Baby bumps!

I love pregnant belly pics! Please share them! I'm trying to lose weight before TTC, and I'm looking forward to a cute baby belly for inspiration.

If you don't mind sharing your weight as a frame of reference, that would be awesome too.

Thanks! Let's see some baby bumps!

Here I am!  This was taken this Sunday at 35 weeks pregnant.  I am 5'6 and currently around 168.  I started at 148 and am a huge gym rat even today, I teach cycle classes and still lift light weights. Remember muscle weighs more than fat so that is why my weight is high.

BUT when you are pregnant, the number on the scale is funny, 2 weeks ago I gained 4lbs in 2 weeks without changing anything.  I weighed in today and only gained a quarter of a pound and ate fourth of july food and skipped 2 days of workouts.  The big key is eating healthy, remember you are not eating for 2 and workout at least 5 days a week.  If you were not very active before you were pregnant you still need to walk.  Junk food will call your name but your baby needs nutrients to grow and get healthy, that why it is HUGE to feed them healthy foods!  Good luck!

I had my little girl 11 weeks ago but my user pic was me 40 weeks preggers, 2 days before I delivered my peanut.

My weight was 180 lbs. and I was 150 before I became pregnant and I'm 5'7.

yes!  Awesome!!  I LOVE the way pregnant women look.  Sometimes I worry that they think I am staring when I see one in public, but I can't help it.  They are just so adorable.  I'm hoping that my stomach will be flat enough by the time we concieve(next year or so?) that the baby bump will be noticable much sooner than it would right now!!

kristijschramm and aeetheri both look awesome preggers!  Do you guys feel like you look(ed) good?  One of my sister's had a baby a few years ago and she felt like she looked like an elephant.  She thought people would think she was just fat and tended to stay home as much as possible, wearing her husbands' tshirts and stretchy pants.  I thought she looked cute, but I am biased. 

I cannot wait for maternity clothes!!  I love browsing through when I go to target. 

I have a preggo pic in my gallery-  she's 11 months but I still keep it up b/c I think it's a great preggo pic!  go look!  I love baby bumps!  i was watching knocked up last night and I turned to my DH and said can we have nother one??!!  LOL.  Next year, next year!!!

I thought I looked like a blimp while pregnant so there are very few photos of me during that time. Looking back at those pictures, I realize I wasn't as big as I thought I was. I have two photos of myself while pregnant in my gallery. One was taken when I was only 14-15 weeks pregnant. The other photo was taken at roughly 30 weeks pregnant.

My big problem was that I gained weight EVERYWHERE, not just in the tummy. I think that's what made me cringe every time I looked in the mirror.

Vanessa, Julia looks like a little adult in your profile pic! I love the hair, it's fab.

thanks Bier~  You look FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!  I can't even tell you had a baby!!  I stopped going on the scale; I was losing; then gaining agin-  who knows.  But, I'm wearing a dress today that I wore a year before I was preggo and it's not tight at all!  I got hit on twice so I'll take it....LOL!!!  Inches are chaning; belly is firming......we rock!!  :)

The picture in my profile is from the 4th of July when I ran a 10K.  I'm 36 weeks tomorrow (where did the time go?) and I have other pictures from the rest of my pregnancy in my gallery.

I'm 5'6" and started at 129.  I'm currently hanging out in the 149-151 pound range.  I've run throughout my pregnancy and have mostly kept my exercise routine from before getting pregnant which has kept me sane.   Good luck on TTC!

my profile picture was taken last week I believe, so I was 34 weeks. I weigh quite a bit more than the rest of these ladies though. The last time I stepped on a scale pre pregnancy I was 206 (an all time high, I'll have to work on that after) and in the 35 weeks since then I have gained 20 pounds.

Original Post by hotfuss:

kristijschramm and aeetheri both look awesome preggers!  Do you guys feel like you look(ed) good?

I felt like I looked pretty cute until the last two weeks. When I see my userpic, i'm like, "Damn! I was huge!"

I was still hiking on the trails near my home about 3 times a week, though, even with the ginormous belly!

Also, when I was about 4 months, when you're kind of showing but not really, I felt fat then. Like, I know why my belly is bigger but almost no one else does.

