Hey due date buddy! Totally know what you mean. I have had a little 'gut' for a few weeks but today was the first time I have been told I 'look pregnant'. Apart from that I have been feeling so utterly normal that I start to question myself. Sometimes I lie really still and mentally 'listen' in to my belly to see if I can sense something or feel movement but anything that I think I do feel is not really clear or obvious and I end up thinking 'it could just be gas'!
Our time will come my friend... bring on the 20 wk scan!
Im 19 weeks tomorrow with my 1st and still hardly showing...family and friends can tell im pg only bcaus they knew what I looked like before, strangers always give me strange looks when I tell them im 19 weeks! And only in the last week have I been sure the kicks are baby and not gas..hehe! But its often I forget there's a little person in there so don't be worried!! I've been told by many friends to enjoy this time while we can still tie our own shoes!
24w pg and I was told I was still in the "fat" stage - ie no bump!
6-7m pg and people asked why I was getting ready to leave work, had I been made redundant?
30w pg I was told off by a midwife for not being big enough!
9m 1w pg and I was FINALLY asked by a stranger when the baby was coming! I stupidly said "last weekend" and the woman flipped, asking me to leave the shop.
The plus sides were I saved a fortune on maternity clothes and looked fantastic. The down sides were I didn't get any of the special pregnancy treatment!
I think it's normal to not have a huge bump - and it is normal to have one. Whichever one you have, someone will tell you this is a problem. Just don't try to do a sit-up type leap off the bed at 8m pg because you're still quite trim. That isn't comfortable at all.
thanks everyone, you have put my mind at ease abit more!
I think I am just in limbo atm, with Christmas coming etc
We have another appt on the 30th & then 20wk scan on 2nd Jan - so hopefully it feels more real by then!
katabelleh - hey buddy - sounds like we are going thru alot of the same things hun! HUGS
Mrs BB, I am only a week less than you and I still dont feel or look pregnant either! I have put on about 5 kilos, mostly in my boobs I think!, but if you didnt know me you wouldn't know that anything has changed. I worry sometimes too, but I'm assured that this is normal, in fact its great and we really shouldn't be complaining! I have my next scan on the 5th Jan - can' wait for that. It'll just really help confirm that there is a little critter in there after all!
Mrs BB.... I completely feel the same. ALthough I am probably just really stupid, because I am well adn truly showing (even being a big person... I have ballooned) and I throw up daily.... but still my brain doesn't like to link those occurances to a baby.
Stupid brain.
I'm glad I'm not the only one not feeling very pregnant.
I am going to ask my middies for a doppler scan this thursday just so I can hear that there really is a baby in there.... I hate not having had any scans since 8 weeks
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