Going by doctor's charts I am morbidly obese. I delivered normally with my previous children AND had no trouble finding out gender. Might I suggest bitch slapping the next person to say shit and blaming it on pregnancy hormones?
Yeah, he just seemed like a douche. There was no way that I was going to take him seriously.
Two days later, at a different hospital (and the one I ended up choosing), they were able to tell me the sex without a problem. I nearly asked them to phone up the other doctor and tell me, so I could get the last laugh.
According to my mom, when she was pregnant with my older sister (her first kid), her doctor was really obese and also had a habit of telling the pregnant women under his care that they needed to lose weight, including my mom.
That's incredibly annoying. I hope your mother and sister were lucky enough to end up with a different doctor.
Here in Japan, the doctors seem to want the babies to be as small as possible to make the birth "easier" for the mothers. The doctors often tell even people who are thin to lose some weight so that the baby is smaller. :/ Although this is anecdotal evidence and doesn't mean much in the long run, everyone I know who has given birth here has pretty much been told either to lose weight or to make sure only to gain as few kilos as possible.
That doctor also told me to start wrapping my belly to ensure that the baby doesn't get very big. When both my mother-in-law and I told him that we didn't think that was necessary, he scolded my mother-in-law by saying, "It's Japanese tradition and you should make her do it."
