I know questions like this have been asked in the past but I couldn't find any of the old ones. And I am usually the one writing that with my first and second pregnancy I didn't start showing until like 6 months along. Well right now I am only 5 weeks and I haven't gained any weight (I weight 110 pounds) but I feel like I already have a small little bump or pooch right below my belly button. I can still wear my pants and everything but I'm just kinda shocked to already not have a flat tummy anymore. Has any one had this happen so early and even though there is no weight gain yet? Or is it just all in my head? LOL
I am 15 weeks along and think I'm going to wear my first maternity item tonight. Things are starting to get a little snug around the waist with the third. I did start to have the pooch around 10 weeks.
With just my 2nd I showed right away. I too am small (112) and with my first didn't show until 5 months or so, BUT with #2 wow I showed right away. Now my first was only 6 months old when I got prego again so I think my tummy didn't have time to get back in shape, but I was in maternity clothes right away. It was a bummer...
But with both girls I only gained 25-28 pounds, so even though I started to show sooner, I didn't gain any more weight. And with #2 my total tummy size was way smaller at the end of the pregnancy. I thought for sure since I was showing so soon I was going to be huge! Not the case...
Your tummy has just been used before, so it is ready for this kiddo.
For my third pregnancy I gained a ton of weight right away and showed by month 2. I am always in great shape and have a flat tummy so I was a bit alarmed when I actually gained 70 pounds! YIKES! Needless to say, I dropped all the weight and got back to my pre-baby body only to surprisingly become pregnant again with #4! With this pregnancy, I showed within the first few weeks of finding out but did not gain a single pound for the first 18 weeks. In fact I lost a few pounds. I am now at week 20 and in a week and a half I look markedly pregnant and put on 6 pounds. All I can say is every pregnancy is totally different, you never know what to expect. I say just go with the flow, your body is very aware of what to do when pregnant now you probably will show earlier.
Good luck and congrats!
I'm on number 5- this time I was in maternity clothes by two weeks after my test and hadn't gained a pound. With number 4 I got bigger even though I had lost 10 pounds- I didn't even know I was pregnant till the end of the first trimester, thought I was just struggling after a misscairrage.
My doc says it's normal- your body remembers and just prepares.
While of course we are all different...I know for me (currently pregnant with #3) I was wearing maternity clothes pretty much exclusively around 10 weeks and before that I was breaking out the looser fitting clothes.
I have not had the "you show earlier every time" thing hold true. Like you, I typically don't start showing until about 6mo. I do have some bloating in the beginning that always makes me panic a little that I will show earlier, but the bloating subsides around the end of t he first tri, and apparently it's only ever noticeable to me. I just had my eighth baby 3wks ago and even with my fundal height measuring way ahead (6wks ahead!) for the first 5months of the pregnancy, I still wasn't visibly pregnant until around 24-26wks (I was 120lbs, a size 2 when I got pg).
You could buck your trend since every pregnancy really is different, or it could be bloating that just might subside within a few weeks.
Congrats mama! I didn't really gain any weight until the end of my 3rd trimester with #3, but I swear I looked pregnant the day after I got a positive pregnancy test, lol. I think it is completely normal.
When I was pregnant with my first I didn't show until 4 months, second 10 weeks, 3rd, I was only 6 weeks before my pants didn't fit. There was a 4 year gap between my 3rd and 4th and I made it to 18 weeks in my pre-prego pants... I was shocked, I also didn't gain any weight, lost some actually with my 4th. But then at 18 weeks I BALLOONED like my body remembered what was going on and I sure looked pregnant, I still only gained around 20 pounds. I think it depends on how close together they are. My first three were close in age.
I'm in week 8 of #3 and had to get out some elastic pants last night. My sis said the same thing happened to her. The thing I am struggling with is that we were hoping to wait to tell everyone until the first trimester was done (fear of miscarriage, I guess). I'm thinking some people will just figure it out!
With my third I was noticeably pregnant by 8 weeks!! No kidding, we people starting asking by 8 or 9 weeks if I was expecting!!!
