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I’ve been pregnant 5 times, including this current pregnancy. Every time I’ve been pregnant, I start showing almost immediately. Not a ton, but enough to make my pants tight and a little bump noticeable. Now, I am not ignorant, I know that my baby is as big as a grain of rice currently and that there is no way I could be showing, but I am.
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I am currently about 6 weeks pregnant, already my yoga pants are slightly tight, just barely. They kind of feel like I just washed them and they shrunk a little, but I know better. So, what is causing this? Extra water? Fluid? Blood? I don’t know, but its there, its real.
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This is why I am always in awe when I hear that some women don’t show until they are about 5-6 months or some don’t know they are pregnant until they give birth! Ha! I pretty much start showing the minute I conceive.
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But you know what? I love it. I absolutely love being pregnant and I love the big baby belly. Its one of the things I miss the most when I am not pregnant. So maybe this initial belly growth is just to keep me happy while I’m going through some of the discomforts of the first trimester.
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Because even though I LOVE being pregnant, I haven’t always had the easiest pregnancies. With the twins I acquired a liver disorder that made me scratch the palms of my hands and soles of my feet until I bled. With Apollo the first trimester was plagued by intense right side pain, so much so that I couldn’t work and was convinced I was having an ectopic pregnancy. I also seem to carry babies so low that it feels like they are just camped out in my vagina.
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But all of that is nothing compared with the feeling I get when I see my belly growing and feel my baby squirming around inside of me. Feeling that little life inside my belly makes me forget the discomfort and fatigue.
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I’ve heard men say that they are so lucky they don’t have to be pregnant and give birth… But I don’t agree at all. I feel like the luckiest person alive because I get to nurture and carry this life inside of my body; then I get to experience the unexplainable state of euphoria you go to when giving birth peacefully.
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Pregnancy belly at 6 weeks? Hard to believe, but its there. I think that its my body and baby telling me that I’ve been blessed yet again, and to take good care. So here I am, on this familiar, but completely new road of life, trying to remember to enjoy every precious second of it.
