Showing??

I'm not even 9 weeks yet but my tummy is HUGE! I don't think I've put weight on yet (I exercise have not been able to eat much due to m/s) actually I think I may have lost weight . . . yet I have a big belly!

With my first, my tummy popped straight away, I think I retain a lot of fluid. My digestion has also slowed down a tonne (thanks, progesterone) so I suspect this is why I honestly look like I'm showing! Which sucks because I don't want work to know about this!

Am I the only one who has a big tummy so early?

I was showing at 10 weeks with DD - and ive heard with the second you tend to pop out a bit quicker. May have to invest in a few looses tops to keep it under wraps for a few weeks. Congratulations though :)

Thanks. I think I was showing with DD around that time as well. What confuses me is that it isn't until 10 weeks that the uterus actually extends above the pelvic bones!

I was in mat clothes by 10wks with my second.

With my first I had a flat tummy till 26 weeks, this time around im a bloated whale at 9 weeks. I guess its just water retention, bowels, and ur tummy muscles :)

I am also 9 wks and showing & it does make it so hard to keep the secret!!! Loose tops all the way!

My sister well and truely had popped by 10 weeeks :)

Yep it certainly does happen!! At 5 weeks I had no hope of doing my pants up. Everyone said I was just bloated but it never went down - only got bigger. By 10 weeks I was in maternity clothes!! Did feel a little funny buying that kind of stuff so early but I was so uncomfortable in anything else.
Looking back at photos it's obvious I was pregnant. It does make it hard if you're trying to keep it secret though. Keep wearing loose things - at least you can get away with lots of layers in winter!!

Hiya
I was around 10-11wks when my tummy truly popped - I am bigger than my friend who is 24wks and I am not even 14wks.

All I am eating is oranges at the moment so its not excess weight - I don't think ;)

Congrats, Tess.

I've dug my own grave here because I only really own right shirts! I find that lose shirts seem to hang off my frame in funny ways and make me look bigger than I am (since I have big boobs and wide hips) whereas tight things show off my waist. Unfortunately they're showing off my bump as well!

i so know what you mean.
8 weeks i poped.
and its getting bigger i look about 20 weeks but only 14 lol

need new work shirts actually the buttons are starting to pull lol

My first i didnt really start showing until about 12wks, 2nd i popped at about 10wks but this one i have looked REALLY bloated since about 7wks!! my mums worried its twins lol

Yeah, when I went to see my family at xmas I wanted to wait to tell them till into the second tri for the usual reasons - but it was so blindingly obvious I didn't stand a chance of hiding it. I was almost at the second anyway so it wasnt so hard, but I had been "feeling" the bump when I lay on my stomach for a few weeks before that.

Ooooh look at you Inertia, so close now!!

I know! I think I might be getting somewhere with these daily contractions. Even the small ones are really hurting! Not waking up DH just yet though. Will time them for a while first I think.

That's always good news! When your labour properly starts your cervix will be ready so there'll be less work to do! When I had DD she hadn't even decended properly and my cervix was rock solid shut lol. Do you think you may actually be in labour or are they BH?

Sadly, I cant tell pre-labour from established labour anymore. I just hoping that if nothing else I can get this lot to bite. I thought I lost a bit of plug before but wasnt 100% sure on that either because I had a lot of CM all the way through... then prelabour started and it stopped.. My cervix has been soft and 50% effaced (doc wasnt sure on that and not so sure on dilation because she couldnt reach it properly... welcome to the club honey - I am making jackets) for a little while now, which is probably why the CM stopped. Not really sure again.

Sheesh, you'd think I'd be an old hand at this by now!

Hi all,

I am loving reading your stories, I cannot remember when i showed with my first child, as it was almost 10 years ago but I seem to recall around the 14 -16 weeks. I am a larger person so it sucks for me because I already have the extra padding and it is going to take me a long time to show, I wasn't so big 10 years ago with my first, heck I was 19 !!! But now i would give anything to be slim to watch my baby belly poke out!! It will come soon enough though and besides, I know that I am pregnant, bub reminds me every time I even contemplate eating !! Yay for ALL DAY SICKNES!!! Not!!

Anyway
Take Care
Tash

I had to buy stretchy jeans - I live in my jeans in winter. My old ones are too tight and way too uncomfortable around my pelvis and I'm nearly 7 weeks.

Funny how everyone is different! I'm 16 weeks preggers with my 5th bub and I've only just popped out this week and been unable to do up my jeans!

I "popped" early too with DS! :lol:

I am into my 5th week and already look very bloated...this is my second pregnancy (first was a miscarriage a year ago). Slightly scared that I have a tummy so soon this time, but glad to see I"m not the only one who popped early on.

I am sooooo glad to hear that others have "popped" early. After reading your posts I feel a bit more normal. I am 9 weeks pg with my first and already most of my pants don't fit, the last few weeks it's felt like being bloated but now I have a belly and when I lay flat on my back the belly doesn't disappear anymore :rolleyes:

So many ppl are quick to give their opinions saying to me that I shouldn't be showing until around 4 mths :redface: but as I keep reading everywhere in the forums no pg is the same so I'll just go with the flow and do what is right for me and what is comfortable. I'm sure the garbage that I've been hoovering has something to do with it too. I'm certain that there will be a big "M" when I get my first us...... :p :p and if you believe it I used to hate the stuff with a passion - go figure!

I am 9 weeks today and for the past 2 weeks I have a tummy on me. I don't think it's baby though, because it looks like bloat!
I can't wait to start showing properly!!

Sue x

With my first I didn't really show until about 5 months which was also when I started to 'waddle' :D

This time...the 'bean' decided to 'pop' out two days before my wedding sooo after wearing my back laced corset on my wedding day for 2 hours I had to change my clothes half way through the reception as I couldn't eat the delicious food! Nobody minded though, but yeah 13 weeks and 'ba-boing' there I was with my 'outtie' belly button explaining to the wedding guest two days before the wedding that I was only 13 weeks not 5 months as that is what I looked like.

Luckily I had gone and bought as many gypsy style summer maxi dresses before the wedding so for my whole week on the Whitsundays I wore the most comfortable clothes ever. However it's back to work tomorrow...and I have no loose pants..not looking forward to an 9 hour shift in them..looks like its a job for 'elastic band in the button hole' until I get to the shops! :D