Start showing ?

Kjg1313 · August 2013

I'm 7w1d with twins and was wondering when everyone started really showing not gas or bloat. I can't wait to start showing, time until these first 12w is over is passing so slowly

CaliCarly77 · August 2013

Um, like at week 4. I guess I should have known something was up.

TheDairyQueenx3 · August 2013

I started to show last week (21 weeks) this is my second pregnancy. I can still wear my regular cloths for the most part. I'm fairly thin (105 pound pre pregnacy) but I'm a runner and my ab muscles were pretty tight so they held back my bump a little longer I'm only 5" 5 so and because this was not my first go around I figured I would show sooner but that's when I looked pregnant.

daisy19782011 · August 2013

I felt like I was showing as soon as I knew...definitley by like week 10 I had a bump. I am a little different in that this is closely following a pregnancy where I had a loss at 20 weeks and was showing. I am not sure if my belly just popped back out b/c it was a 2nd pregnancy, but I have been big the whole time!

CaliCarly77 · August 2013

mellissalynay90 said:

I started to show last week (21 weeks) this is my second pregnancy. I can still wear my regular cloths for the most part. I'm fairly thin (105 pound pre pregnacy) but I'm a runner and my ab muscles were pretty tight so they held back my bump a little longer I'm only 5" 5 so and because this was not my first go around I figured I would show sooner but that's when I looked pregnant.

Funny - I am about the same height, and have been an avid runner for 8 years, even ran a marathon just weeks before getting pregnant, and imo that was why I started showing so soon, since I have always had a flat tummy. Its funny how it worked differently for both of us. There is no way I can wear my regular clothing - and haven't for weeks - my rib cage immediately expanded and my boobs went from a 30/32C to a 36/38DD almost immediately. I have only gained about 13 lbs though - I guess all in tummy and boob.

spin25 · August 2013

Strangers just started commenting in the last week. Other people who know me but hadn't been told yet were looking at my stomach weird around 14-15 weeks. My mom thought I looked pregnant without a doubt when she saw me at 12 weeks. It's hard to say when bloat turned into bump.

PinkinProvence · August 2013

I didn't start showing and was wearing regular clothes until 17 weeks. But between 17 weeks and 21 weeks, I am really showing - it seems I look bigger everyday!

carrotcake06 · August 2013

Amylou333 said:
I couldn't button my jeans at all from 8 weeks- but didn't have a 'bump' till 12wks.
I didn't start getting comments from strangers till 18w when it was REALLY unmistakeable!

Pretty much this exactly. I could hide it all of first tri and didnt really look pg until close to 20w. Then I got huge.

JuliaAndPete · August 2013

Could not wear regular clothes at week 6. Had to buy maternity clothes. At 11 weeks now and family notices clearly but I think strangers are being polite. Other pregnant women definitely stare and smile though. Is that a thing? I didn't know. The girls at my hair salon are like "you're glowing!" Hahaha.

hootie123 · August 2013

I started wearing maternity pants around 12 weeks or so. I'm now 16 weeks and only one person so far has told me that "I'm showing". In just the past few days I've noticed a bit of growth in my bump though. I think the next few weeks I'm really going to start looking pregnant.

raraavis28 · August 2013

I started wearing a belly band, and was "showing" according to family and friends, around 14 wks....though at the same time I was at a conference with this woman who wouldn't stop conmenting on how skinny I was for how much I was eating....and when I told her I was pregnant with twins she insisted I didn't look pregnant (she was weird). Anyway, I definitely had a bump and needed maternity pants by 16/17 weeks, ans after 18 weeks people wouldn't stop telling me how big my belly was getting. :P

jezebel57 · August 2013

probably around 13 weeks developed an actual "bump" instead of looking fat. it's still not perfectly round and could look like i have a beer belly if someone doesn't know me. i'm now 16 weeks and it just keeps getting bigger, not rounder.

Brummy14 · August 2013

I started showing around 12-13 weeks, noticeably. I'm very athletic, so I was 125lbs/5'6' and it didn't take much for the additional weight around the midsection to draw attention. Coworkers and people who see me regularly started asking right around that time (which seems SO early. Lol). That was one of the major reasons we decided to announce on FB right after our NT scan -- if people were already asking, God knows how many had been silently suspecting.

eandk18 · August 2013

Needed maternity pants at about 14-15 weeks....didn't start really showing until almost 20 weeks. Then things took off from there!

lilbit326 · August 2013

I'm 14 weeks w twins and I have random ppl guess that I'm 5 months! I'm also only 5'0 and was 112lbs before.

TheDairyQueenx3 · August 2013

CaliCarly77 said:

mellissalynay90 said:

I started to show last week (21 weeks) this is my second pregnancy. I can still wear my regular cloths for the most part. I'm fairly thin (105 pound pre pregnacy) but I'm a runner and my ab muscles were pretty tight so they held back my bump a little longer I'm only 5" 5 so and because this was not my first go around I figured I would show sooner but that's when I looked pregnant.

Funny - I am about the same height, and have been an avid runner for 8 years, even ran a marathon just weeks before getting pregnant, and imo that was why I started showing so soon, since I have always had a flat tummy. Its funny how it worked differently for both of us. There is no way I can wear my regular clothing - and haven't for weeks - my rib cage immediately expanded and my boobs went from a 30/32C to a 36/38DD almost immediately. I have only gained about 13 lbs though - I guess all in tummy and boob.

I had morning sickness sssooo badly so it took forever for me to gain any weight. I showed quicker with my first baby but my uterus is tilted back toward my spine so it took forever for me to show. I think last week or the week before on the MoM update I posted my bump pic its very different from this week (i think) haha but at least you can tell i have something going on. My boobs however they went from not much to huge. I think if it weren't for the position of my uterus though I would have shown sooner. This week though I can tell things are changing because Im having a harder time breathing lol! But it is funny how each woman carries so differently.

Kjg1313 · August 2013

Thanks everyone for your comments can't wait to get an actual bump instead of just looking like I'm gained some weight thanks again and hope you all have healthy pregnancies

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