I was huge with baby number 2 and received many comments. it turned out that I had excess amniotic fluid and bub was actually tiny and came 2 weeks early.

That’s amazing.
I had stupid comments throughout my first pregnancy.
I was so big with my second that people were asking ‘any day now’ at 6/7 months

I was big with my son and being asked few times if I am carrying twins….was quite upsetting

People need to realise that it is not just one typical shape to a pregnant tummy.. my belly looked nothing like my sisters or other women I’d seen. Some are bigger, smaller, some carry high, others low.. I can’t go onto social media sometimes because of how people talk to eachother.

People can be so nasty these days. If they don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.

Everyone is different with their pregnancy. I tend to keep my mouth shut as know how disheartening comments can be.

Pregnant Mums all show in different ways. One Mum I knew couldn’t get people to believe she was 8 months pregnant when she had no bump showing and another Mum started getting a bump at 7 weeks pregnant. It’s all to do with where & how your baby is laying. I just hope that her back isn’t aching too much.

Every woman’s body responds and grows differently.

She is putting herself out there to be criticised and comments made that could be degrading or offensive. Looking at the size of her stomach will draw attention.

I too was quick large and I was told I looked like a beached whale , but I just took it in my stride. I was just over the moon to be pregnant. I think all that matters here is that she has a healthy happy baby.

I lost weight during pregnancy due to 24/7 morning sickness, but produced a 9lb/4 kilo baby. There was nothing funny about any of it.

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  Poor you, that must have been awful. But wow that is amazing your baby had such a healthy weight !

No, they mostly wanted to touch it, and i was also self conscious about taking any photos with my pump… .Why post on the internet though. Unfortunately most people behind their keyboards will say a lot of hurtful things.

I wouldn’t comment personally to her, but if I myself were that big with one baby I’d want my dr to check everything was okay.

I was big and had trouble and if I could fit a wheelbarrow under my stomach to help me walk. Then after I had the baby people thought I was pregnant and had to keep wearing maternity cloths for months.

She is kind of putting herself out there a little……There will always be people who respond in ways that we may feel offended. I personally wouldn’t find the comments offensive, but we’re all different.

On one hand I wanna say, if you put things on the internet you HAVE to expect people to comment. You can’t post and expect everyone to be kind and then complain when they aren’t! On the other hand there really isn’t any need for them to say what they said. I personally don’t care what people say. With my first I went from “are you sure you are pregnant?” For the first 7 months to “omg! You poor thing” at 7 months. I carried my first so very low that when I did show people thought I had dropped already. With my second there was no hiding that I was pregnant. People I just met knew before we were telling anybody. It happens. I guess maybe pregnancy hormones play a role in how we react. But honestly it’s just words that carry no weight at all

Everyone is different. Its so rude to comment on someone’s size during pregnancy. We should be focusing on support other mums, not bringing them down!

Yep, I got that my whole pregnancy; referring to how big I was. I actually gained 40kg during pregnancy but I was a small person, 58kg pre pregnancy and my babe measured two weeks ahead throughout. The constant questioning if you’re sure there’s only one type thing gets old really fast. It was only on the appointments my partner could attend with me the doctors/midwives didn’t question the due date so much. He’s 6’6 and I’m 5’8 so we aren’t small people.

so rude! why people feel they have right to comment on bump size is beyond me.Bumps can be any size, i had some pretty out there comments with mine, and it never stopped to amaze me at the self entitlement – strangers have commented on my clothes, my hair, my bump – we are all people with feelings, we arent putting ourselves out there to be commented on, we’re just going about our lives! your thoughts are yours alone, esp if theyre not kind!

Her poor back, babys all out in front make for such sore backs. My little dude was the same. All out in front and I was huge. Thankfully he ended up being quite a reasonable size.