Your pregnancy body....love it or hate it?

[Chelle1986]

Now I'm not the slimest person in the world and have hated my body for as long as I can remember! But over the last week or so I'm kinda seeing a difference in opinion....

I'm now 29 weeks and have a very sizeable bumpage! However I think this is the happiest I have been about my body for years!! The growing bump has tightened all the wobbly bits on my hips and belly and I can actually tolerate looking at myself in the mirror for longer than 5 seconds....weird huh....! I've managed to actually lose weight so far and haven't put any on - which is an added bonus. Guess this is fine as long as baby is healthy - which he is!

Is it the hormones doing funny things to me do you reckon - or has anyone else found this?

I know I still have a good couple of months to go, but trying to savour this happiness while I still have it!!

C.xx

Am 36 wks now and do like mine, I find myself wearing some things I wouldn't always wear non-pregnant cause I have a very rounded, firm looking bump.

I feel like my face has got less definition though, even though I haven't put on weight other than around my belly. I feel like I look huge in photos. I've never liked pictures though!

Hate it. I can live with the big belly but my boobs have changed beyond all recognition and I hate that. They don't feel like mine anymore. In fact, in general I feel a bit like just the incubation tank for a very important person.

I'm nearly 21 weeks and althought the bump is growing, the boobs have remained a B-cup which is a shame! Cannot believe they are not getting bigger!

I am not sure how I feel at the moment - I look a bit whale-like around the middle and feel like a weeble. However, I really don't care that much about my appearance right now. That's quite unusual for me.

I loved my body after about 6 months (I looked full-term by then) because as you say, it stretches out the fat flabby bits, and it's a lovely, exciting shape to be! I kept on taking nekkid photos of myself in the mirror.

But this time round, I'm 15 weeks and so bloated. I look about 5 months because I'm so blown up with wind, and the fat (and organs, I suppose) have been shoved up. The baby's still tiny at right at the bottom, so I feel like a fraud! I'm looking forward to getting larger, because I'll know my bump's mostly baby, and maybe the gas will go?

I did hate the way my face puffed out at the end, though I may have had a slight touch of pre-eclampsia right at the end, which would account for that. I look moon-faced in photos from then.

Nope not liking mine, I was very happy with my pre pregnancy shape. I had abs, a waist and nice boobs.

Can't wait for it all to be over.

Hate it, but not because of how I look but because my body generally falls apart during pregnancy, I look forward to being myself again soon.

I like that I don't have to worry about holding my stomach in any more....

but not liking the fact that when I take my bra off, my ample bosoms sit whale like on top of the bump!

Happy days!

destest would have been a better word!

Love it, love it, love it.

Being pregnant is the only time I get a proper healthy glow to my skin (Most of the time I look rather anaemic). My hair looks good, my boobs look good, my legs look slim in comparison to my bump. I love being pregnant and I would love to have a farm of children just so I can be pregnant more.

detest oops

29 weeks for me.
There are bits I like (my bump, which is nice and firm) and bits I absolutely hate. I have cellulite on my legs, which I've never had before, and my former waist has disappeared. My boobs are ma-hoosive. Worst of all, my thighs have gone all soft and have started to rub together at the top! Feeling very unattractive. Luckily I have no stretch marks and my skin's remained clear throughout.

Like the person who posted earlier, I like my pregnancy body a hell of a lot more than like my immediately post-pregnancy body! Last time I was like a deflated balloon, covered in livid stretchmarks and not, somehow, miraculously fitting back in my size 12s. I'm mentally prepared this time.

I love my preggers body. I'm just back from five days in Santorini where I wore a bikini by the pool (I'm 24 weeks, first pregnancy) - all the other skinny minnies looked so silly - all that effort to look so skinny minnie and there was I growing an amazing baby! It felt so cool. I've never been 100% happy with my body but as I got to my 30s I have accepted it and understand now that it is me, and I dress better for it rather than trying to wear silly clothes a magazine tells me to. But preggers it makes so much sense - this is what it was designed to do!

I'm 35 weeks pregnant and loving my pregnant body, don't get me wrong, it's taken a lot of getting used to, I lost ovefr 4 stone before falling pregnant and have put some of that back on, but it's a healthy expected weight gain. Boobs have grown beyond recognition, but it's all for a reason, so I've gotten used to it. My partner has helped loads as he says on a regular basis that he's never seen me so beautiful.

I loved my pregnant body and actually lost fat off it all over due to healthier diet / no wine! It went tight and firm and although my bump was ridiculously enormous, everything else slimmed right down. I weighed less after I had both my boys than I had done at conception.

The only thing i hated was the blue veins that appeared on my decolletage area and boobs. My DP called me Gorgonzola Tits, which was nice.