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Did you have a big belly when pregnant

Posted: Feb 3, 2010

I saw a girl who was 8 months pregnant but just had the tinest little pooch showing. I'll bet it was her first. And, of course, that last month can be a real killer for weight gain.

I did that with DS#1, but had a HUGE belly with DS#2. My skin was stretched so tight I felt like if someone poked it with a pin, I'd go flying around the room like a balloon does when you let the air out.

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preg - Uptown gal

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I didn't show until the middle of my eighth month with my first. He was 9 3/4 pounds! I didn't hardly show with my second either and she was a month early at 6 1/2 pounds!

My weight on the day of delivery with my first was 125 1/2! I was really lucky I guess. Don't have stretch marks, except teeny tiny on my low booty that are usually invisible with a good tan.

My mom is a little lady and had 7 kids! I have a picture of her in her late 30s in a bikini and she looks so fit and beautiful.

Not really. - sm

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I didn't show very much, and a lot of people commented on that. But I'm a fairly large woman and my parents and grandparents were fairly big people, as well. I'm 5-feet, 6-inches and at 155 pounds, I'm a size 10. So I like to say I'm big boned. I was actually smaller with my second child and only gained 12 pounds through that pregnancy. Of course, I'm sure that the 8-1/2 months of constant morning sickness helped keep the weight off! He was born 2 weeks early and was 8 pounds, 2 ounces.

I used to teach a pregnancy fitness class at our local YMCA, and one of the things I taught the new moms was how to check for muscle separation along the rectus muscles. Many of the women had separated muscles before the end of their pregnancies. My muscles never separated, and I count myself lucky. I'm sure that also had something to do with not showing so much during pregnancy. At age 48, I still have a flat belly, but being active helps in that regard, and I only had two pregnancies.

PREGNANT BELLY - EagleEye

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Yes I did. I gained about 25-30 pounds with both pregnancies. I am not a small person though anyway. Not overweight, but not a petite person either. My first child weighed 7 pounds 9 ounces and the second one weighed 8 pounds 15 ounces. A lot of my gain was fluid apparently because I lost nearly all of my pregnancy weight afterwards. I was one of those unfortunate souls who holds a lot of fluid, swollen ankles, hands during pregnancy. It used to make me sick to see this little 100 pound stick thin gal in my office gain only 10 pounds and had absolutely no swelling at all in her hands and feet. Pregnancy is an individual situation for everyone though. Some people get bigger than others, some swell, some don't, some get sick and some don't.

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