re: when did you start showing?

[Guest guest]

I'll stop there before I get into my major larger babi's <rant> ... to be

continued no doubt Gethyn does reassure me what a 'beautiful' bump I

have when I get down after the umpteenth comment from some insensitive

health professional; relative; stranger; friend ..........

I got big with Lucas quite early & I got really really down when 2 of the guys

at work told me what they thought were sweet and funny anecdotes about how

tween-tiny their wives were when pg - was worse because they both chose to tell

me on the same day.... A***E . I expect when I get back they'll enjoy telling

me how their DWs sprang back into shape the next day (steeling myself for the

bikini stories).

Siobhan (34)

mum to (7 & 1/2) & Lucas (6 wks later & the pre-pg jeans fit - honest -

as long as I don't breathe or eat)

[Guest guest]

Lucky you. 3.5 years later and my pre-preg jeans still don't fit

Todman (also 34)

Treasurer, Stansted Branch (R5)

Mum to , 3½

> Siobhan (34)

> mum to (7 & 1/2) & Lucas (6 wks later & the pre-pg jeans

fit - honest - as long as I don't breathe or eat)

[Guest guest]

Yes Vicki, it does help and also explains quite a bit. I know I have

very poor muscle tone (I suffer from something called Joint

Hypermobility Syndrome and this is one of the symptoms). I went to a

post-natal exercise class and the teacher felt my abdominal muscles

and was amazed at how far apart they were!!

Francesca

Re: When did you start showing?

> Well, I'm coming into this late, as I'm just home from hols and

> struggling to catch up, but fwiw:

>

> DD1 was 8lb 8oz, DS was 9lb, DD2 was 7lb 4 oz but the biggest bump

of

> the lot. I'm 5' 2 " and was about 9st when DS was conceived. I've

> been told (and can show physical evidence to anyone close enough to

> see!) that DS split my abdominal muscles, which have never

re-knitted,

> so DD2 just bulged from the minute of conception onwards - basically

> if I lie flat on the ground and lift my head and shoulders in the

> beginnings of a sit-up, I can feel a split in my abdominal muscles

at

> belly-button to pubic bone level - taught on either side and you can

> literally put your fist in my belly. Subsequent pregnancies have

> nothing to hold them in, and show as big because of it - regardless

of

> the size of the child. There are exercises you can do to cure the

> probelm: but nothing I've found that can create the time to do the

> excercises with two small babies demanding your attention! So bulgy

> pregnancies for me from now until time isn't an issue!!

>

> Hope this helps...

>

> Vicki

>

>

> > Thanks Jenni for the reassurance. My family do have a tendency

for

> > big babies and seeing as we are all quite small to start with the

> baby

> > has to go somewhere and the only way is out!! DD1 was 8lbs 15oz

and

> > DD2 was 7lbs 15oz (a blip I think as my family normally have good

> > 9lb-ers).

> >

> > Francesca

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Good, I'm glad it helps. I was telling my Mum about it last time I saw her,

and decided to do a demonstration: we lay side by side on the floor, with

legs bent, and lifted our heads. I felt her stomach (youngest child 30 yrs)

and there was a trough but no split - she felt mine (youngest child 20 mths)

and screamed as her fist disappeared into my intestine!! Very, very funny

)

Vicki Portman

http://www.plushpants.co.uk

> Yes Vicki, it does help and also explains quite a bit.