I didn't develop a baby bump during my pregnancy - I still had a flat tummy just TWO WEEKS before giving birth

A female has shared nan bizarre acquisition of enduring each nan symptoms of gestation - sans a babe bump.

Nikki Salazar, 23, recovered retired she was pregnant 2 years agone - and was looking guardant to proudly displaying her bump and wearing maternity clothing.

However, arsenic nan gestation progressed, Nikki's bump didn't turn - moreover though her babe was processing usually and appeared to beryllium healthy. 

'My expert said immoderate group show later on,' she recalled to Today. 'I didn't deliberation it would beryllium "never."'

Her expert told her not to interest because she since she is gangly - opinionated astatine 5ft9in - she whitethorn not show arsenic overmuch arsenic different women.

However, nan mom-of-one admits was still tense astir her unborn baby. 

Nikki - who wore harvest tops passim her full gestation - documented her gestation on TikTok, pinch viewers stunned by really level her tummy was.

'At 8 months, I conscionable looked bloated,' she recalled. 'What gave maine reassurance were nan ultrasound appointments, because I could spot my son, and erstwhile I felt him footwear astatine six months.'

'People opportunity I was lucky... but I consciousness for illustration I missed a large portion of nan experience,' she admits.

'That portion is simply a small sad — I wanted a babe bump,' she added wistfully.

While she didn't look pregnant, Nikki assured group she still knowledgeable different communal gestation symptoms - but conscionable didn't look for illustration she was carrying a baby.

'By nan end, I couldn't moreover locomotion because my backmost hurt,' she recalled.

'I felt truthful dense and retired of breath,' she added.

She added that immoderate group assumed she was having a cryptic gestation - since she only started sharing her travel to motherhood online successful nan 3rd trimester.

But Nikki says she knew she expecting a babe nan full time. 

Thankfully, contempt not looking pregnant, Nikki gave commencement to a patient babe boy successful July 2022.

There tin beryllium a number of reasons why personification doesn't show erstwhile they're pregnant. 

According to WebMD, every female carries weight otherwise erstwhile they're pregnant.

'If you're a larger female aliases you don't summation a batch of weight arsenic your gestation progresses, you mightiness not cognize you're pregnant,' nan website reads.

'The aforesaid is existent if you started dieting aliases moving retired early connected during your gestation – you mightiness suffer weight alternatively of gaining it.'

Pregnant bellies whitethorn not beryllium evident connected personification who carries much weight successful their abdomen. Some group do not summation overmuch weight aliases commencement to show until later.