How much weight difference (and belly) can there be between two pregnant women? Is it possible that between these two friends there is only one month difference in your pregnancy? Indeed, the body of each woman and the transformation she suffers with each pregnancy can be very different. Even this can happen in the same person: surely you know cases of women who do not get fat just in a pregnancy but become pregnant again and this seems to be worth two.
The image that illustrates these lines is a good example of this: two pregnant friends, barely four or five weeks apart in their pregnancy and their belly and body look totally different. In fact, we would not say that one of them is pregnant. This is the Australian fitness model and monitor Chontel Duncan, former Miss Universe aspirant. He met his friend Nat in the gym and decided show how different their pregnancies were, ensuring that they were both healthy, each in their own way.
And it is that, not only the shape of the belly in pregnancy can be very different in women, but the weight that each one will gain will depend on diverse factors and there are pregnant women who at three months can no longer hide it while for others it will take a couple more months for people to start seeing belly.
Undoubtedly, the latter is the case of Chontel Duncan, who was 21 weeks old when this photograph was taken, that is, in the fifth month, without a hint of gestation. On the other hand, her friend was six months, about 25 weeks pregnant, she would do enough that she noticed that she was waiting for a baby. Does this mean that one is healthier than the other? Well, not necessarily, provided they follow a medical check to ensure that the weight is correct and the baby is not lacking anything. We have already seen that the ideal weight in pregnancy is very variable among women and depends on many factors.
Why bellies and bodies so different?
In some later photos you can see how the athlete's belly has grown and still continues to mark abdominals (as we saw in the case of another professional fitness mom), something that can only be achieved with a lot of practice and exercise and probably very Few of our readers can say that they got throughout their pregnancy. That is, we can point out that her pregnant gut is quite exclusive or at least "rare."
The belly of the other mother of photography, as more usual. She was already the mother of two other children and from a distance it is seen that the physiognomy of each woman is very different, which is also going to be noticed in the evolution of pregnancy. One with much more weight and fat at the beginning, without the habit of exercising (but there we see it in the gym!), Probably controlling to a lesser extent the feeding ... But with the same illusion of talking about names for the baby, of the kicks and everything related to motherhood, which is what highlighted the fitness model in his comment to photography.
Both mothers would have to give birth this March, Nat at the beginning and Chontel at the end. Judging by her recent post on Instagram where she looks 38 weeks, the great moment for the athlete has not yet arrived, although she already has a belly, as we have said, and still being quite discreet compared to what we are used to by the end of the third quarter, can not be hidden.
A woman's body during pregnancy undergoes many changes, but we must bear in mind that we do not start from scratch but from our own body before pregnancy. Our own body with a body fat index, with a determined muscular development ... and our own habits. And that, along with hormones, will also mark the progress of our belly and our appearance in general.
The image of the two pregnant women so different has gone viral and the future mom has been interviewed in various media, her story has been published ... She has also raised comments from people as popular as actor Ashton Kutcher, who said we should spend more time supporting mothers and not judging them.
We add to that desire and simply ask that women take care of themselves at this stage following the advice of the gynecologist and above all leading a healthy life that makes them feel good, with a healthy diet and the practice of habitual exercise. Each one with its belly and its body, but without excesses or deficiencies.
Photos | Chontel Duncan on Instagram
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