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It is common in the second trimester to really start noticing your belly popping out. Everyone is different - there is no exact formula to popped out bellies!
This poll is for members to vote on when their belly popped out (became blaringly noticable that you are pregnant to the public!) with their FIRST baby. It is common for bellies to pop sooner in subsequent pregnancies as the uterus is already stretched, so to make this more accurate, we are asking for first pregnancies only :)
4-5 months here too
It wasn't a huge thing and for all of my pregnancy i fitted into my normal clothes :) I was often asked where i was hiding the baby.
Love
I hated it until my belly stuck right out. Because being overweight and pregnant when the bump starts to show you are the only one who can notice it LOL so people just assume you are overweight. But then when the bump did start to show, I got "is it twins" nearly all the time :roll: Ohhhhhhhhhh I miss having a bump! I can't wait...I am sooooo clucky!
*hugs*
Cailin
18 weeks on the dot....like clockwork... that wed there it was!
Christy
my belly popped at 4.5 months.. i miss having my bump :( cant wait till im pregnant again.. almost 2 cycles to go untill we start trying again :D
take care
Lesley
5-6 months here which was a bummer as previously no one thought i was pregnant, when i wanted the world to kmow. haha
Jo
It wasnt till I hit 5 months that I finally looked unmistakably preggers. At a midwifes checkup at 18 weeks I remember the midwife telling me I had a really compact little bump, and I felt like I wasnt showing at all. I swear the enormous belly I'm sporting now appeared overnight!
Hi All! I'm 17 weeks w/ first pregnancy and it seems my belly starting showing all of a sudden last week and it just seems to get bigger every day..lol.
Well this is my first pregnancy in my 18th week. I "popped out" at 4 months exactly. It was on my 18th birthday and i remember thinking, OMG where did that come from?! LOL
My first pregnancy everyone could see my belly at 8 weeks. At 12 weeks I couldn't get my sipper to move at all on my pants.
This time I'm due in mid December but people think I'm due in august 8-[
Sanna
Hi, I'm new here. I'm in my 19th week and so far no real belly. I am quite wide across the hips and have always been a bigger person so ppl tell me not to worry. I can feel bub move, but to look at me you can't tell I am nearly 5 months along. It's a little disappointing because I want the world to know I am carrying my husbands baby! \:D/
I think mine 'popped' at about 20 weeks, although I had already put on an extra 17kg by that stage, so it was a bit harder to get the attention off my expanding bum & hips, and onto my tummy!!!!
My belly had different popping stages!1 It popped out at about 20 weeks, then again to a different shape at 30 weeks then it has gone to a beach ball pop from 37 weeks on! I know they are different popping but isnt it weird and wonderful how our bellies change shape??
Not exactly sure when, but I had a bit of a belly since at least 7w. My pants were getting tighter before I even knew I was pg & I found out at 3w 6d!! I had said to Aaron leading up to the BFP that we really have to go on a diet cos my pants were getting too tight :oops:
Now at 13w I am not fitting into ANY pants I own at all!
My first baby I didn't show until I was around 5 and a half months> I was so thin and I guess being only 17 at the time I had great ab muscles - held everything in. My 2nd was about 2 months, my third nearly straight away and with this one before I even found out at 4 weeks.
It's going to be a long pregnancy.
Take care
Trish
It was aeound the 6-7 month mark with my first...Im just one of those people who look fat,til my tummy sticks out and then i just look like im about to pop!!!
Now i am even this far along with this one,i am a bit bigger thanusual,but with my last little girl i was 37 weeks and noone except my friends knew i was pregnant...
i wonder will it be different this time with a boy??
i have just popped, at about 14 weeks on the dot. not a lot, but i am in maternity clothes now as normal are just that little bit too uncomfortable, and i do look pregnant now, \:D/ for me!
I can't tell if I have technically popped or not! Very hard to tell when I had a big belly to begin with. Will probably have to vote on the poll once I am further along so I know for sure.
I definitely look more preggers now though. My friend reckons my posture has changed to a preggy-woman posture. She quacks behind my back when I walk. So nice of her! :lol:
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Hi girls!!
I have just started to notice hardening and slight 'shaping' just above the pubic line (?) and around. Is that the first of starting to show?
TIA!!
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tia, i take it you are quite slim? sounds like that is the start of it!!
i have a bit of a pot belly and what happened with me was it went hard, and now is sticking right out.
I agree with Min sounds like you were thin to start of with like myself. I popped at 8 weeks but it was only noticeable to myself and DH, I obviously popped out at 15 weeks when people started noticing, then started getting back ache as well.
Take Care
Deeanne
I am still waiting for mine to pop, maybe it wan't happen. It is definitely shallower than it was but I don't have any of those signs.
Sorry, I thought we were talking belly buttons. My belly has definitely popped majorly in the last few weeks. I am looking very pregnant now.
i hope i dont end up with one of those belly buttons that sticks right out!
Thanks! Yeah, I am quite skinny so we're soo excited. It is just like a hard pot belly!
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*bump*
i voted 4-5 months.
i was about 20 weeks when strangers were noticing my pregnancy.
i found out i was pregnant at 27w4d and didnt have a belly at all!! it must have been about 30ish weeks when i popped, but i still managed to fit into the majority of my size 8 wardrobe, and i put on 32kg... i was all baby though!
Im 9 weeks and 2 days and I have a belly already. I have been in denial for the past week because I thought it wasn’t possible this early. I can’t even fit into any of my pants any more, im finding it a little embarrassing actually. People are asking me how far along I am and looking a little shocked when I tell them only 9 weeks.
How can I have a baby belly when the baby is only approx 2 cm????? I feel like a fraud haha.
I am not too sure if my belly has popped yet. I know that I cant do up pants and skirts like I used to so maybe it already has?! But when I suck it in, it looks like it used to but with more of a bump under the belly button... so I kinda think I havent popped yet cause if I had, then I shouldnt be able to suck it in!
My first baby I didn't show until I was 5 and half months, with this one I am showing already and I am only 12 weeks!! Although I love the fact that it has popped out, people think I have packed on the pounds. Alot of people tread carefully becuase you don't want to make the worst foot in mouth mistake ever which is asking if someone is pregnant and they are NOT! So i just tell everyone now.
OOoOO Ngala that has made think! I can suck my belly in, I just tried at my desk! Maybe im just getting FAT haha! Although the strange thing is I have lost 2 kilos since my first doctors appointment but my belly is bigger! aww I dont know!
LOL Renee! I dont think you are getting fat then. I think it just depends on what everyones opinion of 'popping out' is. To me popping out is when you have the definite round baby bump and to someone else it could be when they cant do up their pants anymore!
I popped at around 20 weeks!
I think I have popped!! Well I will know I have definitely popped when my belly is rounder but I think this week I am definitely looking pg due to a stranger asking when I am due!! LOL Caught me really off guard and said "what?!" and the lady asked again when I was due! So must be looking pg now which is great :D