i'm sure this has been asked before....

jeannaqueena · October 2009

but I haven't seen it asked in the past week.

With twins, when do you start showing? I am so bloated and no pants feel good against my stomach, but I know 9 weeks seems too early for maternity pants and I don't love the bellaband.

Do you feel them kick/flutter about the same time as a singleton? I am getting the babycenter emails weekly. Is there any emails that send week by week for twins?

TIA!!!

atc282 · October 2009

I started showing (to the public's eye) not until about 16+ weeks or so. Before that, I just felt bloated/looked bloated. I had to live in stretchy yoga pants (I still do!).

As for kicking/fluttering, my peri said it's diff. for everyone. Since this is my first pg, he said I'd typically feel the flutters around 20 wks. I felt my first flutters at 17.5 wks. Kicks/consistent movement didn't happen till the early 20s weeks or so.

I wish there was an email for multiples! I'm attaching to you the link someone on here gave me for twin weight gains by gestational age that you can follow throughout your pg at least...

https://www.twinstuff.com/twinweights.htm

HTH

Nikki1007 · October 2009

I was in maternity pants at 6 weeks and am showing enough now that a few people have asked coworker if I am pregnant.

mdearrington · October 2009

I wore my regular jeans with a hair pony tail holder looping my jeans together. It really works! at about 16 weeks I popped. I started wearing bella band with jeans un buttoned and 18weeks I started wearing Bella band, un buttoned pants and un zipped a little bit. I plan on buying Maternity pants pretty soon.

Hang in there!

jeannaqueena · October 2009

atc282:
I started showing (to the public's eye) not until about 16+ weeks or so. Before that, I just felt bloated/looked bloated. I had to live in stretchy yoga pants (I still do!).
As for kicking/fluttering, my peri said it's diff. for everyone. Since this is my first pg, he said I'd typically feel the flutters around 20 wks. I felt my first flutters at 17.5 wks. Kicks/consistent movement didn't happen till the early 20s weeks or so.
I wish there was an email for multiples! I'm attaching to you the link someone on here gave me for twin weight gains by gestational age that you can follow throughout your pg at least...
https://www.twinstuff.com/twinweights.htm
HTH

thanks for the link, I saved it in my blog so i can go back to it again!

Rinnie · October 2009

It really depends on your body type.

I am a big girl (nice way for me to say overweight) and with my DD when I would tell people I was pregant you couldn't tell at all. Even when I delivered at 38 weeks.

With the boys I did end up showing, but closer to 30 weeks.

We didn't tell anyone I was pregnant with the boys until after 20 weeks and you couldn't tell unless you knew at that point.

I also thought that I would feel the babies sooner then I did with my DD. Because I had been pregnant before and knew what to look for/feel for and because they were twins.

To be honest it was right about 17 weeks for both pregnancies for me.

Temp159135562506975 · October 2009

i was super bloated right away with the twins so i was in maternity pants almost right away - b/c i wasn't going to buy a fatter size regular wardrobe just for a few weeks

by the time the bloat was gone- i was truly showing.... so it seemed like i looked pregnant from about 8 weeks on.

i felt the first movement at the same time with my singleton as i did with the twins - both at 15 weeks.

kimarino13 · October 2009

I was also bloated right away from the estrace and 2cc of PIO, and found the Bella Band to be uncomfortable. I think I started wearing maternity pants at like week 7, even though they were way too big. They were still more comfortable than the Bella Band, though.

I started really showing around week 19. I could have hidden it before then.

I started feeling flutters at the end of week 15, and started feeling kicks at week 21.

cholzer · October 2009

At 9 weeks I couldn't wear my pants either. I was sick anyway and wearing pants that were tight on my stomach made me feel worse. I just moved up a few pants sizes.

As far as kicks, I felt the first flutter at 15 weeks and then didn't feel it again for a week and then it was very sparatic (sp?) for the next few weeks.

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