So I am really sorry to hear this. While I know it is good for your health not to gain too much, your amounts sound perfectly normal. I was a slim laydee before getting pregnant - I did a fitness class 2-3 times a week and enjoyed all food in moderation. At 5ft 6 I weighed 9 and a half stone. So then pregnancy. Like Mini says above, if I didn't eat I threw up. This went on until I went into labour. At times the only thing that worked was Coke. Full fat one! I would make all my usual food - veggies and stuff. Then promptly throw the whole lot up. I just hoped it would stop, but it didn't. This was my daily life. Two weeks before the baby was born I stood on the scales, I was 15 and a half stone. I nearly died. I know I put more on after that. DD was a small 5lb 2oz when born and I lost about a stone after one week. That was it! The rest came off mostly within a year, bar about that last stone and a half. Nearly 10 years later I understand a bit more about what was going on. I had another baby, similar sickness but ate Low GI food. I was pleased to put on 3 stone (only!). A doctor told me a few years ago that there was very little I could have done to stop what happened and pregnancy hormones are very powerful. I could have cried (with relief) as I hate it when people slag off mothers for gaining too much weight - and the smug ones who boast when they don't. I am now, as I was before, a fit, slim woman who doesn't sit on her arse all day and inhale pizza. But I gained a stonking amount of pregnancy weight. I wouldn't wish what happened to me on anyone. Now I have two beautiful healthy girls and none of us are overweight.