Spurred by Megan Markle’s pregnancy, we asked experts: Why do different women show at different times?
Meghan Markle. Photo: Samir Hussein/WireImage Spurred by the revelation that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are expecting their first child, the Cut did some research into the science behind baby bumps. Specifically: Why do baby bumps look so different on different women? In one photo I came across of two women in the same trimester, for instance, one looked hugely pregnant while the other was barely showing. My mind was blown.
Typically, baby bumps become visible in the 12 to 16 week range, because “the uterus does not leave the pelvis until after 12 weeks,” said Dr. Shannon M. Clark, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Beyond that, though, it’s hard to define a “typical” bump.
Carrying twins . Not only can women carrying multiple fetuses be “bigger at every stage in pregnancy,” Clark said, but the shape of their pregnancies “can be wider from side-to-side as well as from front-to-back.” Getting close to delivery. As a pregnancy enters the third trimester, Clark said, rather than taking on a typical “balloon shape” appearance, “the uterus can appear to be more ‘misshapen,’ due to the varying positions of the babies. Heads, butts, arms, and legs can be very pronounced!”Having a tilted uterus. “A woman who has a retroverted uterus,” Clark said, “can develop a baby bump later in the second trimester, when the uterus finally assumes a more typical position.
Most important, Garbes said, is that although “we have this idea of what a ‘normal’ pregnancy looks like,” thanks to mainstream portrayals, “that’s just not what it’s like for a lot of people.” But she understands the preoccupation: “Part of the fascination with the bump and with pregnancy in general is that it’s just very cool,” she said. Indeed it is.
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