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12-12-2012 at 11:53 AM
carwink
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When did you start showing?

Hi all!  I was wondering if anyone has started showing yet!?!  A little background on me, and then maybe you will let me know if this is normal or not.  This will be my first child, I am 30 years old and very active and in shape. My normal weight is 124 lbs.  I will be exactly 10 weeks tomorrow.  I have always worked out, and have kept a flat belly, however, I am noticing weight gain in my tummy area, and I also feel it is showing in my arms and legs.  Is anyone else showing and gaining weight?  Right now I am at 127 and I feel that is a lot of weight to be gaining when the size of my baby is described to be a olive.  

 Also, I am eating pretty healthy, lots of fruits veggies, wheat carbs, but i do cheat here and there which i find normal.  Nothing to extreme.  I do find myself hungry every hour as though I haven't eaten in forever...any feed back would be so appreciated!


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12-12-2012 at 11:54 AM
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With my first I didn't show until about 20 weeks, this time around I was definately showing at 14.

 
12-12-2012 at 12:00 PM
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I am size 2/4 normally. With my first I didn't show till late 5th month. With subsequent pregnancies I've started showing before 12 weeks. I ALWAYS gain weight early. I'm not sure why but it's my body's way. It stinks but I guess it could be worse. Many women come out of 1st trimester same or even down due to m/s. I usually gain 5-8lbs just in first tri. But I still usually end up at the 35-40lb mark and have thus far been able to lose it all and more each time without having to purposely diet/excercise.


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12-12-2012 at 12:02 PM
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20 weeks with my first. We will see with this one.

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12-12-2012 at 12:06 PM
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With number one I could tell around 16 weeks. I know by the end of the day I would blow up like a balloon with bloat. No one else could tell until around 24 weeks and I would guess that was actually the baby showing and not just my bloated belly.

With this one I can already tell, though no one else would.  By the end of the day I look five months pregnant. I know this is not actually the baby, but it sure looks like it. 


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12-12-2012 at 12:07 PM
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PrimRoseMama:
20 weeks with my first. We will see with this one.

She asked on July 2013 too :)

 

 


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12-12-2012 at 12:07 PM
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PrimRoseMama:
20 weeks with my first. We will see with this one.

She asked on July 2013 too :)

 

 


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I am friends with President Obama. I asked him to dress up in an Easter Bunny costume and show up at my parents' house with a giant check for $1 million a la Ed McMahon on Easter Weekend. We were going to make them think that they had won Publishers Clearinghouse sweepstakes LOL. As soon as they answered the door, we had our friend stage a robbery - they made it look like everyone in the Publisher's Clearninghouse van was violently murdered. They threw the "bodies" out of the van onto the street and peeled out. We had a fake ambulance and police show up. Then my parents' neighbors came by with a basket of kittens - they were SO cute! Just when my parents were so freaked out by seeing kittens after a murder/robbery AND having won $1 million, we had Pres. Obama take off the Easter Bunny head and say "Surprise!! You're going to be grandparents!" My parents will never forget that moment. - Pillowass
 
12-12-2012 at 12:16 PM
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PrimRoseMama:
20 weeks with my first. We will see with this one.

She asked on July 2013 too :)

 

 



You beat me to it. And after all the showing questions the last few days, this one required crossposting?



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12-12-2012 at 12:17 PM
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Alicia0817:
Unpossible:

PrimRoseMama:
20 weeks with my first. We will see with this one.

She asked on July 2013 too :)

 

 



You beat me to it. And after all the showing questions the last few days, this one required crossposting?


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12-12-2012 at 12:19 PM
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kcox123:
I am size 2/4 normally. With my first I didn't show till late 5th month. With subsequent pregnancies I've started showing before 12 weeks. I ALWAYS gain weight early. I'm not sure why but it's my body's way. It stinks but I guess it could be worse. Many women come out of 1st trimester same or even down due to m/s. I usually gain 58lbs just in first tri. But I still usually end up at the 3540lb mark and have thus far been able to lose it all and more each time without having to purposely diet/excercise.


This is me exactly, expect I gain a ridiculous amount of weight! I gained 60 with my first son and 45 with my second. I always gain lots in the first trimester, despite eating healthy and being active. I don't get it, but it's just the way it is.

Normally, I'm quite thin, about 6'2 and about 160 lbs. I don't get why I gain so much weight, but i've accepted it. I've lost it all very easily with both my kids and am hoping that I will be able to do that again. I'm trying to be very careful about my weight but at 7w5d, I'm already up 3 lbs and I thought that was pretty good actually! LOL.

Anyway, I wouldn't worry about it. Sounds like you're being healthy! Your doctor will tell you if he or she is concerned :
 
12-12-2012 at 12:22 PM
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Tomorrow I will be 7 weeks and also an avid fitness enthusiast. This morning I weighed in at +5lbs. I have been +2.  Nothing but junk sounds good to eat, so junk it is and a few forced protein and veggies/fruit it is. I am still working out 1 hr every morning as I always have only just Weights/Elliptical. Trying to taking it one day at at time. Its my first too at 32 so I don't know either but I would say you are ok. 

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12-12-2012 at 12:23 PM
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Thank you kcox123 and MrserinJ!  This makes me feel a lot better, and a lot less worried.  I have my first appt with the OBGYN this Friday, but I just felt I couldn't wait to ask the question.  Appreciate your posts, and again thank you so much!!!

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12-12-2012 at 12:27 PM
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Hi 406chandler, thank you for your post!  Now I feel I am just going to embrace the weight gain.  As for the working out part I havent had the energy to after work, or in the morning, but I hear the second trimester you get your energy back and I plan on being back in the gym doing what is allowed while pregnant.  Plus I bought some videos for home when I don't feel like getting ready and going out.  Thanks again for your post!!!  Much appreciated.

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12-12-2012 at 1:21 PM
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I started to pop a little right around 12 weeks.

I just have a tiny bump going on.


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12-12-2012 at 4:19 PM
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12 weeks with my first, 10 weeks with my second, 9 weeks with my last.

It doesn't really matter so much the size of the baby, the uterus stretches to make room for the baby, fluid, etc, it's not that the baby itself stretches the uterus.

 


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12-12-2012 at 5:30 PM
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First like 7 weeks i was like that too i was hungry all the time i am almost 13 weeks and it has slowed down a lot. I started showing i feel like after six weeks. 
 
12-12-2012 at 5:45 PM
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20ish weeks with my first, 16ish weeks with my fourth, some where inbetween with the others. This question is always kind of a hard one, to me a show a lot sooner (around 12 weeks this time I saw a little bump), I say 20 and 16 because that is when I think people who know me would know for sure. This time around I didn't get asked anything by strangers till 25-26 weeks IIRC. I think people wait a bit longer to say anything for fear of foot in mouth. 

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12-12-2012 at 7:53 PM
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shainatay4:
I started showing i feel like after six weeks. 

 

That's called bloat...

 
12-13-2012 at 8:13 AM
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A lot of it is probably just bloat. I am somewhat showing at almost 14 weeks. I have a teeny tiny bump so far.

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12-14-2012 at 12:54 PM
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The first time a stranger asked if I was pregnant last time around I was about 14/15 weeks. 

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12-14-2012 at 10:05 PM
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PrimRoseMama:
20 weeks with my first. We will see with this one.

Somewhere around here and maybe a little later.  I didn't take weekly pics with DS, maybe more like biweekly.  At my 22 week one you could tell if I was wearing slim clothes, but in a tshirt or sweatshirt...you wouldn't have any idea.

I hear you show sooner with #2. I'm seeing how far I can go at work without people knowing I'm pregnant for fun.  :)


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