Belly in the first weeks of pregnancy: how it looks, swelling, when it starts to be visible
Introduction
The positive test, perhaps awaited for a long time, has arrived !
Especially if it is your first child, there will be many questions and many of these will concern the belly in the first weeks of pregnancy .
In the next lines, you can find an in-depth analysis that I have prepared for you with the answer.
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What does your belly look like in the first weeks of pregnancy?
The characteristics of the belly in the first weeks of pregnancy vary from woman to woman.
Several factors influence this, including whether or not you have had children and the level of fat tissue in the abdominal area.
During the initial weeks, your belly isn't much different than usual.
In fact, we are talking about a period right before the discovery of the wait, during which the mother can notice small changes, for example a swelling similar to that experienced during the days preceding the menstrual flow.
On this occasion, it is possible to have to deal with small blood losses , caused by the blastocyst, the stage of life that arrives immediately after the embryo, which completes its nesting in the endometrium, also involving small capillaries.
Compared to actual menstrual flow, they last less and tend to be brown or pink in colour.
When does your pregnancy belly start to show?
If the belly in the first weeks of pregnancy is, as just mentioned, not at all evident, it is natural to wonder when, more or less, it will begin to be unmistakable .
First of all, I would like to point out that every woman is unique. On average, even the thinnest women begin to see a slight belly at the beginning of the second trimester , a time chosen, also due to the explosion of physical symptoms, to reveal the sweet wait to the world.
Over the next four weeks, it will be physiological for even mothers with a slim build to gain some body weight.
So take your time and enjoy the initial weeks of your trip!