Help me - I'm an elephant!!

[HypotheticalMummy]

I need some help, guidance and/or reassurance! I am currently 5 weeks pregnant (having only discovered my pregnancy a week ago!) and my stomach is rounded, hard and large. My work colleagues (who immediately knew the truth despite my protestations) tell me I look about 20 weeks pregnant. Every where I look I am told that I'm not really showing but that instead its either gas or water retention but I am finding this explanations increasingly difficult to believe! I have been this size for 4 days now. I am not constipated and I urinate more often than anyone would like.

Help me please. I am worried that something is really wrong, or that alternatively I am going to give birth to the incredible hulk!

Are you sure that your dates are right?

If you are really concerned, speak to your midwife.

If it's any consolation, I put on 4 stone during my first pregnancy. I was mahooosive. Thankfully it all came off, and a bit more which was a bonus.

I was massively bloated from about week 6 to week 13 or 14. I had a really large, round stomach and it was very uncomfortable indeed. I wasn't constipated, just full of air. Oh, it was horrible looking back. I was so pleased when the first trimester ended!