Big bump vs. Small bump

[pixie_woo]

Just out of curiousity; are you big bump or small bump people?
I am 29+4 weeks with my first, I am 5'2" and size 10 maternity clothes. However, I have the hugest bump! Random strangers wish me luck for the impending birth, when I tell them I've still got 10 weeks to go the next question is "Twins?".
Before I started to show I had major bump-envy and would glare at women in Mothercare! Now I would give my left arm for a little football sized lump. What a fickle creature I am!
How big/small are you? Are you happy with your bump?

[redcrx]

i started to show from about 10 weeks. By 16 weeks everyone had guessed and by 42 weeks i was size of a small semi lol

The summer makes it worse, i was so hot (was due mid june) and could only wear dungerees as trousers rolled down over my bump and made it uncomfortable.

I wouldnt change it for the world. Although 2 years on and I look about 16 weeks pregnant all the time lol

[nat_84]

I'm a little bump :o( but i'm proud of it :o)

I'm 22 years old - I'm 29 weeks on Saturday and bump has grown rapidly in the last month!! I'm noticing my belly move and kick sooo much more - which i love!

I cant fit into any of my original size 10 jeans and i've put on abour 15lbs!! now weighing in, just over 10 stone.

I think i'm only just noticable to the passing eye!

Do u notice that every one looks and stares at ur bellyin the street now?!

[pixie_woo]

Yes nat_84, every other person gapes at my belly. The fact that I could poke small child's eye out with my belly button doesn't help!

[nat_84]

ha ha!! MInes slowly forming into an "outy"... aslong as it returns to a "inny" then i'm happy! lol.

Last month (when i just looked like i had a beer belly) my boyfriend would rub my belly in public so people actually knew i was pregnant - rather than an alcoholic!

[lilyfrog]

O am soooo jealous pixi_woo!! I am 7+1 weeks gone and I am desperate to start to show!

My husband thinks I already have a bump but that is all the extra food I am consuming as I have so far managed to avoid any morning sickness. (galaxy ripple and a peanut butter kitkat chunky so far this lunchtime!)

[boobesque]

I started to show at 10 weeks, by 38 weeks (just before birth) i was actually quite small! But i only put on 7lb while pregnant and Emmy was 8lb 5oz!

I was pregnant during last years heatwave and was in my 7th month in the august and OMG it was absolutely awful!

My belly button threatened to pop and had i got to 40 weeks it would! Yuck!

[jollygreen]

Hi Pixie - I fully sympathise! I stopped going to our corner shop when pregnant cos the woman there always made some comment about twins/triplets etc I was 9 st when I fell pregnant and put on 4.5 st!! At 5ft 2 I looked like a weeble. I swear when my waters broke it would have filled an olympic swimming pool (baby was just shy of 10lb which had a lot to do with it!) I promise you its utrerly worth it though. take care xx mrs jg

[happyred]

I'm 29 weeks on saturday and have a perfectly rounded football in me!! You wouldn't know i was pregnant frm the back!
I was 9st at the start and am now 10 and a half...so not bad!
I am still wearing my sized 10 jeans, but bras are getting a little uncomfortable!!

[annie0000]

Both my bumps were big, but so perfectly round it looked like I had a medicine ball stuffed up my top! Even in the delivery ward, the midwives said that they had never seen a bump so perfectly round before and they had seen a lot of bumps. Boys were 9lb 13 and 8lb 3 (2 weeks early).