Baby bump already?

k8jewell

I have always been slender with a bit of a belly roll. I am only 8 weeks and I look like I am showing already! Some people have said " awe look at your little baby bump" and others have said I am crazy and it's all in my head. I know it is not usual to show until around 15 weeks+. Does anyone else feel like this or do I just have an oversized fat roll?

SallySunrise

jessuhmarie:

It's probably bloat. Your uterus isn't high enough for it to be anything but tummy until around 12-13 weeks (especially if it's your first child)

This.

First trimester bloat is unreal, and it's very likely that you do have  a "bump," but it's more bloat than baby until at least 12 weeks when your ute grows above your pelvic bone. 

MWoodside

jessuhmarie:

It's probably bloat. Your uterus isn't high enough for it to be anything but tummy until around 12-13 weeks (especially if it's your first child)

Yep.  You can tell if it's bloat or a real bump of any kind by checking it out first thing in the morning before you eat.

090106

You can start 'showing' early but it may not be due to the baby. I started really showing around 9 week with my twins but then again, I was having twins and growing at twice the normal rate. Heck, I delivered at 36 weeks and was measuring 53 weeks.

I am told with 2nd pregnancies, you may tend to show ealier as well. I feel like I have a bump but I know it's just bloat and not the actual baby yet.

 

aspensonj

k8jewell:

I have always been slender with a bit of a belly roll. I am only 8 weeks and I look like I am showing already! Some people have said " awe look at your little baby bump" and others have said I am crazy and it's all in my head. I know it is not usual to show until around 15 weeks+. Does anyone else feel like this or do I just have an oversized fat roll?

 

THIS!  I'm only 6 weeks and my fat roll has seemed to be extremely oversized the past few days.    

Mee83shell

definitely bloat

kellbelle618

I agree with PPs it is bloat. Your uterus doesn't move above your pelvic bone until 12ish weeks and it isn't to your belly button until 20 weeks, especially as a FTM. That being said, I am a FTM who did show very early (not at 8 weeks though just bloating then), but I think that has more to do with the fact that I have been pregnant 5 times in a 1.5 years.

ellajune2012

MWoodside:

jessuhmarie:

It's probably bloat. Your uterus isn't high enough for it to be anything but tummy until around 12-13 weeks (especially if it's your first child)

Yep.  You can tell if it's bloat or a real bump of any kind by checking it out first thing in the morning before you eat.

really? cause i have my 'bump' first thing in the morning too and i'm pretty sure it's just bloat. (unless i'm having twins... i kind of hope not though)

mrsluckyjune

When I asked a question like this everyone was like "it's just bloat"! Well I'm the one who will be disagreeing. However, I am having twins. This is my first pregnancy and at 6 weeks none of my pants fit! When I would wear them it hurt so bad (the zipper and button were left undone because they would not go up). At 7 weeks I stopped wearing pants other than one pair of adidas wind pants. At 8 I bought a pair of maternity pants. I was mainly a size 4/6 (mostly 6) then skipped 7 and straight into a 9 and now I borrowed a bigger size from a friend so I could do the hairband thing along with my maternity pants. Now my size 6 will not go over my thighs and my 9's wont go past my booty. When I spoke with my mother she said she was in maternity clothes at 8 weeks. Everyone is different. And my bump hasn't gone away since week 6. It was much smaller at week 6 but there's no denying it now. It also was there no matter what time of day it was.

jdsummerbaby

I'm only 4 weeks and the bloating is out of control makes my tummy look bigger maybe thats why? the bloating.