How do you show?

Mandee
on 11/28/12 12:33 am - NY

So this may be an odd question, but since loosing over 100lbs before pregnancy, I have lots of flabby skin particularly around my midsection.  It almost looks like I have an upper and lower stomach.  I am 12 weeks now and I can feel the bump starting to get hard, but with all the extra skin I can't help but wonder how it will look or will I just look fat again.  Wondering if anyone else has had the extra skin and how it effected the way that you show?

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cryspyx
on 11/28/12 2:22 am - Hartford, CT

i'm curious about that one myself. i'm not skinny. i still weigh 235 pounds. i wonder if i'm going to look pregnant, or i'm just going to look really fat again.

Celia S.
on 11/28/12 2:33 am - Grand Junction, CO

Okay, ladies - here I go :) I started this pregnancy at 265 and am currently floating between 235 and 240. I have what they call a "B" shaped belly - meaning I have an upper belly and a lower belly, though mine still has a considerable amount of fat filling it out - it's not just skin. Anyway, this is how I show. I look SUUUPER pregnant with clothes on (this is me at 39 weeks)... but it's harder to tell by looking at my bare belly (taken a few days ago). Hope this helps or give you some idea on what could be :)

 

And here's one of me as close to pre pregnancy as I could get... 5 weeks pregnant...

kanga003
on 12/3/12 2:47 am

I think that I look a lot like you... I was 185 when my pregnancy started, but my tummy still looks a lot like yours!  Thank you for sharing!!!

Nikki M.
on 11/28/12 3:56 am

I have a loose hanging panny. I had a great baby bump and then a hangy part underneath. I just tucked that part in my pants and looked alright while standing. Sitting, my belly morphed into giant looking fat rolls and you couldn't really tell I was pregnant. I tried to not care because I was pregnant and thats what I wanted, but it did make me a little sad. Every body is different!

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Alice P.
on 11/28/12 4:41 am

I have the loose skin with upper and lower buldges,I am 18 weeks and my uterus is just below my belly button but it has pushed the loose skin above my belly button out and that's the part of my belly that sticks out most and people think is the baby and touch.  It depends what I wear how pregnant I look.  I don't have a round hard belly yet but do believe I will get it--I never had it with my pregnancies pre op--I was between 230 and 280 lbs with them. I was in the 140s when I started this pregnancy.  I did look pregnant 3rd trimester with my boys pre op

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Paula622
on 11/29/12 2:51 am

When I got pregnant, I still had a bit of a "B" shaped belly.  I wore shaping tanks and belly bands to help round things out.  By the end though, I had a nice round shape.  This picture was taken at about 33 weeks, right after my 1 year surgiversary.

 

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Time_for_Monica
on 11/29/12 3:30 am - Levittown, NY

My Tw 24weeks.jpgin Boy belly at 24 weeksenlightened

                        
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Stacey D.
on 11/29/12 4:26 am - Harrisonburg, VA

I am very different shaped because I had a tummy tuck, but I carry my baby real high.  My first one you really couldn't tell I wasn't just gaining a lil weight until about six months, this one is looking the same about 17 weeks in...starting to poop just below my boobs, but hard belly there...nothing in the lower part. 

 

This is me last time, 6-7 months....

 

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Alice P.
on 11/29/12 5:26 am, edited 11/29/12 5:27 am

I posted earlier about how I am carrying but just took a photo for a friend so thought I would include it here.  I'm 18 weeks, this is my 3rd pregnancy but first 2 kids were pre op

 

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