https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:20:15 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-235660 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:05:56 +0000 Wigglesj 235660@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm pregnant with my third child and I'm an overweight woman. I had actually still been wearing some of maternity clothes from my last pregnancy when this pregnancy started. Now at 11 weeks I am back into maternity clothes completely. One of my friends thought this seemed to be fairly soon so I tried to explain it like this: "It's not that I'm really showing at this point, I've just lost the capability to suck in my stomach any longer!" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-233063 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:06:48 +0000 Phillybaby2013 233063@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea: I'm getting my NT scan next Monday and ill be 13 weeks so ill probably put a picture or something on FB once we get the all clear. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-233044 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:59:50 +0000 skibobrown 233044@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had a woman at work who loved to tell me (repeatedly) how she thought I was just getting fat before I announced my pregnancy. She thought it was hysterical. I did not. I think she was just envious b/c I am naturally quite slender, and she is not... She loved the idea of me getting chubby and letting myself go. Whatevs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-233027 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:52:38 +0000 MrsMccarthy 233027@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>don't worry mamas! your food baby will turn baby baby at some point. it's nice but let me tell you people still do and say rude things to pregnant ladies. so steel yourself now and try to remember you are bountiful and beautiful carrying the biological imperative! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232948 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:32:47 +0000 Andrea 232948@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Phillybaby2013: lol, funny! They will know soon enough. When do you plan to announce? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232938 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:26:00 +0000 Phillybaby2013 232938@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh I'm 12 weeks and chubby to begin with and i feel like some people at work have been staring at my stomach. (I haven't told anyone yet.) It's especially bad bc i got married in Dec and lost quite a bit of weight and people would always comment that I was looking good. Now I'm fatter, with bad hair and a pimpley face - people are prolly like man she really let herself go after the wedding! Lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232861 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:11:57 +0000 Rubies 232861@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Post a belly shot and I'm sure we'll see a cutie bumpie! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232809 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:08:13 +0000 dagret 232809@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@FutureMrsMcK: the attitude makes more sense then...they think "the borough" IS the Beverly Hills of Central PA! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232791 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:48:30 +0000 birdofafeather 232791@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i'm 15w and going to the lake with friends at 17w. i'm hoping it pops out even more because i just feel like i look bloated. but it's all the time instead of just at the end of the day. :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232781 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:41:26 +0000 pastemoo 232781@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How rude! At work people (patients, not coworkers) couldn't tell until I couldn't button my lab coat... like 27 or 30 weeks. I hated being pregnant until the 8th month--then I looked pregnant and felt the end in site. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232775 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:33:28 +0000 lovehoneybee 232775@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@dagret: Lol, nope, not Beverly Hills at all. We were living in Cumberland County at the time (Camp Hill, specifically). You'd think it was BH, though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232758 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:23:17 +0000 dagret 232758@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@FutureMrsMcK: yeah but you live in York County right? They DO know they live in the fattest county in the state, with the most hate groups? (I'm on the other end of the county from you.) Not exactly Beverly Hills. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232325 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:44:31 +0000 lovehoneybee 232325@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ladyfingers: @Andrea: Yeah...it's the sort of community where a Real Housewives spin-off could be shot...very privileged. The bulk of the parents were friendly, but there were a decent amount that just made me grit my teeth. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232271 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:27:44 +0000 Rescuemom10 232271@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>13 weeks myself and totally agree. Ugh! </p> <p>Wow some of these stories. Dang people can be rude. WOW!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232268 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:26:07 +0000 Andrea 232268@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@FutureMrsMcK: omg, I missed your comment. That is so bitchy! </p> <p>@Adira: I was really bloated in the beginning, too. It should start to go away in a few weeks! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232263 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:24:12 +0000 ladyfingers 232263@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@FutureMrsMcK: OMG what?!?! People are BITCHES. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232261 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:21:25 +0000 Adira 232261@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh my gosh, I HATE this feeling! I'm soooooo bloated - I can't wait until I actually have a big pregnant belly!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232195 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:01:36 +0000 PrincessBaby 232195@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>To those who are "looking for it", especially when I wear tight tanks on the weekends, I look preg....But even to them (and me!) I still kind of look like I just eat a lot of pizza:) My last bump pic my dad said it looked like I had bad gas. Not a baby. Thanks, Dad!</p> <p>I can't wait to be in-your-face preg! Especially in my work dresses, which just kind of make me look chubbers:) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232188 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:58:36 +0000 mrsjyw 232188@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>HATED that feeling. thank goodness i've finally popped! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232186 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:58:17 +0000 Andrea 232186@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@chopsuey119: dang gym people - targeting "fat" people!! LOL!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232177 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:55:10 +0000 lovehoneybee 232177@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ha, yes! I used to pick my niece up from school, and would always get side-eyed by the mothers there. At the end of year carnival, two of them came up and actually asked if I really wanted that Rita's Water Ice I was buying, because my waistline didn't! How rude! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232169 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:53:04 +0000 chopsuey 232169@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea: omg! i haven't been to the gym forever since i cancelled my membership after LO was born.. but! </p> <p>I went at around 6 weeks pp and a guy came up to me and asked if I wanted to buy meal replacement/diet shakes! HAHA.</p> <p>I just had a baby and I'm nursing! -.- </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232160 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:48:07 +0000 ladyfingers 232160@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've started wearing tighter maternity shirts even though we haven't announced yet. I'm 12w2d and I at least would like strangers to realize I'm pregnant. I feel like it's obvious when I accentuate rather than try to hide it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232070 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:12:25 +0000 wheres_c 232070@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes!<br /> I'm 20 weeks - so almost half way and the only people that know are the people I've told.<br /> My boss mentioned my pregnancy in passing today to one of our company execs and he seemed surprised I was so far along.<br /> When oh when will I start showing properly? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232066 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:10:37 +0000 photojane 232066@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>As a fat person, I can testify. I normally do the opposite of draw attention! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232060 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:08:33 +0000 Andrea 232060@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@photojane: yeah, most people generally wouldn't want to draw attention to their bellies, if they have one! LOL. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232055 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:06:50 +0000 photojane 232055@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea: hey, i figure most fat people just don't rub or touch their belly, so it's gotta be some sort of sign that it's not all fat. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232050 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:04:13 +0000 Andrea 232050@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@photojane: haha, I need to start doing that!</p> <p>@sloaneandpuffy: sheesh. good thing you were in church eh? :-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232016 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:36:05 +0000 tororojo 232016@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am starting to feel your pain--almost 9 weeks in and have started being selective in which clothes I wear. Almost all of my t-shirts are pretty fitted across the tummy, and now that I've got a little pooch going on, they're not very flattering and I feel chunky! Have been wearing lots of knit skirts and dresses! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-may-just-look-fat-but-i-am-pregnant#post-232015 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:35:35 +0000 mamimami 232015@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>haha, at church this lady actually told me "oh you're pregnant? I thought you were just plump." LOL. seriously Mexicans have no qualms about commenting on your appearance. </p>