Hi Rose, I'm so pleased to hear that you've found a dr who sounds so much more realistic and supportive. I'd like to second what Hana said, now is not the time to be getting down on yourself, you are growing a new little life inside you and that is just amazing!

I've often heard of regional hospitals having a BMI-related cut off, but I've never really understood why, and often it seems quite an arbitrary cut off point too. I just don't understand how one hospital "can" do it and another "can't". Seems to me like their problem not yours. My last baby was delivered in a regional hospital, my BMI would've been 34 at the time, but the only time it was referred to, all I remember my Dr saying (over the phone to the hospital) "She's big, but she's also tall and she's pretty healthy" - *end of converstation*!! So this is clearly one of those areas that dr attitudes come into play.

When you think about it, the female body is designed to gain weight when we are pregnant, it's our biological conditioning, for crying out loud!

I look forward to hearing how you get on with your new dr on the 30th.
xxx