I'm Kellie and I'm living in Gulfport because my husband is in the Navy Seabee's. I have a lot of questions about pregnancy and I feel that I'm most comfortable putting my questions and concerns in a small board like this one. I look forward to sharing my journey with you girls, and hearing about yours as well.
Since my hormones, are out of whack, I get to over thinking about things. Such as, my belly. I have always been small and petite but never in shape. My "inner tube" around my mid section has always been a sore spot on my body. Since finding I'm pregnant I feel more bloated than usual! (I'm sure thats normal.) When I look at "skinny" girls at 5 weeks, they have a little, baby belly. When will my belly feel pregnant? Will I always have this mushy belly until middle of my second trimester? I don't want people who know I have been TTC, to know I'm pregnant by looking at my chub. I'm being emotional and unreasonable yes, I would like to hear from others who can give me a little bit of insight.
Again, I look forward to being on this site along with you.
Take care,
Kellie
Re: I'm new
I found this.
"I just spoke with my girlfriend last night, who had twins about a year ago, and we were talking about stretch marks. She said whatever you do don't use cocoa butter, I said that I don't but why not? She said when she was pg she had to go to a fetal heart specialist b/c one of her babies was having heart problems, the doc asked her if she was using cocoa butter and she said yes, I slather it on every day. He said to stop immediately b/c it contains caffeine and that is being taken in by the baby causing him to have a rapid heart. I had never heard this before, so I just wanted to spread the word in case anyboy might be sensitive to this kind of thing. Take care everybody! "
I used something with Shea Butter and almond oil. BUT stretch marks are somewhat genetic - so if you can ask your mom. The moisturizing helps more with the stretching and the itching!
Oh and I started wearing maternity clothes about 20 weeks - but I had the Bella band in full force from about week 17!
Suggestion: make each question a separate post, you might get more feed back that way!
I use this from earth mama angel baby and it works WONDERFUL!
I have (still do!) a fluffy stomach when I was preg with my DS. I started to 'show' around 16 weekish but I think it was b/c I was already poochy in the stomach. I popped at around 20ish weeks.
Good luck with everything and congratulations!!