MAFS: Martha Kalifatidis finally starts showing a baby bump at 18 weeks pregnant

MAFS star Martha Kalifatidis finally starts showing a baby bump at 18 weeks pregnant after suffering from severe morning sickness

By Bridie Pearson-jones and Jimmy Briggs For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 04:38 BST, 27 September 2022 | Updated: 04:38 BST, 27 September 2022

Martha Kalifatidis has finally revealed her tiny baby bump at 18 weeks pregnant.

The Married At First Sight star, 34, posted a photo to Instagram on Tuesday showing her slightly rounded stomach, and revealed her baby is about the size of a capsicum.

‘An update,’ she captioned the black and white image.

Martha Kalifatidis has finally revealed her tiny baby bump at 18 weeks pregnant. The MAFS star, 34, posted this photo to Instagram on Tuesday showing her slightly rounded stomach

It comes several days after she posted a video of herself clad in a white sports bra while posing in front of a mirror, with no bump insight.

She highlighted her seemingly flat tummy from various angles and noted she hadn’t yet started to grow a baby bump.

Martha provided her followers with an up-close view of her midriff to indicate she was yet to display the physical signs associated with pregnancy.

It comes several days after she posted a video of herself clad in a white sports bra while posing in front of a mirror, with no bump insight

She highlighted her seemingly flat tummy from various angles and noted she hadn’t yet started to grow a baby bump

However, she admitted that while her size had not visibly increased, she had observed other changes to her body.

‘I definitely look wider through the middle, maybe that’s something,’ she wrote.

Last week, Martha provided frank insight into how her battle with an acute form of morning sickness had impacted her pregnancy.

Martha, who is expecting her first child with fiancé Michael Brunelli, told The Daily Telegraph that being diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum changed everything.

She said her symptoms had manifested in numerous painful ways.

Martha provided her followers with an up-close view of her midriff to indicate she was yet to display the physical signs associated with pregnancy

‘It’s like you’ve got gastro, you’re hungover and you’re on a boat. This is anything but fun,’ she said.

She explained she was diagnosed just one month into her pregnancy, which forced her and Michael to cut short their European holiday.

‘I was stuck overseas, severely dehydrated and had to get fluids regularly,’ she said.

Martha is expecting her first child with fiancé Michael Brunelli (pictured)

The couple had to cut short their European holiday after Martha became bedridden with illness

What is hyperemesis gravidarum?

Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) is a condition that causes persistent and excessive vomiting during pregnancy.

Sufferers can be sick lots of times every day and be unable to keep food or water down, impacting their daily life.

It is unlikely to harm the baby, but if it causes a women to lose weight during pregnancy there is an increased risk their baby will have a low birth weight.

It is different to sickness during pregnancy — often called morning sickness — which is normal and affects eight in 10 pregnant women. For most, this stops or improves around weeks 16 to 20.

Meanwhile, HG may not get better by this point and can last until the baby is born.

Symptoms of HG include prolonged and severe nausea and vomiting, being dehydrated, weight loss and low blood pressure.

Being dehydrated raises the risk of having a blood clot — deep vein thrombosis — but this is rare.

It is not clear what causes the condition, or why some women get it and others don’t.

Some experts think it may be linked to the changing hormones in the body that occurs during pregnancy.

And there is some evidence that it runs in families and women who suffered it during their first pregnancy are more likely to have in any subsequent pregnancies.

Women suffering from HG can be given medicine to improve their symptoms, such as anti-sickness drugs, vitamins B6 and B12 and steroids.

Some women have to be admitted to hospital if their nausea cannot be controlled with medicines at home.

They may require fluids and anti-sickness drugs to be administered through an IV.

Source: NHS

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