I will be honest, I love it being pregnant (except for the heartburn and her kicking my ribs)! I have boobs for the first time ever which is so neat.

Every year during the summer I work out really hard and am hard on myself to look good even though I have always been athletic.  Being pregnant has really helped me.  I think I look so cute lol!  I think it is because I know she is inside me and this is the first summer I did not have to do any ab work! 

Being pregnant made me realize that I am just not a body but a woman capable of actually making another human.  I think it changed my mindset so much more from being skinny to being healthy.  I won't lie I am still vain and want to get back to normal but it is also more about being a healthy role model for her and being able to grow old with her.

Original Post by vanessa1031:

thanks Bier~  You look FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!  I can't even tell you had a baby!!  I stopped going on the scale; I was losing; then gaining agin-  who knows.  But, I'm wearing a dress today that I wore a year before I was preggo and it's not tight at all!  I got hit on twice so I'll take it....LOL!!!  Inches are chaning; belly is firming......we rock!!  :)

  Thanks, Vanessa, but I must admit, if you're looking at my profile pic, the baby is covering my problem areas!

Sounds like you're looking fab, too! Nothing better than getting hit on to boost one's ego a little.

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Original Post by vanessa1031:

thanks Bier~  You look FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!  I can't even tell you had a baby!!  I stopped going on the scale; I was losing; then gaining agin-  who knows.  But, I'm wearing a dress today that I wore a year before I was preggo and it's not tight at all!  I got hit on twice so I'll take it....LOL!!!  Inches are chaning; belly is firming......we rock!!  :)

  Thanks, Vanessa, but I must admit, if you're looking at my profile pic, the baby is covering my problem areas!

Sounds like you're looking fab, too! Nothing better than getting hit on to boost one's ego a little.

 I was looking at the pics you took of yourself in the mirror-  you look great.  I'm going to have to do mine soon too!

i just uploaded my belly pic now 11 months post-preggo.  I have a pic of my bump taken alomst exactly a year ago!  Crazy how time flies.

WOW! You can really see definition on the photo from the front. I would NEVER consider taking a photo of my bare tummy at this point. It's gross!

You look great, too, my dear!

I took down all my belly photos after being messaged by a pregophile on here!

eww!  did you report that person??

No, but I should have!! It's so gross to me that people are out there thinking perverted thoughts about pregnant women, it was the one time in my life that I actually loved my body and it wasn't a "I'm so hot" feeling at all. I know everyone is attracted to different things and all... but I guess people feel safe making nasty comments when it's just on the internet.

Your avi picture is cracking me up! Look at all that hair! Pearl has Bill Murray hair right now, the whole baby mullet thing.

Disease of ease, if you still have the PM, please report it.  We don't stand for that type of thing here, and admin can terminate the account.  I'd hate to think that person may still be messaging other members.  I received a message from a "pregophile" too (lol, that term is too funny!), and the admins handled it rather quickly.  Sorry that had to happen to you!

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Pearl is gorgeous!!!  i saw your recent pic on the journal entry. 

cecliy-  glad to know the admins work pretty quickly here.  This is the one site I acutally trust to post pics of.

It's strange-  I did feel sexy preggo at certain point-  around 7 months when I wasn't overly big but very visably pregnant.  Only on some days; when i was wearing a cute dress and I had makeup on.  LOL!  Sometimes I miss the bump.  But I'm trying soooooo hard to get my body back in shape-  every day; at the gym over my lunch hour at work; plus a walk with her when I get home; eating only whole carbs 2-3 days a week-  it is so hard.  7 weeks I dorpped 6.5 pounds; I should feel greatful; but in my preg-preggo state in 7 weeks I would have dropped double that.  I'm feeling a bit better about my body since I've added weights into the mix; b/c I'm starting to see real tone in my back, abs and arms.  ce la vie.  I'm just going to keep at it.  When it's time for my second; I know I will do things slightly different; b/c it is so true that only 300 cals extra per day is needed when pregnant....not 700!!!!!!!!  or 1000!!  (especially from the entemanns box......while driving home......from a craving spree.....)