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Just puff your stomach out and rest your hand on it. Non-pregnant people don't hang out with their hand on their stomach

Eat a lot of ice cream worked for me. Ha!

I always found that maternity dresses/pants made my bump look rounder. I assume you couldn't find a maternity dress you liked? (It may be a moot point now if you've already rented those.) Those bandage dresses are just so tight that I'd worry about it squishing the bump and making you look even more un-round, if that makes sense.

I always feel like empire waist dresses make bumps look bumpier!

I’m also in the camp of rocking the bump. More than making your bump “pop” or shaping it; you might want to have a backup on hand with that first dress because of the obvious bellybutton issue it has. One of the RTR pictures with the chick who is like 5’11” and 120lbs. - - even though there is obviously not an ounce of fat on her and she’s got a rockin’ body, you can clearly still see her bellybutton with that dress on. I imagine that will be much more obvious when a pregnant belly of any shape and look odd, since the dress is so tight. I dunno, maybe it’s my own weird bellybutton issues, but that would be my chief concern. Not one wants a bellybutton taking center stage over a bump.

Love the second dress.

Empire waist dresses will show a small bump off better. I'd be worried that a bandage dress would squish whatever bump you do have.

I agree with others that the bandage dress may flatten the bump and be less flattering than you want. I rented this dress at somewhere between 20-22 weeks, and it was SUPER flattering and really showed off the bump.
http://www.minefornine.com/item/is001-001-007
I assume this one would also work. http://www.minefornine.com/item/is005-001-007

I'll see if I can find a picture of me wearing it and come back to post it. It really looked great (not to toot my own horn).

ETA: here's a photo.

@PrincessBaby: I have a few HL dresses and they are pretty tight across the belly. Not really enchanting. If you want to rock the bump, empire dresses accentuate the bump more.