I know you get bigger faster with #2 but....!

[Sorka]

I am pregnant with Bubs no.4 at the moment and feeling huuuuge!

I kept pictures and measurements of my waist every month throughout my other pregnancies and they were all roughly the same (within a cm or two). This time I am measuring at what I did with 3-4 months with the others and Im only 6.5 weeks!!! I'm concerend that it might be twins (not as much as my husband though!). I dont think I have actually put on that much weight - just a whole lot bigger around the belly

Any ideas?any thing else that might be causing this? It just seems odd to be almost the same with three and then massive this time!

Thanks

[MantaRay]

With DS2, I had people telling me I was pg before I even knew I was. I was showing that much even before I was 4 weeks pg! And I was in maternity clothes by 6 or 7 weeks. We didn't really have the option of telling before 12 weeks LOL - I ended up having to tell people who had known before I did! DS2 was 4 weeks early, but I don't think I got much bigger at the end than I as with DS1 if at all. You get bigger quicker but it settles down at some point.

[~Saram~]

I always joked that #2 picked up where I left off with #1 as far as stretchmarks and varicose veins and all that horrible stuff went. As for getting bigger - I was "showing" at 9wks - as in people were jokingly asking if I was pg not knowing that I actually was. However I stayed smaller overall in the belly than with #1 so it must have evened out somewhere

[AndiE]

Good thread, because I'd been wondering the same thing!

This pg my trousers started feeling a bit too snug at 9 weeks and my usual tops/shirts started sitting tighter across my tummy at about the same time. I started wearing maternity clothes at 11 weeks - felt weird buying winter maternity clothes before the end of first trimester, but sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do!

With DS, I didn't even need maternity clothes until approx 16 weeks!

[NaeNae]

Whilst my belly is starting to sprout nicely, I am smaller this time then I was last time. I am about the same size now at 16 weeks as I was at 13 weeks with my last.