Bloating in early pregnancy

Sorry if I seem to have a million and one questions, but this is such a helpful, friendly board. 😀

Have any of you experienced bloating in the early stages of pregnancy. I seem to be really bloated. I am 9 weeks by dates, about 7 by scan. I always have a bit of a tum anyway and I do have irritable bowel syndrome (which has been playing up, effected by the pregnancy hormones). I always attributed some my tum to my fondness of beer and cider too, but am obviously not drinking so, if anything it should be going down. 😀

I got terribly bloated and started putting on weight really quickly with Sophie, so much so that I was getting into maternity stuff by about 12 weeks! I hadn't even so much as looked at maternity wear with Jas until around 27 weeks or more (I was desperate to get into it with her being my first!) 😀

Make sure you are drinking plenty too hun to keep your system flushed out. If you're feeling too uncomfortable, have a chat to your MW.

I too had terrible bloating literally my whole pregnancy. I looked like I was around my due date the last 6 months of my pregnancy. My face was puffy and my legs were terrible. My stomach always looked like I was carrying twins! After my first child was born and I was pregnant with my second, my sister suggested I take Lemon juice in water every morning when I woke up. So I started to take a whole lemon squeezed in a glass of warm water every morning when I first got up. This was my amazing cure! It helped with my bloat and seemed to even regulate my #2 in the bathroom. Also, drinking apple juice seemed to help keep everything moving regularly and eliminated a lot of the bloating too.