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There are people who carry two, three, four, and even more babies at once during pregnancies. But to know that and to see it are two entirely different things. A woman named Coco Hannemann who has an Instagram account dedicated to her life with triplets, before and after she gave birth, shared a video of her baby bump that people just can’t get over.
Coco’s pregnant belly looks exactly how you might expect it to. Just picture a standard baby bump with one baby inside, and then multiply that by three. So yeah, pretty large and pretty uncomfortable looking. There is no getting around the discomfort that Coco must feel with her triplet baby bump and for some people, they hadn’t seen a triplet baby bump so up close and personal before now.
Her triplet baby bump looks downright painful.
In her video, Coco shows her pregnant belly before she gave birth to her triplets. She says in the video that people often ask how three babies fit inside her stomach. Although she’s not a medical professional, and probably felt annoyed any time someone asked her an invasive question about her pregnancy, she says in her video that all three babies are “layered.” As a result, her stomach is pointing outward, almost like she is a long watermelon in there, sideways. Comfy, right?
As normal or typical as a pointed belly might be late in a pregnancy for someone carrying triplets, it’s still a sight that not many are used to. Toward the end of Coco’s pregnancy, her Instagram account, her belly got more pointy. But it didn’t start out that way. As her babies continued to grow and move around, and lose space inside of her belly, their positions resulted in her pointed baby bump.
“I’m a triplet, and just to see this makes me want to take my mom out for ice cream on me,” one user commented on Coco’s video. “Good Lord. Best of luck to your blessings.”
Another wrote, “Women’s bodies are AMAZING! Doing an incredible job, Mama!”
Not everyone was as encouraging, though. Some commented to say how “painful” or “uncomfortable” Coco looks late in her pregnancy. One man joked that he is traumatized by the image of her very large baby bump.
“I don’t understand how the skin doesn’t just split open,” someone wrote. Alright, that’s one way to look at the stretched and discolored skin at the top of the pointed baby bump.
To be clear, a bulbous or pointed baby bump is totally normal in pregnancies with multiples. Other moms with multiples have shared their own baby bump journeys on social media. All babies might be different, but the bellies they came out of were all very much stretched and altered in ways that some of us just can’t comprehend.
