when did you start to show?

kclouwhoo · May 2012

i will be 8 weeks tomorrow and im already showing i work with a girl who is y months and just started showing. also have a friend that didnt start showing until she was 8 months!

Jbosarge85 · May 2012

why would 36 be bigger then 40?

ngarden01 · May 2012

Sorry love, it's just a bloat.

JennV514 · May 2012

22 weeks.

Like PPs said, what you're experiencing is bloat. The bloat goes away- thank God!!!- and then there's the bump.

kbellock · May 2012

I will be 8 weeks tomorrow and I am showing. Everyone kept tryign to tell me it is bloat, and it definitely isn't. I'm normally very thin. I still have my flat tummy, but then a small rounded pooch at the bottom. Even when I weighted 15 pounds more than I do now and was PMSing, I never had a tummy like this. Even though the baby is very small right now, I know my uterus has grown considerably in my ultrasound I had this week, and I think your body adjusts accordingly.

jobiann · May 2012

Ambsies:

Unless this is your second baby: it's bloat, not a bump.

I started showing around 16-18 weeks when I was pregnant with DD (but it wasn't too noticeable to anyone but to anyone but me). I was really showing around 20-22w.

Check this out:

Your uterus is still really tiny and just barely above your pubic bone.

That being said, bloat is serious!! I was super bloated during my 1st tri this time. But it decreased around 10 weeks. But even though I'm a STM I still didn't start showing until a few weeks into 2nd tri.

Also, how far along is your first friend? You said "y" weeks.

I love you, you are always ready with this chart and I love it!!

LilBlkDress1 · May 2012

I started showing a little bit at 11-12 weeks, but I was really tiny to begin with so I think the baby just didn't have anywhere to hid. It was pretty small and easy to hide under clothes though until about week 16 or 17 and that's when I started seeing a big change.

BananaPancake · May 2012

I am 8w with twins, 4th pregnancy. It may be bloat, but it's a BIG bloat.

Megroons · May 2012

Ambsies:

Unless this is your second baby: it's bloat, not a bump.

I started showing around 16-18 weeks when I was pregnant with DD (but it wasn't too noticeable to anyone but to anyone but me). I was really showing around 20-22w.

Check this out:

Your uterus is still really tiny and just barely above your pubic bone.

That being said, bloat is serious!! I was super bloated during my 1st tri this time. But it decreased around 10 weeks. But even though I'm a STM I still didn't start showing until a few weeks into 2nd tri.

Also, how far along is your first friend? You said "y" weeks.

I was just about to jump in with the chart but knew you'd have it covered Wink OP...I'm 21 wks and just starting to show. It's definitely bloat

hmontty · May 2012

Don't freak out the morning you wake up and the bump is gone. Oh God! Where's my baby!

It's bloat.

I popped at 17 weeks with DD. I thought I was showing at 14 weeks, but then I realized it was bloat. There is a big difference -- you'll know it when it happens.

Strangers didn't notice until I was probably 22-25 weeks.

hmontty · May 2012

SmileyGirl18:
I am 14w2d, my ticker is off and I am normally 5'3", 105. I have a nice combo of small bump and a lot of bloat going on. My bloat never went down. If I wear a belly band, everyhing rounds out and looks like a bump, so I am just going with it. I figure the bloat is because of the baby, so I consider it showing

Yep, this was my strategy too from beginning of 2nd tri. LOL.

mben1119 · May 2012

kclouwhoo:
i will be 8 weeks tomorrow and im already showing

No, you're not.

Megroons · May 2012

mabenner1:

kclouwhoo:
i will be 8 weeks tomorrow and im already showing

No, you're not.

Yes

kclouwhoo · May 2012

Is there anything I can do to get rid of some of the bloat? The ladies I work with say I look like I'm about 3 1/2 months along

mandask4 · May 2012

Ambsies:
kbellock:
I will be 8 weeks tomorrow and I am showing. Everyone kept tryign to tell me it is bloat, and it definitely isn't. I'm normally very thin. I still have my flat tummy, but then a small rounded pooch at the bottom. Even when I weighted 15 pounds more than I do now and was PMSing, I never had a tummy like this. Even though the baby is very small right now, I know my uterus has grown considerably in my ultrasound I had this week, and I think your body adjusts accordingly.
Because it is bloat Your OB would more than likely agree. Your organs are pushed up a bit as your uterus grows, but not enough to make noticeable changes so early. Pregnancy bloat is a crazy thing, but I promise it will decrease and you will get a "real bump".
Check out this site: https://www.msichicago.org/whats-here/exhibits/you/the-exhibit/your-beginning/make-room-for-baby/interactive/
It's super cool and it really helped me understand what's goin' on in there.
This one is neat too: https://www.umm.edu/pregnancy/000088.htm#

thank-you for that, it helped

NicoleWI · May 2012

This topic always bugs me, as someone who looked PG and was in maternity clothes comparatively early in all three pregnancies! I don't care whether it's bloat or baby, if I look pregnant, I look pregnant! I never noticed any obvious change from bloat to baby bump (no disappearing "bloat" and then different bump). With the first baby I looked a little pregnant by 10 weeks and looked pregnant to others by about 12. Second baby, same thing but a little earlier. This time, I am almost 10 weeks and my clothes have gotten progressively tighter; I can't wear some of my pants and skirts. I will be into maternity soon. So I don't care what it is, I agree with whoever said they count bloat or baby as "showing," b/c it's evidence of pregnancy and hard to hide! I obviously look PG right now but am still trying to hide it at work. I already had someone ask when I was due (!) and have seen people looking at my belly lately.

Randa&Jerm · May 2012

NicoleWI:
This topic always bugs me, as someone who looked PG and was in maternity clothes comparatively early in all three pregnancies! I don't care whether it's bloat or baby, if I look pregnant, I look pregnant! I never noticed any obvious change from bloat to baby bump (no disappearing "bloat" and then different bump). With the first baby I looked a little pregnant by 10 weeks and looked pregnant to others by about 12. Second baby, same thing but a little earlier. This time, I am almost 10 weeks and my clothes have gotten progressively tighter; I can't wear some of my pants and skirts. I will be into maternity soon. So I don't care what it is, I agree with whoever said they count bloat or baby as "showing," b/c it's evidence of pregnancy and hard to hide! I obviously look PG right now but am still trying to hide it at work. I already had someone ask when I was due (!) and have seen people looking at my belly lately.

This is pretty much the same for me as well. This will be my 3rd baby and at 9 weeks DH was noticing me when I was just standing there. We haven't told a lot of people so I'm sure people are just thinking I'm putting on weight which is sort of annoying but whatev.

germswif E · May 2012

DD 14weeks

ShelbehhRawrr · May 2012

I think I started officially not looking fat, but pregnant around 19-24 weeks.

EEG08 · May 2012

I am 8 weeks and I can barely zip my pants let alone button them. I am having twins and I am a petite person. I know it isn't baby since they are about the size of a raspberry now. I also have a large frontal fibroid taking up space in there too. Either way, I can't wear a lot of things right now so to me it is all from being pregnant, bloat or not. Soon enough it will be a bonifide bump either way.

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