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I don't mind showing mine off, but I'm a married adult. If I was a teen, I'd probably try to hide, lol! None of my stuff is skin tight but I have some more form fitting tops.

I think I've spent much of my adult life trying to hide any belly pooch I may have, so I am definitely not that comfortable wearing fitted stuff around my tummy. That being said, I think it's much more flattering to wear fitted tops now that I'm pregnant, so I do wear some form-fitting tops. But I don't want to buy too many because I know as soon as baby comes out, I'll want to hide the post-partum belly and fitted tops won't get worn again (at least for a very long time).
I think you're right about the old generation of thinking and seeing the bump though. It's like obscene or too in-your-face for some older people.

I usually dress to hide my tummy, so during pregnancy I showed it off. It was big and beautiful and fantastic, and I wore a ton of adorable bump showing clothing. That's a real generational thing, though. My mother said a lot of times that in her day the clothing wasn't flattering at all, just big and tent like and meant to try and hide things. I can see how a mother who was embarrassed by her teen daughter's pregnancy might disapprove of pretty much everything at Motherhood.

I prefer fitted stuff! I prefer that generally in life though, pregnant or not. I also think it's a generational thing that maternity clothes should be lose. When my MIL sees me wearing non-maternity t-shirts that are tight over the tummy, she always says "DH, you need to buy her some bigger shirts!" But um, even in an adult medium t-shirt, the shoulder area is huge on me...if I wore an XL like she seems to think I should, I would look like a shapeless cow.

I'm not pregnant, but when I was, I wore stuff that showed my bump, but a tad loose. I was pregnant in the summer, so wearing clothes that hugged me would have been really uncomfortable. I know what her mom meant though. My little cousin was pregnant and wore NO maternity clothes. Just her old clothes tight. Not flattering at all.

I like fitted maternity clothes! Sometimes I don't even like wearing a coat because I feel like I just look big and not pregnant. I think a round pregnant belly is so cute and I like that this is a time when you don't have to feel self conscious about a belly.

I think it's partly generational and partly situational with that mom and the teen daughter. My mom is always telling me how nice I look and how cute my belly is, but the first time I wore a tight shirt that showed it off, she was like 'whoa, you're really showing off that belly!' I think women of a certain age aren't used to that attitude (and clothes like that probably weren't available to them anyway.) I think that's why a lot of older women are confused by maternity photo shoots and pregnant ladies in bikinis.

I wore mostly fitted clothes. None of my clothes were tight, but I like emphasizing my bump. I wore a lot of the ruched tees from Motherhood. They are super flattering!

Fitted ! I feel like other stuff looks like a tent on me !