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When did you start showing?

naki44naki44 member
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This is my first pregnancy, and as you can imagine I am so excited about seeing my growing belly. I'm 5'4 with pre-pregnancy weight of 121. I'm almost 10 weeks now and I haven't had much of an appetite because of the morning sickness and nausaea. I do see a belly there but I'm told it's water retention. However, when I am lucky to keep down a healthy meal, the belly does pop out quite nicely for a bit and that makes me happy. I just sit there and stare at it all day :) 

When did you finally pop? And did it happen literally overnight? I'm told thinner women tend to show quickly. When I'm out I barely show and I can still fit into my size 4 jeans. However, when I wear a tight top, I see a small belly as I said and I'm thrilled. 
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Re: When did you start showing?

  • harpseal135harpseal135 member
    At 10 weeks your baby is just about the size of a strawberry.  You are bloated when you are "showing." A strawberry will not make your belly pop - bloat will.  

    When I was preg with DD I was 5'11 and 145 pre prepregnancy.  I did not show until 27 weeks. Yes, 27 weeks.  It was a sudden pop.  
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  • jrouge12jrouge12 member
    It is water retention. Sorry. I know how exciting it is and how much you want a bump. At this stage your uterus is still behind your pubic bone, so it just can't be a bunp. With my first, I didn't have a bump until past 22 weeks, and it was super easy to hide. This pregnancy was sooner but my ab muscles were destroyed by my first kid. 😅
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  • meggymemeggyme member
    16 weeks with my first, and even then it was only obvious to my husband and I.
    DD1: June '16 DD2: March ‘19 :::: Married since 2011 :::: USN Wife ::::
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  • rgb28rgb28 member
    My first pregnancy and I noticed my belly at around 12 weeks.  I am now 15 weeks and I  am definitely showing with a little baby bump that others are noticing too. Everyone is different.  
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  • knottie708b919b71af5d74knottie708b919b71af5d74 member
    At 12 weeks I started showing. No one else can tell. It a small rounding of my belly :)
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  • harpseal135harpseal135 member
    edited May 2020
    knottie708b919b71af5d74 said:
    At 12 weeks I started showing. No one else can tell. It a small rounding of my belly :)
    @knottie708b919b71af5d74
    That is improbably still bloat! Something the size of a plum is not going to cause you to show. Your fundus (the upper end of the uterus) is just above the top of the symphysis where the pubic bones join together.  Not even in the abdomen area yet.  
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  • harpseal135harpseal135 member
    jennifer_louise said:
    harpseal135 said:
    knottie708b919b71af5d74 said:
    At 12 weeks I started showing. No one else can tell. It a small rounding of my belly :)
    @knottie708b919b71af5d74
    That is improbably still bloat! Something the size of a plum is not going to cause you to show. Your fundus (the upper end of the uterus) is just above the top of the symphysis where the pubic bones join together.  Not even in the abdomen area yet.  
    I don't usually speak up on here, but I'm a bit tired of this. Whether it's bloat, water retention, or an expanding uterus, who cares. Every body (and every pregnant body) is different. We don't need to say "baby is too small to show yet" to make somebody feel bad about what she's seeing in the mirror.

    Let's. Just. Not. 
    @jennifer_louise  So you are tired of reading facts?  It's not trying to make someone feel bad, it's a realistic truth of what is happening to your body during a pregnancy.  Your body may be expanding but when obvious it is not a baby causing the "showing," there are ways to help with bloating, so yes its informative so the poster can increase fiber, drink more fluids walk a little more to ease some of the bloating symptoms 

    Ok, let's let someone think that they are truly showing and when the bloat goes away and there is no bump anymore it will be, "Oh my goodness where did my bump go!"  If they understand its bloat then it makes more sense.  

    If it makes you to feel better to live in an imaginary world, awesome!  Bloat is not showing, nor will it ever be.  Because someone at 5, 9, 10 weeks is never "showing."  
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  • jennifer_louisejennifer_louise member
    Um, the quoted response was at 12 weeks. You said yourself baby was the size of a plum (with the ute presumably even bigger). With some body types, that could absolutely show, especially if it wasn't her first pregnancy, with multiples, a very slender tummy, etc. 
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