![]() “The more pregnancies you have had, the more your core muscles are stretched out,” Jada Shapiro, expert doula, childbirth educator and founder of boober, tells Romper. So if you’re finding that your belly is doing a disappearing act in the a.m., it might have something to do with the fact that you’re already a mom. Try as you might, it’s very hard to make those stomach muscles taut again after your first baby is born. Here’s why: You’ve Had More Than One Baby Still, there are other reasons why your belly can appear larger at night, and tinier by morning. Instead, what is expanding (or contracting) is the skin around your stomach, which can give the illusion that your entire bump is smaller come morning. ![]() “The actual size of your uterus doesn’t grow or shrink depending on the time of the day,” says Dr. The good thing is that your pregnancy bump itself isn’t shrinking, according to Dr. But there’s a logical reason why your pregnancy bump is smaller in the mornings - a few, actually. So it can be scary when you wake up in the morning and your belly looks significantly smaller than it did before you went to bed. But when it comes to pregnancy, you only expect your bump to get bigger. It’s kind of amazing to see how your body stretches (and stretches) once you become pregnant.
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