One of first timers is 66 days pregnant and does not have a bump. I know she is pregnant because I was really careful to watch buck and her this time. She is acting differently and walks differently. Aspen is a relatively large girl who came from quintuplets. What is going on? How many would you say are in there? Is she just not going to show at first because it's her first time?
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Looking back at my reply, I am embarrassed that I used the word "ultrasounded". I think I verbed a noun that shouldn't have been verbed. ;-)
^ I agree with everything above. I've never seen any evidence of pregnancy at two months except for a lack of going back into heat like normal. I have had more than one doe successfully breed and not conceive. Does she have pretty obvious heat cycles? If she has and you haven't seen her cycle again, that may be an indication.
If you want to know for sure that she's pregnant, there are a few options. My favorite is blood testing, but ultrasound or radiography would work as well. I actually recently wrote a blog post that goes over the pros and cons of all the basic methods of detection. If you would like to read it, I'll link it here.
When you say bump, do you mean stomach or udder? In any case, I wouldn't expect to see anything at 2 months. I have only thought a goat looked pregnant at two months four times -- in each case, the doe had quintuplets ... yes, FIVE. So, you don't WANT to see anything at two months. You won't see an udder until a month before the due date.
And ditto on everything Julianne said.
It's not uncommon for them not to show till the last few weeks of pregnancy. A better indicator is the development of an udder, which also may not occur till the last few weeks or even days.
Simply witnessing the mating is not assurance that she's pregnant. My doe was bred two separate times with successful penetration, butt-tuck, etc. and still did not conceive.
If you really need to know, I think at this stage of gestation, you'd have to have her ultrasounded.