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Why Do I Look Pregnant?

Why do I look pregnant at 4 weeks? Am I bloated? I don’t feel bloated! How do you hide your baby bump?

When I was pregnant with my son my pregnancy test didn’t show up positive for almost a week! So you can imagine how long that week was, sitting and waiting!

Once we started actually trying for number two I was a little nervous to take a home pregnancy test. I didn’t want to waste the money for it to just be negative, but I really wanted to know! Since I’m the most patient person in the world {{not}} I took it a day early and it was POSITIVE! What the? How was it positive? That was a whole week before my positive pregnancy test with my son. Who cares? I’m pregnant!!!

There were a few reason I had suspected as such:

  • I was super on edge! Anything and everything made me go from 0-60 in .2 seconds!
  • I was going to the bathroom A Lot!
  • Metallic taste in my mouth, which I also had with my son.
  • Extra bloated tummy-although I wasn’t actually uncomfortable. I just had a bulging stomach!
My stomach had seemed to be a little more pudgy than usual and I thought to myself I better be pregnant, otherwise what the freak is going on!? Then I found out I was pregnant on Tuesday {August 6} and Wednesday my stomach seriously looked like I was at least 12 weeks pregnant. No joke. Even my husband confirmed it. It went up and down the next couple days, but it was still peculiar. I’m very self conscious and demanding when it comes to the look of my stomach as it is, so trying to hide a little belly and already feeling uncomfortable in some of my jeans just wasn’t making me feel all that great.
How am I supposed to hide this from everyone for 2 more months? 
  • It’s August, so I can’t hide behind hoodies
  • If someone is actually ballsy enough to ask me if I’m pregnant what do I say? Yes, I’m 4 weeks along, thanks for asking! Because that’s not awkward, for both of us!

At least we’re not by family, they’d guess I was pregnant right away! I really don’t look like myself. 


Do I feel that way because of the society we live in? Or is it just me you ask? Honestly, I think it’s just me. Like I said I’m very demanding of myself when it comes to the way I look, and I’m definitely my own worst enemy. It’s really too bad, but it is what it is. With that being said, I don’t judge others the way I judge myself. I’m just being completely honest in telling you this, plus I don’t think I’m the only one who picks herself apart in front of the mirror… I just happen to actually be saying it.
Are you demanding of how you look?
Do you pick apart parts of your body that you know is uncalled for?
Hilary

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  • I am not really demanding of how I look, but I am also pregnant with #2 and showing a lot more quickly than I did the first time around. Everyone tells me that they don't see a bump, but I see it and so does my husband. I am definitely in that "Is she pregnant or did she just eat a big lunch?" phase.
    The Grass Skirt

    • Oh, and CoNgRaTuLaTiOnS on Baby #2... so exciting. I feel like this pregnancy will go by much faster than the first. Or so I tell myself :)

    • I heard you show earlier with #2 too, but couldn't believe I was showing the first 6 weeks!!! It was still pretty easy to hide for a while, but now there's no hope :) Now that I've told all my friends and family I have no need to hide it, and I prefer it that way.!.

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