When do you start to show?
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Topic: When do you start to show?
Posted By: Pants
Subject: When do you start to show?
Date Posted: 11 October 2009 at 7:05pm
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Sorry, I know someone asked this a few weeks back but was wondering when everyone started to show ...?
I'm only 13 weeks and pretty sure I'm not showing yet. I'm pretty tall (5ft 11in) so am assume there might be a bit of extra room in there so I might not show for a while ... but then what do I know? What have you guys found? ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: kmarie
Date Posted: 11 October 2009 at 7:18pm
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Heya - congrats!!
Well with Bethany I was very small. After a day of food sometimes I'd look like I had a bit of a tummy on me, but other than that it wasn't really until I was well over halfway (I forget how far along, maybe heading into 3rd trimester even?) that people could assume (rather than be too scared to ask in case they were wrong!) that I was actually pregnant! The really nice thing was that at full term I only looked about 6mths pregnant which was so much easier on my system! To be honest, I was gutted I didn't start showing earlier, but in the end I was so glad I was small cuz it made it a breeze. Plus no stretch marks! And lovely that Bethany weighed in at 6lb13oz. So far I think I'm heading the same way with #2  It's hard to tell though, it's so different with everyone! Hope that helps? All the best with your pregnancy, must feel so good to have passed the 12wk milestone  ------------- 
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Posted By: T_Rex
Date Posted: 11 October 2009 at 7:20pm
I felt like I was showing from about 14 weeks, but I don't think I really was. It was about 28 weeks before people were confident enough to ask me when they noticed my bump, but even so, at 29 weeks I had lunch with an exec from work who didn't notice at all so it can't have been that obvious. I think I'm quite the hippo now though! So there you go... not much help am I?  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Jelly
Date Posted: 11 October 2009 at 7:25pm
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Well I was trying to hide my bump at 12 weeks (Hadn't told the MIL yet), but looking back now it really just looked like I was having a fat day lol.
I'd say I started looking pregnant rather than fat at about 17 weeks, and every now and then I look down and it's popped out further again lol. There's no mistaking my bump now - especially after eating! ETA: I can still hide it if I want to though - It's just getting rather hard to do ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 11 October 2009 at 7:33pm
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First baby I didn't show till over 30 weeks, and was never very big second baby I showed earlier, had a bump from about 12 weeks ------------- 
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Posted By: Pants
Date Posted: 11 October 2009 at 7:35pm
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Thanks guys!! I read somewhere that 16 to 18 weeks it becomes obvious but it must depend on the person. Kmarie not showing for ages much hast have been strange but as you say, good in the end!
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 11 October 2009 at 7:57pm
Well i currently look like I ate all the pies and it's starting to firm up under the blubber and look more bump like, I've had a few people comment I'm starting to look more pregnant than piggy.  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: RinTinTin
Date Posted: 11 October 2009 at 8:06pm
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Pants - I started taking photos from 5 weeks. By 10 weeks I had to have the top of my pants undone, but from the outside nobody could really notice any different. People started actually noticing my bump at around 16 weeks I think. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: tiptoes
Date Posted: 11 October 2009 at 8:17pm
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Looking back at my photo's I thought it was so obvious at 9-10 weeks, but now I think maybe 22 weeks I looked pregnant, before that mainly just chubby - especially to others with my clothes on. From there the belly seemed to start growing really fast every week and hasn't slowed down! ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com">  
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Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 11 October 2009 at 8:35pm
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I only really started showing recently (about 18weeks), although no one has asked if I am pregnant yet but I've been told by people who know me that I am starting to show. I'm not tall (about 165cm). ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 11 October 2009 at 9:21pm
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Pants, I'm tall, not as tall as you & both my pregs I showed late. I'd say 25 weeks (2nd Preg) is when it started looking more like a rounded belly rather than fat.
I got married at 16 weeks with #1 & expected to be showing but definitely wasn't! ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Zasha
Date Posted: 11 October 2009 at 9:59pm
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I'm 5ft 7in, with a big athletic type frame, this is my 1st pregnacy and I could still fit most my pre gregnancy clothes until I was 18 weeks, I hid it fairly well untill 26 weeks (people still couldn't tell I was prego) then all of a sudden my belly just popped out, came as a huge shock that it could happen so fast, now there's no hiding the bump.... ------------- 
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Posted By: busybee
Date Posted: 12 October 2009 at 8:18am
| I had to start unbuttoning at about 10 weeks and my close friends started noticing the pooch from about 12 weeks...most other people didn't really notice until about 20 weeks, which was the first time anyone asked me if I was pregnant. I looked fat but not pregnant until then...it really popped from looking fat to looking pregnant by about 19 weeks...I am about 5ft2 |
Posted By: Babe
Date Posted: 12 October 2009 at 8:45am
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I'm 5"7 and I'm just starting to show now (5 months). I didn't show til 6 months with Jake either and stayed tiny til right before he was born. I still fit all my pre-preg clothes too - buttons done up. -------------   
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Posted By: Inlove28
Date Posted: 12 October 2009 at 11:12am
| I felt like I had a tum from around 14 weeks too but it wasnt until 23 weeks + that people would start staring or I had to wear longer tops! |
Posted By: Pants
Date Posted: 12 October 2009 at 6:22pm
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Haa I love all the stories - 'started to undo the top botton' ... 'just looked like I ate all the pies' ... 'popping out' ... love it!!
Aliasmum 25 weeks is amazing - I'm going to hold out for that (like I have a choice!) Thanks everyone ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Richie
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 7:59pm
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I was showing by about 14wks...... people actually started asking me if I was pregnant then so it must have been obvious. I'm now 23wks and REALLY pregnant looking! Have had to uphaul my wardrobe and buy bigger sizes to fit over the bump! I think it is probably so obvious cause I've put on no weight anywhere else so It's all just baby! I'm slim build and 5"10 so I look kinda like a snake that has just eaten a goat lol that's what my dad likes calling me anyway! -------------  
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Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 8:33pm
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For Pants.... as you would understand...at the end the midwife was a little worried about my size!
20 weeks lol 
25 weeks 
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Posted By: MyLilSquishy
Date Posted: 16 October 2009 at 10:00am
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lol love the comments.
Pants - im 5'9" and me and DP started to see it about 9 weeks. jeans button undoing happened about 13 weeks and obvious to other people about 14-15wks. i lost 10 kg in about 8 weeks from my really bad MS so that made it easier to spot as well lol. |
Posted By: MrsEmma
Date Posted: 16 October 2009 at 9:26pm
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I didn't start to show until I was about 18-20 weeks.. I thought I was huge at 16 weeks but now I realise I wasn't as big as I thought I was!
Random people started commenting since about 22 weeks though which reassured me I looked pregnant and now I'm very obviously showing! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Pants
Date Posted: 17 October 2009 at 10:09am
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Wow great pics Aliasmum!! I want to be like you!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: escadachic
Date Posted: 17 October 2009 at 12:52pm
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I started showing in a pregnant looking way at 13wks. Before that it just looked like fat. -------------   
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