Im 17 weeks, but my stomach is massive

[CocoPop]

:PI've been tod by a few people now that my stomach is way bigger then it should be. I have friends who are 6 montyhs and they have a flatter stomach then i. My muma nd granma say they didntlook like this until they were about 6 months. And this is my first baby. Anyonwe else in that situation at all ?

[Indadhanu]

Don't stress, everyone's belly is different! I got those comments, but just smilied cos I was happy with my big round belly...
BTW take a look at my belly shots and I hope you'll feel MUCH better!!!!!!!!

My belly shots

[CocoPop]

Thanks. I do love the big belly, was just wondering if it was normal. :0)
Tahnks and great belly shots..

Good luck
xo

[didispunk]

I have a massive belly at 16 weeks.. My doc said everyone grows and gets a belly different then others...


Dont worry.. I am sure all is fine.

[belfie]

I'm the same, PG with my first and showing waaay early! I even had some friends (at 13 weeks) say, wow, you're so big. When I was explaining that I'd been on reduced activity (no exercise allowed at all) for 6 weeks, one said... oh it's all just fat then!!! Grrrrrrr

I also had a taxi driver (admittedly, probably a fairly ignorant "guesser") at 8 weeks say, Oh so you're pregnant... how far along? 6 months then? I nearly kacked myself laughing (on the inside) then said politely, oh a bit less than that. I didn't have the heart to tell him I was only 8 weeks! I'm in mat. clothes already too (and have been for a while). I must admit, I felt like a real fraud early on, but I'm starting to enjoy it a bit more now. One of my sisters didn't show at all until after 20 weeks with her second! So go figure hey!

I also found it aggravating that I work with a tall slender skinny bean who's PG and looked unfairly elegant for most of her PG! If you look up Pregnancy Calendar on google you'll find some belly "models" with a HUGE range of belly sizes at each week. I've looked there occasionally and it made me feels heaps better

to all

[CocoPop]

Oh wow, yeah i know how u feel. I was showing very early on. Its good to know that more people have this, i felt a bit weird at first coz my friends were so far ahead of me yet i was showing much much more...

Thanks and hope all goes well

xo

[Alyssas_Mum]

With my first i popped straight out (i always put it down to the ice-cream) i had a tummy at 3 months and just continued to grow, I had ppl tell me i was tiny at 7 months and the next week i was huge, so it all depends on a number of dif things and ppl and who they've seen preg, this time i'm already 3 months and no-one can tell im preg, even when im wearing skin tight tops (although i secretly am already wearing a belly band belt thingo cause my jeans are too tight they make me feel sick but they still fit thank god, im not ready to buy maternity clothes yet)

[MantaRay]

I was the same - showing by 8 weeks and huge by around the half way mark. It did slow down a bit but I was still big compared to average. It was even faster second time around - I was showing before I was even 4 weeks pg LOL!!

[first_timer]

Hi there!

I am just on 16 weeks and am HUGE!! I was wondering the exact same thing as you..is this normal??? and you know what - i dont have an answer because i dont think that anything is normal in pregnancy, we are all different and we will all experience different things. If you are that concerned speak to a midwife or GP...I look like im 6mnts if not more. For me however it could also be because i am not as regular (if you know what i mean) so i do bloat a lot, and also becuase prior to my pregnancy i always had a bit of a tubby belly.

I say enjoy it while it lasts cos its a beautiful thing to be this huge

I get comments all the time.."gee your huge"..are you sure its not twins???....are you sure youre only 4 mnths??...oh youre going to have a huge baby!! LOL...its neverending.

Dont forget though that there is a lot more than just a baby in there so it needs to grow and make room for just about everything.

Good luck with the rest of the pregnancy and remember..we all grow different!!

[mountain mummy]

If it's any consolation, when I was pregnant with my first, the first sign for me was that my clothes were fitting a bit too snuggly!! Things that used to hang off me were getting tight - and I wasn't even four weeks at the time!! (Admittedly I was VERY active, and small and slender too). I had people asking me at six months pregnant if I was due "any day now", and I'd say, no, I've still got 3 months to go, and they'd say, "oh it must be twins then" ... no, just the one, very big, very healthy baby!!

This time I'm on my 4th, and at 27 weeks, people are just starting to notice .... (perhaps it's all the big jumpers and many layers of early winter clothes that have hidden it though!!) But having said that, I do feel smaller at this stage than I did with my other three - this time around though, I have a low lying placenta, whereas the other three were high, so I wonder if placenta position has anything to do with it too ...

Like the others have said, everyone is different, and if your drs and/or midwives aren't concerned, then neither should you be!

[DANNIIM]

With my first....although 6yrs ago i didn't show until way into the 20 plus wks and with this one although only 6wks i can feel i have starting to harden up and expand low in my abdomen and just feel generally pregnant so early on! Wish this morning sickness would be kind to me though!!