They say you start showing sooner with your second kid. I'm about three and a half months along, and already two people have actually asked me if I was pregnant. Well, they didn't come right out and ask. One looked surprised when she saw me, then pointed to her stomach and grinned. The other asked me pointedly if I had any NEWS I would like to SHARE. (I suppose I could have told her, "Yes, I just won the town pie-eating contest!")
I hope it's just an earlier start, and it doesn't mean I'm going to get bigger than last time. I am short and have a small frame. With K, six months in I got comments like, "You look like you're about to pop" and "Are you sure you're not having twins?"
One good thing about getting bigger is that I'm out of the awkward in-between stage for clothing. No more holding my jeans together with rubber bands and elastic belts! I started wearing maternity pants to work this week. Ah, elastic waistbands, I've missed you so. I don't know why regular pants don't all have elastic waistbands. It's like I'm secretly wearing sweatpants to work.
I second elastic waistbands on work clothes, I mean, why not.
ReplyDeleteAhh, the difference being a bigger girl -- I'm almost 25 weeks (that's what? six months?) and still wearing my usual clothes, with occasional belly bands and button extenders. And except when I wear particular tops, no one would yet guess I'm preggers.
ReplyDeleteAlso: weird captcha -- sidica. Reminds me of sciatica.
Well you beat me. I started wearing maternity pants at like 10 weeks, and people started asking me if I was pregnant (straight out asking, like "Are you expecting?") at 13 weeks. (I so badly wanted to say no, but I couldn't bring myself to do it!)
ReplyDeleteYup, apparently after that first kid we're all kinds of stretchy.
Oh yes. I showed much earlier with this one and now, at the end, am feeling it way more than I did with Pumpkinhead. My doctor said your muscles have "memory" and that a lot of women experience more round ligament pain at the end of pregnancy because those muscles are weaker. Fun, fun...
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