Will I have a baby belly?

[Tash*n*bub]

Hi there,

I am about a size 18 and have lost more weight during pregnancy than since i can care to remember lol!! i am fascinated how this works! I was a size 12 when I was 20 and fell pregnant with our first daughter, I am now 30 and onto fourth daughter and I didn't really start to show an obvious baby belly until I was around 34-36 weeks and still now at nearly 39 weeks, I can sometimes look not pregnant and it is really disappointing!! I love poking my pregnancy belly out there lol! My 3rd pregnancy was a posterior bub so my tummy was in some whacky shapes at times and this one seems to resemble that too. What I have noticed in my last 2 pregnancies is that I have a really tight full top part and under my belly button is all flab, I have heard people call it an apron of fat!! Which kind of fits but i don't like it!! I have many thin friends whom are pregnant and they have shown form about weeks 8 to 10 and just kept ballooning!! So I really think it is just your body type and shape and as someone previously stated probably height too!!

In any case, any pregnancy belly is gorgeous, and do you notice that when you are pregnant, everywhere you go there seems to be an abundance of pregnant women whereas before you wouldn't have seen others....I once counted 11 women in the local Woolworths (Small store) one Thursday evening!!

All the best

Tash

[Trillian]

I was as big as you are now with my last two pg's and I definitely had a baby belly!!! I was huge LOL. I haven't seen many women at all our size who don't end up with a baby belly. For a lot of women they just look a big podgy for up to the first half of their pg and then all of a sudden they pop out and look like they are pg.

[AliBaby]

I was a size 16 when pregnant and started to get a really noticable bump at around 20weeks and then it was a beautiful bump buy 27weeks.

[Daffodil Mumma]

It really depends on the person and how their body carries their baby.....
I was size 10-12 when I fell pregnant. My son was born 8pound 8ounce.....but I never got the belly was really looking forward to that cute bump....most people didnt realise I was even pregnant til the last few weeks...I didnt even buy maternity clothes!!