When did you start showing?

Question

I've heard you can start showing as early as 8 weeks or as late as 7 months! When did you start showing, and what did it feel like when you first felt your baby moving?

Answer 1

Every woman is different and shows at different times, and even carry their pregnancies differently. Some high (like me), some in the middle, and some low. I started to show at about 5 1/5 months, well that's when it really started to look like I was pregnant, not fat. You could tell that I had gained weight by 4months. And my baby moving... either feels like butterflies (sort of), mostly like strong gas bubbles just floating around that vibrate... LoL! :)

Answer 2

Hello,

I started showing at 2 months. Well, I was carrying twins. My sister did not start really showing with her first baby until 7 months. At 7 months, I was delivering my twin daughters.

I loved feeling my twins moving around in me. I was an awesome feeling and when they kicked, ouch, that hurt like the dickens...

The only thing I did not like about being pregnant was the lack of sleep, ability to eat enough (my babies crowded my belly) and I had a very difficult time breathing..

Besides that, I loved being pregnant. It is the most amazing feeling and experience. As women, we are so blessed. We are the only humans able to perform this event.

We actually get to have a live birth and bring another human being into this world. That is amazing and a miracle.

Hope this helps you.. :-)

Answer 3

I could have sworn I started showing at 2mths - all my pants were tight around the middle. At 3 mths I had other people commenting/wondering if perhaps I was pregnant. Probably not until 4 mths when it was obvious I was pregnant and not just getting fat. Would have liked to have started later... at 7mths I was as big as a house! All tummy, but I was huge. They say your second is even bigger, how would that be possible??

When I first felt my girl moving, it was right around 18 or 19wks. Just a little tickle at first, then gradually it got stronger and stronger. At the end you'll be able to feel her tiny hand/foot/knee poking out.... precious moments. Ahhh, I'm so nostalgic now....

Answer 4

I went from no belly to a beach ball around late 5 months. I used to be so sad when I saw big bellies and I barely had none, but once i started showing it just got so huge people were asking if I had twins! The feeling of my son moving was amazing. People say it feels like gas. I had no clue what I was feeling until I saw him move. My younger brothers thought it looked like something out of an alien movie. It was worth the long wait to show although I was once accused of stealing a basketball! lol

Answer 5

I started showing around 4 months with both of my boys. You will never forget the first time you feel your baby move. It has to be most awesome feeling in the whole world!!! It is nothing more than a flutter really, but you know exactly what it is!!! As you get farther along, you'll be able to lay down and actually watch your baby move inside you. And when you push and feel around your belly, you'll be able to pick out elbows or knees. It's awesome!!!

Enjoy your pregnancy!! And don't rush into maternity clothes. You'll be sooooo tired of them by the end.

Good luck Mommy!!

Answer 6

I started showing at 6 months and at 9 months people actually thought i was 5 months. Its a wonderful feeling when the baby kicks or moves. It felt like butterflies and like you wanted to fart or something lol sorry i cant find the words

Answer 7

I stopped looking "just fat" and actually pregnant at 6 months. When I first felt the baby move, and was sure that it was the baby, I had the most irrational feeling of excitement. I had a goofy smile and everything. It was, at that point, I started to care about the baby and think of it as "my child". Weird, huh?

Answer 8

I started showing at 4 months...I felt my baby move around 15 weeks...it felt like a jumping bean in my stomach...especially when I was laying in bed at night and after having some milk.

Answer 9

i started showing at 5 months. it just came out of no where. one morning i woke up and there it was. i first felt my daughter move at 6 months. she kicked for the first time, and it was amazing. just unbelievable, i couldn't stop smiling. i would fall asleep with my hand on my tummy just to feel here move at night. but she was an early bird. she would get up at about 4 or 5. move, kick and she would also get the hiccups. all very adorable. i would give anything to go back to those moments.

Answer 10

With my little girl, I started to show at 2 months and with my little boy I started to show at 4 months. It feels like a fluttering feeling in the lower abdomen during the first trimester and as they grow it feels like a shift in weight and you can actually see the baby roll over and kick.