Isn't it a myth that having a small baby bump during your pregnancy means your baby will be small?

Yeah my wife had this when she was pregnant with both my son & my daughter. It depends on your frame, if you’re lean/slim with what the docs like to refer to as a long trunk, basically your abdomen, then your bump ain’t going to be huge. Used to get on her nerves too, I always said that great things come out of small packages & I was right :¬) My son weighed in at 7lbs 4oz, my daughter 7lbs 8oz.

I was the same you couldn’t tell I was pregnant from behind! I only put on about half a stone and lost it as soon as I had my daughter. She weighed 6lb 12ozone when she was born.

This isn’t a simple yes or no answer. Your OB should be getting the tape measure out pretty soon for you if she hasn’t already. If you’re too small, she’ll let you know. If the OB has concerns, you’ll get an extra few ultrasounds where they will attempt to measure the fetus by checking for the size of the skull, the thigh bones and the amount of fat between his skin and the bones in his shoulders. This isn’t very accurate. My daughter came out 2 pounds lighter than they said she would (which was a relief, because she was supposed to be over 10 pounds)

You can’t tell how big the baby will be just by measuring of the belly. Everyone carries differently—the same mom can carry differently for two different children. If you carry low, you will appear to be much bigger than you actually are, and if you carry high, you will appear much smaller. And some people grow up or even inward instead of out. This is partially why you get so many “I didn’t know I was pregnant” stories. It’s not just fat ladies who don’t know. If you carry the right way, you will barely even look pregnant even in the third trimester.

I carried very low and outward AND I’m fat. Everyone thought I was having twins or that I was “about to pop” for over three months. I’d rather have your problem.

Yes, it is a myth. I usually weigh around 95 lbs. I did not show really early with any of my 3 kids. I only gained about 20–25 lbs. with each pregnancy. They were 6 lbs 12 oz, 6 lbs and the last was a month early and weighed 5 lbs 6 oz. He would have been in the 6 lb range as well if I had carried him to term.

My sister hardly looked pregnant at 9 months and my nephew was 8 pounds and almost two feet long. So, no.

One of my friends recently had a baby. She is quite tall, but very slender and fit, so her bump was pretty small, but her child was huge. She’s 5ft 8 and her hubby is 6 ft. 2 and a little chubby. Their baby was 10 lbs.

Myth. My sister never, ever looked pregnant with her last baby (her fourth no less) and gained less than 20 pounds, but he was nearly eight pounds. I never got huge and my boys were all perfectly healthy average weights. Plus, remember you are only a little more than half way there, by the time that baby is ready to arrive odds are good that bump will quite a bit more obvious!

When I was pregnant a friend of mine was pregnant as well. At 9 months I looked like I was giving birth to twins and my son was 7lbs. My friend gave birth the same week. At 9 months she looked like she was only 5 months pregnant and she gave birth to an 8lb baby. She was my height and when she got out of the hospital she was wearing size 4 pants. It wasn’t even till the last month did she wear pregnancy clothing. It all depends on how you carry the baby and how much fluid you retain. She was very petite and had to have a c-section.
Also had another friend who weighed 85 lbs normally. At 9 months she weighed 102 lbs. Her baby was also over 8 lbs.

It was very easy to tell when my sister was pregnant. It seemed like she was showing before the EPT came back positive.

Her eldest was born at 20–22 weeks and weighed 1.5 lb at birth, his twin weighed 17 oz and didn’t survive.

Her youngest she carried to term and he weighed about 8 lbs.

My SIL is a naturally slim person. She barely showed until her 8th month, then popped out some. About a week before she gave birth, she popped out some more. My niece came out at a happy, healthy 7 lbs.

A girl at work had great muscle tone and didn’t look pregnant at all until the last month. She never wore maternity clothes, but went from a size 5 to a size 13. Her baby boy weighed over 8 lbs.

Yep. Total myth. Has a lot more to do with how your body is built than anything else.
I have hipbones that start where my ribcage ends off (I’ve heard some people call this “High waisted” or “all legs”)—so I carry my babies completely out front. I got SO sick of being asked if I was having multiples. People didn’t believe me when I told them there was just one in there.
True conversation I had at least 3 times each pregnancy:
Me: “Really – I’ve SEEN the ultrasound there’s just one.”
Complete Stranger: “Oh, sometimes they hide behind. You got at least 3 in there. Your doctor just hasn’t seen ‘em yet.”
Me: “No, really – there is just one heartbeat.”
CS: “Nah, you look bigger than X (where X is a sister, wife, some random woman they saw on a TLC program), and she had twins/triplets/quads. You got at least 3 in there.”

Conversely, I had a dear friend who never “showed” – was able to wear her regular clothes, maybe one size up in jeans all 3 of her pregnancies. She is a bit taller than me, but not heavyset…but she has a longer torso. She was constantly frustrated that no one could tell she was pregnant…she thought she was missing out on being treated extra nicely.

I told her even as big as I was each time there were men that never got up and offered me a seat on the bus when it was crowded…so she wasn’t missing ANYTHING.

@geeky_mama I think people are confused because ultrasound technology has come a long way. I constantly had people insist I had twins because of how I carried my daughter. I also had lots of people who said I couldn’t trust the ultrasounds at all.

People insisted that I’d have twins.. and they’d be boys (they said they could tell by my shape) No matter how many times I told them there was only one—and we saw “the hamburger” and not “the turtle”, They’d chuckle like they just knew those twin boys were really going to surprise me. My daughter turned out to be a girl, and there was only one of her. And these folk acted like it was all just a lucky coincidence that she matched her ultrasound.

Depends on how you are carrying your baby. I always looked preggers but less so with my second. I have a friend though who went right through until the 7th month and you would have been hard pressed to notice. She was wearing normal clothes, just loser things. Her baby was normal size.

I have a really long back and hardly showed right up to the end with both mine. I am a but chubby though! I met someone when i was 2 week off my due date and when i told him i was expecting he asked if i was about 4 months pregnant. Both mine were healthy normal weights. I think it is how your body is put together, as others have been saying.

I would keep asking about it at your appointments, just to make sure they are checking.