A moms weight gain is out of control!

It's kind of scary to me that your Dr would ever say 'stop gaining' during pregnancy - the baby has to grow! You HAVE to get bigger between now and when the baby is born. Unless you're obese (which it doesn't look like), you can't replace 10lbs of fat with 10lbs of baby/fluid/blood in however many more weeks (it looks like you have 10 more weeks to go, but just guessing). Your body will grow as much as it needs to grow. As long as you take in healthy foods, the caloric number honestly should not matter right now. You need fat to feed the baby, you need nutrients for yourself and the baby. You need to gain weight.

Christ, I was actually obese while pregnant, and classified high-risk (for other reasons) and no Dr ever freaked me out about calories and dieting!

Isn't the overall range for a singleton pregnancy 25-35 lbs? (I had twins too. For a woman pg with twins starting out in the "normal" weight range, the most research-based rec was a gain of 37-54 lbs. I aimed for 40 and gained 54. :P But hey, I was in range!) I gained a pretty steady 2 lbs/wk from 12w on and did have a week (Orlando trip!) where I gained 7 lbs in a week. I agree with the first pp though. With a twin pregnancy, weight gain is especially important since it's associated with lower risk of pre-term labor, low birth weight and other things twins are at risk for so I was more focused on gaining enough than not gaining too much, but your diet and exercise habits sound VERY reasonable so either your tracking is way off or your body's just doing what it needs to do. There can be quite a bit of weight gain with extra fluids during pregnancy, too, so that may be a factor if you seem to be gaining faster than what your tracking would indicate.

I also agree that it would be wise to explain to your dr what your diet and exercise routine is and see if there might be some medical reason for the unexpected extra weight gain, just to rule out anything concerning.

When I was pregnant, I was obese and so I was careful to gain only 17 lbs because if I gained more than the healthy amount for my "obese" rating (11-20 lbs) I couldn't a waterbirth. (I didn't end up with one, but I am glad I had the option and wasn't DQ'd for my weight). My midwives were encouraging of my desire for a healthy pregnancy, but they didn't harp on me about it. I gained weight in fits and spurts -- it wasn't linear at all and the times I gained weight I couldn't have told you what, if anything, I had done differently than the weeks when I gained no weight at all.

Here are the things that concern me about your post:

1. You mentioned in another post that you didn't start showing until you were 28 weeks and in your profile picture you are definitely showing -- so is that a fairly recent pic? If so, then you do not look obese and your pregnancy gain seems proportionate to your degree of pregnancy.

2. What's your overall gain? Unless the 10 lbs and 5 lbs gains are on top of another 30 lbs already gained, this doesn't seem severe enough for your doc to be going so dramatic over it.

3. As long as your blood pressure and glucose are okay, I just don't think you should be too worried about it this late in the game. Some women put on crazy amounts of water weight while pregnant. When the baby is born, the water weight disappears too. Ask your doc to take extra glucose tests and have you come in for extra blood pressure checks if he's so worried. If there's something else on his mind, then ask him what the concern is.

I've gained 25lbs total and I am 37w right now, (and the picture is 34w). My doctor and my pregnancy weight gain calculator told me that was an accessive ammount of weight gain. I'm in the normal range for weight gain pregnancy.

are you in the military? and if so are you seeing a military doctor? If so go to a civilian doctor...if you can. I found while pregnant in the military that they were knobs and more concerned with actual military guidelines than health.

25lbs in total for a pregnancy is not bad at all...

Tell your doctor to shove it. 25-35 lbs is normal and you're almost there. Just keep eating healthy foods and a healthy amount and don't worry about the weight gain. You'll have a whole new set of worries in 3 weeks, so save your energy! ;-)

25lb gain total at the end of pregnancy...your doctor sounds like a tool bag. Unless your blood pressure is high, I wouldn't worry. Military doctors can suck with specialties, I know, my husband was in the military and I referred out to a civilian doctor every time because of their crap. You look great, 25lbs is NORMAL!!! Hope you have an easy delivery and enjoy that baby!

I actually want to punch your doctor. At 37w and only 25lbs gained? That's AWESOME! You are doing great and in the home stretch. Congratulations on your soon bundle of joy!