How Did you Look at Beginning of Week 12?

[Anonymous]

I was showing from the beginning...not for real, but i'm a bloater and a sweller. and my tummy would get huge most days and definitely thick around the middle. I felt so fat all the time...i still do at 29 weeks because my hands and legs are always swollen especially since the August heat started. I look around the doctors office and there are usually 4 other pregnant ladies in the same boat as me...a bit puffy and tired looking but then there's always that one pregnant lady in the corner with perfectly svelt ankles, skinny arms and legs with the perfect little belly...hair done and make up on. where do these ladies come from?

[Anonymous]

at 12 weeks I had gained maybe 2 lbs, but all in the boobs--I was super self conscious about my tummy, which was a tiny bit poochier, but no one noticed. Now that I'm 23 weeks, and 15 lbs up, I would expect to have a cute "hey I"m preggers" bump. Instead, I'm just thick--no waist, with a kind of round, broad cylindrical shape from under the boobs to hips--it ain't pretty and to most ppl I don't look pregnant, just fat. Oh, probably doesn't help that I appear to be carrying a second child in my butt, which has most definitely grown. I remember seeing one of those women--thin, toned arms and legs, with a cute, round belly a while ago and thinking it would be nice to look like that, but I've definitely put on weight everywhere.....