When I was pregnant, I would say about 90% of the time, I was rockin' my belly bump. I remember not being able to wait until I was past the "bloat" phase and into the real-deal pregnant tummy phase. I think that was one of the harder parts for me. I wanted to say to everyone who looked at my tummy region, "It's not fat! I'm pregnant!" I'm sure lots of mommies remember that awkward in-between phase. :)

Who knows how much weight she gained, I felt like crap during my first pregnancy I gained 80 pounds. I went from a size 0 before being pregnant to a size 13 directly after having my daughter. I loved that i was growing this fetus thing (joke i mean a baby...) but hated how much weight I gained, I had never been more then a 120 pounds at most so to go from being really small to feeling really, really big didn't make me feel the pregnant glow, made me feel like a cow. and that was cause I was naive about eating for 2, and thinking it would dissappear after baby was born... now expecting number 2 and exercising and controlling what i eat, just making sure it's not junk and eating for 1 with a little extra calories or few snacks, not eating for 4 or 3 or 2 like i though you should...so who knows what her situation is...

I honestly felt more beautiful while I was pregnant than any other time in my life! Granted, towards the end I was huge and my feet were so swollen that they didn't look like feet, but I still felt sooooooooo pretty. 

@XxFireXboltxX@xanga - Me too! I never felt more pretty in my life than when I was pregnant. :) I never had the swollen feet issue though. (woohoo!) I even got tons of compliments saying I look pretty pregnant, and they hated themselves when they were pregnant. I think women are gorgeous with a baby in their belly. Usually they don't want to realize it, but I do!

 Now that I already gave birth 5 months ago, I don't feel so pretty anymore. My hair is falling out (I read this can happen from 12 weeks after delivery, and I'm the unlucky one!), and I don't know when it's going to end!

@afraidoflife@xanga - Yeah, my hair fell out too. And I'm still working on making my belly not look all.....post birth anymore. LOL.

I've never had a child and i dont plan on ever having one but this situation sounds like it was an accidental pregnancy and she was just thrown into it without much research of how your body will change and how fast. I mean its natural for a person to be in d00m mode when their body turns for the worst. Activities get harder and hormones are everywhere and random things are happening to your body that you have no control over. It would be strange if she was just loud and proud pregnant with babies on each tit and naked like some amazon woman. You gotta remember. What you think is magical may be the most horrific experience to someone else. It all depends on the person.

I loved the way I looked pregnant the second time.  The first time I had preeclampsia and I was so swollen that I didn't even look like my normal self.  Some days my eyes were almost swollen shut.  With my second pregnancy I didn't have any of that.  I felt good and felt like I looked good.  It was amazing the difference between being healthy and being sick during pregnancy.  

I never felt ugly when I was pregnant.  Gross, yes.  I was sick for the first seven months, and practically lived in the bathroom.  Then for the last eight weeks I suddenly gained 65 pounds (45 of those pounds was the weight I'd lost while being sick) and I was sweaty as hell.  There was no sexy glistening, it was just a full-on, dripping, total body sweat.

@the_rocking_of_socks@xanga - I love the table!! It's my favorite part. I missed it after I gave birth the first  time. lol

I loved being pregnant. I was pretty small throughout most of it though and only gained the requisite 40 lbs, so I really didn't feel like I was that huge until the last month. Everyone kept telling me how cute I was, and even at 7-8 months pregnant, people thought I was only about 4-5 months along, so I really wasn't ever very big. My mother in law tells me that I wear pregnancy very well, and I think it's the truth. I was a cute girl with a cute baby bump, not the dumpy, sloppy woman some people envision when they think "pregnancy".

Someone said to me a long time ago that pregnant women aren't "not hot"; it's just "a different kind of hot." That resonated with me, and has stuck with me. I do think I was pretty hot as a prego, and my SO didn't seem to mind it, so I never felt unattractive or sloppy around him. I think he was in awe that we were creating this amazing little girl together. If anything, I think that made me MORE attractive to him. The whole pregnancy brought us so much closer together.

I may have felt differently if I'd put on more weight--I've known women who gained 80 lbs or more during their pregnancies, and I think I definitely would have felt less beautiful if I was one of those women. But truly, I was one of those women we love to hate--my pregnancy was perfect, my delivery was perfect, my baby is perfect and I would do it all again in a heartbeat. The whole experience has honestly been nothing short of wonderful for me.

I ate everything I wanted to when I was pregnant.  I was making a person, duh, I was hungry...

I get irritated when pregnant girls say I'm fat.  You're not fat.  You're nourishing and growing a baby inside of you.  Eat and shut up. :)

I was ecstatic to be pregnant- and loved watching my body change.  It was the first time in my life I didn't have to worry about dieting, and not minding about it.  The idea of a baby developing inside was such a miracle.  No- I never thought I looked ugly when I was pregnant.