Big belly

[ctimi16]

So I'm 3 days away from my due date and, not surprisingly, I have a big belly. As my doctor put it: you are all belly! My weight gain is good, I have never been overweight before or during the pregnancy. I have no aches or pains, I can move around really well. no complains. Still, all I can hear is people telling me how big my belly is. I started getting all these confusing questions...like how do you manage? How can you even walk? Wow, you look ready to go! Are you sure it's not twins? People talk ABOUT me while I am there and can hear them saying these things "I know, she's huge, right?". I have not paid any attention but it's starting to get me down. I am so proud to be pregnant, I love my belly and of course my baby, I feel fine, I am not struggling physically...why all the hassle? My husband's sister said she got scared when she saw a picture of me at 39 weeks.

I know I am overly emotional lately but I just wanna cry now

 

[ttc1soon]

I think people see anyone over 35 weeks and think they are HUGE. Hopefully you'll see your little bundle of joy soon and then you can forget about all the rude comments.

 

[baileybubs]

Aw Hun I think everyone goes through this, either people start saying you are too big or too small, it's very frustrating that people don't realise how upsetting they are being. I am also getting the "too big" comments, people keep saying "is it twins" or "imagine how big you'll be at full term!"
It's not very nice and I don't get why people think its ok to weigh in their opinion on the size of pregnant ladies' bumps!! I started returning the favour and found people quickly shut up. I wouldn't worry about anything though and don't let it upset you, every woman and every pregnancy is different, I have a workmate who is a few weeks behind me and she is barely showing whereas I've been massive since the beginning if the second tri!!
Just talk about other people's weight gain when they mention how big you look, they'll soon get the hint!!

 

[ctimi16]

Thank you for your comments. I am sure I will not even remember these things once baby is here. Right now, I am just shocked at how people, men women, with or without kids, seem to lose their manners and make insensitive comments about and to a pregnant mommy-to-be.

 

[Agiboma]

try to ignore them nothing wrong with a big bump

 

[Smanderson]

ctimi16 i have had these comments too, people seem to like telling me im HUGE and MASSIVE some days it really gets me down. I find it far worse when its people i dont know and i really dont understand why people think its ok i have been really shocked by how rude people are to pregnant ladies. Its been an education.

I havent really found a good way to deal with it...im usually doing the shocked face when they do it but it seems to make them repeat it all the more as if saying it again makes it better

The only thing that has cheered me up is this video, i recommend watching it as it will if nothing else make you laugh and realise having baby belly is ok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10FFcbZPfH4

im going to watch it again before i leave the house today LOL xxxx

 

[alicecooper]

I always get those sort of comments. To be fair I always get pretty huge bumps by the end. I just try and laugh them off. Water off a duck's back as it were. Nowt else you can do about it really.

 

[arlene]

I'v gone from 14st 3lbs to 15st 12lbs at 30 weeks but my weight is all boobs and bump. I posted on facebook this morning that I only have another six weeks left at work and a woman I know has commented saying "wow you must be huge now!" Eh, no!!!!! And even if I was that's not the kind of comment I'd be needing! One of my best friends calls me Tubs but she's been a friend for years and I don't mind it, after all she's only 8 weeks behind me! But some people don't think before they open their mouths!! Xx

 

[Bun87]

Aww hun - just keep thinking of your gorgeous little baby that you'll get to meet soon It gets me down when people make comments - someone emailed me the other day and was like "how are you feeling? so and so says your HUGE now?" GRRRR! I'm pregnant, I have put weight on but it doesn't seem to be anywhere apart from belly! Someone else also routinely calls me "fatty" - whilst I know they are joking and I try to ignore it, I can't help that one day soon I'm gonna blow and end up punching them in the face. Some people just don't realise how hurtful it can be - we're sensitive enough as it is without stupid comments from people! x

 

[ctimi16]

ctimi16 i have had these comments too, people seem to like telling me im HUGE and MASSIVE some days it really gets me down. I find it far worse when its people i dont know and i really dont understand why people think its ok i have been really shocked by how rude people are to pregnant ladies. Its been an education.

I havent really found a good way to deal with it...im usually doing the shocked face when they do it but it seems to make them repeat it all the more as if saying it again makes it better

The only thing that has cheered me up is this video, i recommend watching it as it will if nothing else make you laugh and realise having baby belly is ok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10FFcbZPfH4

im going to watch it again before i leave the house today LOL xxxx

This was so funny. It put me in a good mood. Thanks! I think baby likes it too cas she started wiggling around.

 

[Smanderson]

This was so funny. It put me in a good mood. Thanks! I think baby likes it too cas she started wiggling around.

Hehe glad you liked it hun hope your feeling a bit better too xxx

 

[Al Syr]

Don't mind anyone's stupid comments, I'm 28 weeks and I have heard "OMG you are so SMALL for 28 weeks" and I've also heard "oh WOW! 28 weeks? That is going to be a BIG baby!"

In my first pregnancy I had people actually argue with me 3 month before my due date that I only had a week or two to go and I would tell them "no I'm due in 3 months" yet they would stubbornly argue.

People are crazy!

 

[dollface85]

I hear conflicting comments too. Like OMG you are so tiny for 7 months to wow that baby is gonna be huge! And I am the same size now that a friend of mine is at 36 weeks, at least comparing pictures. I am all belly too but I feel like that makes ppl comment more like you are carrying a 11 pound baby!

 

[sugaree13]

if you were on the thinner side before it may just be shocking for some people. I've always been tiny so I've been getting comments since about 27/28 weeks. It bothered me until my OH pointed to where my hips are and showed me that theres suddenly a good 7 or 8 inches of extra belly protruding when you see me from the side. Its not that i'm 'fat' huge - its just more of a big ol baby bump on a tiny frame. He sees it as 'a compliment to how skinny I am'. Brownie points for OH hahaha

I love my belly and love being pregnant (for the most part ) so i'm not letting it get to me and remembering what OH said.

Take it as that - YOU arent huge, its just weird for people to see a belly on someone who never had one! (plus i really believe people dont know how to talk to pregnant people sometimes...)

 

[baileybubs]

Aww I'd love to think of it like that sugaree, I wish that were the case for me but I was never slim to begin with lol! I am very short though so I think my baby has nowhere to go but outwards and it makes me look like a weeble lol!!