just 10lbs.

At my largest, I did not look huge, it remained a very neat bump. There were no medical concerns around growth. My baby arrived nearly three weeks early and he was a 6lb 10oz baby and within range for length and head circumference, although he was a little thin - possibly due to missing out on another three weeks of more in the womb. I was 5 feet tall.

I hope the rest of your pregnancy goes well.

24-25 weeks. At 24 weeks I was still wearing my normal trousers/jeans!

I didn’t really look pregnant until 20 weeks

With DC1, not until about six months.

DC2 much earlier, probably four months.

he was being a thoughtless idiot.

about 24 weeks. at 22 weeks i felt uncomfortable doing up jeans etc but i may not have definitely looked pregnant - just tubby! Im not skinny anyway so it wouldn't have shown the same way.

My year 11 students noticed at 17 weeks. Most others people after 20 weeks.

I was very slim and my main work clothing were body con dresses. I could have hidden it much longer if I wore loose dresses.

Quite late on my first because I had a strong core,it didn’t pop out until 28 weeks.
On no4 I had a bump when I was 5 mins pregnant (stopped sucking in my tummy).

Your baby is very happy and snug in there OP
I wish you well with the rest of your pregnancy

Hardly at all with my first. I remember some colleagues being shocked when I started maternity leave! I gained just over a stone, 8lb of which was baby.
Second was a different matter ...

Hello! I'm a FTM, 17 weeks tomorrow and I feel like over the past week I've started to show. My trousers feel tighter round my lower tummy for sure. But I'm worried that's weight from not doing as much cardio as I used to 🙈

I'm a slim woman but I feel like I'm on the earlier side from what I hear others say! But it varies SO much between us all.

My baby was kicking and barely showed. I went to my work after baby was born..and I’d worked till the last week with this woman passing me and chatting to me every day, and she asked whose baby it was . I was 2 stone lighter after having the baby than I was before I got pregnant.

Oh, my maternity clothes at 9 months were my husbands jeans ..he was slim, a physical job, and I wore my own jeans to go home from hospital

Just noticed the dates, sorry. This just appeared in my inbox. Anyway good luck

Never, no bump. Went to local shop I went to often with baby afterwards, shop owner commented that she didn’t know I was pregnant

Didn't really show till about 5 months especially with first. Always had a good core and flat tummy. My fibroid was sticking out but he wasnt!! Mind you I filled out after that and he was 10 lb ...don't forget good nourishment dear get ready to feed that baby...best of luck!

My first hardly showed at all until 30+ weeks.

I remember bumping into someone who I saw regularly and they hadn’t realised I was even pregnant and looked quite shocked when my bump suddenly appeared. When she was born, I very quickly slimmed back down.

Second time round I looked pregnant very quickly. & she is now 17 and I still carrying the extra weight around 🤣 one day I’ll loose the weight…..

I just had my third baby and didn't really show until around 24 weeks but you couldn't actually tell I was pregnant until around 30! By the time a lot of people noticed at work I was pretty much straight off in maternity leave! I pretty much just randomly popped over night one day.

Also had a flat stomach and visable abs from around 6 weeks postpartum and was actually upset when people told me they couldn't even tell I'd just had a baby 😂

My first was 24 - 26 weeks. My second is showed around 14 weeks.