Moms with DS; expecting DD

thomas2013

I am carrying 100% different this time. With DS it was all bump and I gained some in my arms. With DD I am carrying REALLY wide. I have gained extra weight on my sides like love handles but they wrap into my bump. My boobs have not gotten any bigger thank god. It just seems like my bump goes from hip to hip. Also my bump seems to get harder and rounder at night. I lost weight in the beginning of my pregnancy and I have only gained about 5 pounds. Has anyone noticed a huge difference between pregnancies? And what about weight gain?

I also don?t know how to add a bump pic. Can someone help?

 

MommaA117

This is my first pregnancy but a lot like you have explained. My bump is wide and I have side and love handle fat. I lost at first and now have gained very little. As far as food it's sugar, sugar and no interest in salty at all.

thomas2013

And your expecting a DD too! I think it's true about how girls carry. My taste changes with the time LOL

Michekke

Everything you posted could be true about me too!!! I have 3 boys and this is my first girl! This pregnancy is NOTHING like my other 3! Def am wider and with my boys i was all belly! And So far I have lost weight with this one not gained any. My others i lost weight but i had already gained it back by now. Also, I have had one issue after another with her. Nothing serious, but just little things that i never had with my boys!!!! My husband asked me the other night if we would have had a girl first if we would have had anymore and i was like OF COURSE but holy cow as this pregnancy progresses im not so sure lol my boys were so EASY and this pregnancy is by far the worse one lol Still love being preggers though even with all the crzy stuff going on and totally feeling way round lol!

kattyleigh

I'm not carrying a DD this time but I have a daughter already and am having a son.  I am 100% carrying different.  I am carrying this boy so low.  My daugher was way up in my ribs the entire time and I definitely gained weight wider and all over my body this time. 

ShangriLaRose

I have a DS,and am now awaiting a DD... in looking at a few of my pics from being pregnant w/ DD, I can't see much of a difference in how I'm carrying (higher/lower), but everyone else says I'm carrying a little higher, and I do have a little bit of a love-handle thing going on, but it isn't too bad.  But other than that, the differences are crazy. This time, my breasts have definitely gotten a lot bigger, where they never did w/ DS. I had really icky morning sickness, and w/ DS, I'd only get a small bit of nausea, but it would pass quickly. Cravings this time definitely lean toward the sweets and such, and I'm not a big sweets eater normally, and I didn't crave sweets w/ DS at all. My cravings are constantly changing, and w/ DS, I craved a few specific things throughout the whole pregnancy. As far as weight, at my last appointment on the 1st of Feb, I had only gained 4 lbs, since I lost a little in the 1st Tri. (I don't own a home-scale, so I don't know what I've gained since then, but I"m sure I've gained at least another couple of pounds.) I'm bigger sooner, but that's really common for 2nd + pregnancies. I haven't really gained any extra weight anywhere else that I've noticed, other than boobs and belly."

DD has been growing about a week ahead from the get-go, whereas DS grew a little slower, but both are healthy. I have a feeling she'll start slowing down soon. I only say that because small-ish babies run in both of our families, so if she comes out to be over 7 lbs, I have no idea where she'd get it from! (I have another u/s at the end of March, so I guess we'll find out.)  Schedule wise, she seems to be active at the same times DS was... when I'm still, and at night... but that's not really a big deal, or something that I hear will differ because of gender, specifically.

mari_gold

I'm definitely carrying differently this time -- she's so much higher than DS ever was. Seriously, I don't think he even ever dropped because he was already at the bottom of my pelvis, and she's right by my ribs. It's a totally different experience.

MrsHadley

I don't think I look much different from the boys.  I do have a horrible ance/rash thing on my face that I didn't have with either boy, but I had things with each of them that I don't have this time.  I'm taking a picture on Tuesday that will be a direct comparison of all three at 27 weeks and will post it then.

luvbeingmom

i had 2 sons first, and with each of them, i gained 30lbs total, and carried them like basketballs up front.

dd1 i gained 60 freaking pounds and was just fat and tubby until the last two months when i finally rounded out, but she was really high. so high in fact that when i went in for my scheduled c section the doc had to cut about an inch above my original c section scar to get her out. 

this is #4, and it feels just like my sons pregnancies... turns out, it's a girl! i SWORE this one was going to be a boy based on the morning sickness, i lost weight. just completely opposite from my dd.

but right now, i'm carrying low and more round in the front again... so either the gender really does have nothing to do with how you carry, or this is actually a boy and we'll find that out on birthday! lol

 

Bran_ham

With DS I carried low and wide. With this pg ( we are fairly certain it is a girl) it's high and protrudes a lot more, like a basketball. With DS it was hard to tell from the side I was pg. I think my boobs have grown bigger with this pg too, I hardly noticed a change with DS.

socalbaby

i am carrying different this time as well.  with ds i had such a cute bump.  it was like a basketball, no love handles, and i carried low.  with this pregnancy i am carrying really high, wide, and i have really ugly love handles .  my bump is not cute at all.  i've gained about the same amount of weight with each pregnancy but this time i haven't been working out because i was so sick.  i worked out a lot when i was pg with ds.