Oh Linda, what an awful thing for your OB to say!

When I was PG with Jacob, I had the same concerns as you. My OB doesn't bother weighing people at all.

I remember asking him about weight gain as I was getting worried about it (I was already overweight before I fell PG) and his response was that weight gain or weight loss (since many women actually lose some weight through morning sickness) is of no significance during PG unless it is in conjunction with other things like high BP, swelling etc which are signs of pre-eclampsia. I had totally normal BP, but a lot of fluid retention - and that's what the majority of my weight gain was! I gained a total of 17.5kg and after 2w, I'd lost over 13kg of that!