“Noticeable” mainly as in, “when does the belly become big enough to for people to notice it’s pregnancy and not just being fat”. Any further insight from anyone who has been pregnant would be welcome.
Less than a year.
Paramedic here with specialised delivery training. Delivered around 30 babies probably. Saw a high three digit number of pregnant patients.
You can’t reliable say that. Until you see the kid.
And I don’t mean the cases were the mother is blocking out the pregnancy mentally until she is crowning. (But tbh, it’s one of the most cherised moment of everyone in my profession if you have the “I am not pregnant,you idiot!” “Ma’am, I literally can see the hair of your baby coming out…oh and here’s the rest of the bub”-discussion)
I literally had a aquaintance not recognise her pregnancy (and she had been pregnant before) until she went to hospital for stomach pain. I saw her the weekend before and did not recognise the pregnancy. And,yes, the baby was full term. Happens, especially if the uterus is not in its usual place.
In other people you see it after 8 weeks (and well,it is often not the belly that is the first indicator which grows suddenly).
Other people look like "13 months pregnant with triplets"at the beginning of their second trimester.
Anyway: What is the reason for your question? (And: If you or anyone needs support in that case write me a messge. More than happy to guide you in the right direction if you are in a tight spot.)
That really depends a lot on body shape. You surely heard about women who repressed any thought of pregnancy and nobody else did notice either. Apart from that I’d say 20 weeks.
My mom told me when she had me, she told people that she was was just getting fatter so people didn’t suspect she is having a second child…
And she had to quit work as it got later into the pregnancy…
Somehow I lived… 🤷♂️
(Context: China, One Child Policy)
Do you have any idea of at which point she quit work, like how many months/weeks into it?
She said she had to quit work like somewhere between 1-2 months before my expected birth.
Actually she said the management for the company she worked at found out, but sort of just decided like “turn one eye blind” and didn’t really report it so I got lucky…
Mom constandly tells me about women that get taken to hospitals for forced abortions…
And she tells me to “be grateful” for being alive…
And I sort of have an existential crisis over this…
She was supposed get checked for pregnancy every 3 months, but she told me she told another woman to do the exams in her name so they never found out about my existence until it’s too late.
TLDR: Basically she got away with it for like 7 months or so before the management at her work started to notice its a pregnancy. I don’t know if the average bystander even know or maybe assume its the first pregnancy or just didn’t care, idk if her coworkers knew, but I don’t think people would dig deep into other’s bussiness unless they really like snitching.
I once knew a woman who only noticed she was pregnant when she gave birth. One night she had some belly ache. Next thing she knows, she was suddenly a mother. In her own words: she was pretty sturdily built.
As a cis man, I feel like I would notice if I became pregnant pretty quickly.
That’d a great disguise to hide the fact that you’re an ass assassin
If this is your first pregnancy, usually around 5 months it becomes impossible to hide. If you want to show, however, you can wear clothes that make it more obvious and show around month 3.
Noticed my wife was pregnant after 5 months of her not telling me. Was unable to talk that down a belly fat that day.
Now I can see much earlier because you know the signs. Signs are mostly bigger fuller boobs generally more vibrant colors in cheeks, hair, lips etc.
I’m glad you’re married but I’m concerned it was kept a secret. I guess if there’s a personal/family history of miscarriages, someone might want to hold the news in…
Not married per we, but yes that should have been my first red flag.
4-5 months, depending on body shape and clothing style
There is really no general answer to this that applies in all cases. It depends on a lot of factors, including what body shape and size you have normally, and what kind of clothes you’re willing to/normally wear, and who you’re hoping to hide it from, and how far you’re willing/able to go to try to hide it. There are always ways to hide it if you’re willing to go to extremes, in Victorian times people would just head off to some remote country estate and allow no visitors until the baby was born and they were ready to “return to society”. Of course that kind of pattern of unusual behavior can also reinforce any suspicions, so it’s always going to depend on who exactly you’re trying to hide it from and how much they already know about you or how much they might suspect that you’re pregnant.
A casual stranger on the street who has no context about who you are or what you looked like before your pregnancy and only encounters you a single time might have a much tougher time ever confidently identifying you as “pregnant” beyond a reasonable doubt unless it’s really obvious and it’s not always going to be obvious for everyone with every body type even in the late stages of pregnancy, it may not even occur to them. On the other extreme, if you’re living with and trying to hide it from your mom, or your partner, or even a close friend, and they’re vigilant for the possibility that you might be pregnant and are paying careful attention? Good luck, they’re going to figure it out sooner or later and probably a lot sooner than anyone else because they have so much familiarity with you as a person, and even your habits and behaviors, and they might even start noticing some changes intuitively even if they aren’t visibly obvious, including changes that you might not even have noticed yourself. And that just snowballs into more careful attention and analysis until they figure out what is probably going on with you. Sometimes they might even know or suspect it before you do. It happens.
It depends on the person. Rarely it doesn’t even show at all.
About 20-25 weeks in, depending on body shape.
The smaller you are, the faster people will notice.
belly become big enough to for people to notice it’s pregnancy
The shape of the belly is not the only thing that people notice. Especially people who know the woman can see it earlier, and people who look closely and know the signs.
Depends on the girl and the number of babies you’ve had. If you’re on your 4th baby people will be able to tell sooner than your first.
For your first baby, generally it’s unnoticeable for everyone in the first trimester including the mom. Second trimester is probably pretty safe too, this is when you might start looking a little fat by the end, but not really pregnant. Third trimester is when the majority of the weight is gained, and the baby grows the fastest. In the last month of the third trimester the baby gains like a pound per week.
