2nd time around moms, when did you start to show?

Julia-Henry

Hi! I'm visiting from 1st tri. I'm 12 weeks with #2 and have noticed my waist is getting thicker, but I can still hide it. I'm trying to figure out when it will be obvious (and when I will have to tell work etc). Can you help by telling me:

When did you start to show with #2?

ANd when did it become impossible to hide your pregnancy?

Thanks very much!

React's Girl

Hello and Congrats. 

I am a 3rd timer, but my oldest is 8, and my youngest was just a year. I wasn't showing at all until about last week, and then BAM!! I look like I am 6 mo. I feel huge andI am bloated on top of a bump so I think thats I am so so freakin big! 

Sassystace

I told work at 13 wks and thought they'd figure me out otherwise.  Co-worker friends told me they couldn't tell.  It depends really on what I wear but I'd say that at 15/16wks they'd guess.

mlf625

So far, I'm looking about the same as I did at this stage with #1. ?I can still hide my pregnancy easily.

babystella08

This time around I started to show around 16-17 weeks and had to go into maternity clothes. With my son I don't remember showing until between 21-22 weeks.

*megsy*

I just started really showing last week (to strangers)...I think coworkers would have noticed prior to that but probably not said anything in case I was just gaining weight today i got my first "when are you due?" so I guess it's official that I'm really showing!

Julia-Henry

Thanks so much for the answers! I'm feeling a little better about not telling for at least another month.

Mrs.LisaP

I feel like I started to show right away this time around (my 2nd) I had a bump at 9 weeks, and def. could not hide by 11-12 weeks.

gotchagomo

I started showingwith this, my second, at about 18 weeks. I showed with my first at around 22 weeks.

rnmommy07

It really depends on how you are built. I am short, and this is my 2nd. I could not hide it past 16 weeks this time, and was barely showing at 20 weeks last time.

flyer23

I was with friends in Vegas over the weekend and wore a tight shirt one day that I thought TOTALLY showed off my baby bump. But multiple friends (completely unprompted) said, "You don't even look like you're pregnant!" In looser shirts, it's even less obvious. I'm just now starting to move into maternity bottoms (they're still a bit loose), and maternity tops are still WAY too big.

Then again, I didn't really show with DD until pretty late. I had a conference for work at 26 weeks, meeting with a bunch of people who I knew from pre-pregnancy but who didn't know I was pregnant, and it took some of them DAYS to figure it out. One guy asked why I wasn't out skiing (the trip was at a ski resort) and I was like, "Uhhh, because I'm 6 months pregnant?" and he couldn't believe it.

I guess I always look like I'm pregnant