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How can an overweight woman feel her belly to tell if she's pregnant to tell the baby from the fat early on?

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Pregnancy Test: Take a urine pregnancy test. If you really want to know, ask your doctor for a serum pregnancy test.

Dr Chuu agreed

Answered 11/27/2017

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Gravid: Before an obese woman would be able to feel a fetus in her abdomen, it would have to achieve a significant size. In such women a pregnancy test is the only way to determine pregnancy early.

Answered 7/27/2018

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