A pregnant woman has explained why people might not be able to see her baby bump.
Yiota Kouzoukas is six-months-pregnant, but she is often told that her body doesn’t look that way.
The mum-to-be says that she has receives a lot of comments and direct messages about the size of her baby bump.
Yiota says these comments do not upset her, but that she just wanted to clear up a few things about the reason behind her small baby bump.
Yiota has what is called a retroverted or tilted uterus.
In an Instagram post, she explains that this meant that during the first four months of her pregnancy, her uterus was growing inward instead of outward like most women’s.
“My uterus didn’t “flip forward” until well into being 4 months pregnant because of the backwards tilted position paired with decade old endometriosis scarring that I have on my uterosacral ligaments.
“Basically, these ligaments are acting like anchors keeping my uterus “inside” rather than “outside”, which is why I appeared smaller than most people for the first 4 or 5 months.”
Yiota explains that now that she is into the sixth month of her pregnancy, the scarring on her ligaments has started to break down and her uterus has started to grow outwards.
She also says that she has been told to stop all ab-related exercises because of her condition, but that she is “perfectly healthy.”
“My torso is also short and my stomach is naturally toned which is keeping my belly super tight, so I’ve had to personally stop all ab exercises to avoid any issues with possible ab separation.
“Our bodies and bumps are all different and our shapes and sizes are all different too.”
