https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:08:50 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hardly-showed-the-1st-time-what-to-expect-the-2nd#post-1914244 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 08:43:29 +0000 blackbird 1914244@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>well, i'm on my 2nd (and i definitely have room for this baby--i'm 5'11") and cannot believe how popped i am at 12 weeks.</p> <p>But hey, if you want 6 kids, you'll for sure be popping by then, LOL :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hardly-showed-the-1st-time-what-to-expect-the-2nd#post-1914203 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 08:11:22 +0000 LemonLong 1914203@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never got huge. Here's pictures of me going to the hospital to give birth for my first and second. I wore a lot of bump enhancing clothes and tried to push my belly out and my hands were always resting on it so that I looked bigger than I actually was. </p> [attach=2482/14/ndy9yy.450x600.image.jpg] [attach=2482/14/ndy9z0.253x515.image.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hardly-showed-the-1st-time-what-to-expect-the-2nd#post-1914058 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 03:43:47 +0000 Ree723 1914058@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I carried pretty small both times - I didn't even have a hint of a bump until 20 weeks either time. With my first, it wasn't noticeable that I was pregnant until about 24-26 weeks, with my second, it was maybe a week or two earlier than that. I measured small the entire time with both pregnancies but was actually a bit smaller at the end of my second pregnancy, despite being pregnant for one day longer than with my first! I also have a very short torso but had quite tight abdominals before both pregnancies so that may have been a factor. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hardly-showed-the-1st-time-what-to-expect-the-2nd#post-1914023 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 00:35:14 +0000 lamariniere 1914023@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was definitely visibly pregnant with both LOs, but I didn't get to the "she's definitely pregnant, that's not a beer gut" stage with LO1 until about 6 months. With LO2, it was clear around 4 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hardly-showed-the-1st-time-what-to-expect-the-2nd#post-1913464 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 18:01:37 +0000 Skadi 1913464@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think pregnant women are so beautiful. DH and I had been together nine years before deciding to get pregnant, so there a good long while before getting pregnant that I gazed lovingly at the big beautiful bellies of pregnant women I knew. There was just something to sweet about the thought of caressing my own swollen belly, knowing what precious life was growing inside.</p> <p>I don't want to completely minimize the joy of my first pregnancy, because of course I could feel her kicks and knew she was in there, but I did not get the big belly I was hoping for. I was one of those women who people couldn't tell was pregnant even up until the 40th week. I actually weighed less on my due date than I did before getting pregnant, thanks to morning sickness. The nurses could hardly believe I was about to give birth, and during my emergency c-section, the doctor commented about how far up under my ribs the baby was stuck. They had to really push and pull to get her out. She weighed 7 lbs. 7 oz. despite that.</p> <p>Has anyone else gone through this and had a second or third child? I'm just wondering if I should expect this every time because of my long torso or whatever. I've always heard that women show more quickly with the second pregnancy, so maybe I'll get bigger next time? Or maybe you only show quicker if your tummy been sort of stretched out before (which I wasn't)?</p> <p>I know this sounds silly. It really shouldn't matter. But I'm curious. :silly: </p>