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I hated that phase...It lasted until about 24 weeks, then I think I became visibly pregnant to everyone (before that I looked pregnant to friends/family, but not necessarily strangers).

YES. i try to rest my hand on my belly in public, so that people recognize it's a baby and not ALL fat.

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!

@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.

As a fat person, I can testify. I normally do the opposite of draw attention!

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.

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!

HATED that feeling. thank goodness i've finally popped!

Oh my gosh, I HATE this feeling! I'm soooooo bloated - I can't wait until I actually have a big pregnant belly!!!

@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.

@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!

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.

Post a belly shot and I'm sure we'll see a cutie bumpie!

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.

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!"