my stomach feels different

Yup, normal. Especially as its your first. I remember with my daughter, I couldn't stop rubbing my belly even though no one except me could feel the 'bump' because it was so weird and cool feeling the little hard grapefruit there!

Edited by caraMel

Funny how as soon as I knew I was pregnant, my stomach became the focus of so much more attention. I find myself with my hands rubbing my tummy, or just touching... Like I am trying to keep baby safe and warm in there... Have noticed that low down is getting rounder and harder - can't wait until I can feel the little peanut moving!! how exciting!

im not sure how i will be with people touching my stomach. I will probably get annoyed if a complete stranger comes up and just starts touching my stomach.

I must admit I felt it was a bit of an invasion of my personal space at first, but as I say we are not at all the private types and I have to admit its more so the guys that want to touch, I think they are intrigued by it all! Everytime we see our friends they ask when I am going to start showing, they can't wait! Not for a little while yet, the baby is only teeny tiny!

Thinking about it I kind of also get "warm fuzzies" knowing that our friends want to be such a big part of our babies journey and that they can give my belly a pat and feel so comfortable with it, I guess its their way of showing how much they really care for us!

Our friends have even set up a "sweepstake" for our baby, its $5 entry and each person guesses the birth date, weight, birth time and sex, but all the money goes to the baby to open their first bank account - too cute I must say!

Sorry I am thread-jacking

I found when I was pregnant that you kinda become public property, people feel they can rub your tummy whenever they want or comment on you and your size, it did kind of annoy me a little bit (mostly the comments though).

And funny thing about rubbing your belly, was thinking about that the other night, right from the time I knew I was pregnant I would rub my belly, and as soon as Elle was born I didn't anymore, I think its the start of bonding with your bubs and the protective feeling over it.

It is nice having a tum tum with bubs....

I once had a random lady come up and rub my tummy, like she was the one that had got me pregnant... I was most put out, so I tweaked her nipple and told her to respect my space!!!!

I reckon it should be normal.....Thinkin back.... Guess it is just everything moving around, stretching and growing for bubs.

Lots of things happen in there lol. The stomach gets squished into some random corner and the hard feeling sometimes just feels like bloatedness, makes me rub it too (when I'm pg ).