Good on you Rose!! You'll feel so much better knowing your Doc is on-side, and i'm sure your pregnancy will go on brillaintly with the reduction in stress that'll bring. I'm sure the c-section will go fine too, you're an old-hand at this baby-havin' lark ;-)

I'm also tall (181cm, my bmi was 29.4 at booking in, 96.4kg) but i was offered exercise classes (i already worked full-time and walked 2 miles to and 2 miles back from work 5 days a week, which i did until 34 wks! And i swam once a week which i did throughout pregnancy) a dietician and all kinds of bunk! I politely declined and said i'd see how it went. As it was i literally gained nothing until 32wks then piled 6kg on in the next 5 then avoided the scales! Because i was homebirth my last few antenatals were done at home and our bathroom scales were 3kg wonky, totally unreliable and the midwives just stopped caring. I was back at pre-pregnancy weight when she was 4 days old.

Having said that, when i recently joined my new GP practice i went for my initial physical, they weighed me (76kg, bmi 23.2 which, honestly, i'm VERY proud of because i had a baby a year ago and i took up running when she was 6 weeks old (more to avoid postnatal depression and get out my stresses through the break up with XDP than to lose weight but still...) and i now run around 30k a week, and i've not been this thin since i was 17!) and the nurse (who was about 4'0", though not thin) said "Do you want some information on weightloss?" I was so shocked! I assume since her "ideal" weight is around 50kg she thinks i am massive, not taking into account the 2 extra feet in height....grrrrrr!

Anyway, don't get me started on the medical profession and weight!

Well well well done rose for taking matters into your own hands.

Hana