Hernia Update

So i went to the doctor today. my OB said that i should go to the regular doctor to have them take a look at my hernia but i had been avoiding it since i pretty much knew what they were going to say... "try not to lift anything, can't have surgery until after the baby is born, etc". well, this past week, my belly has been really hurting a lot. i have been getting these burning type pains in my upper stomach around where the hernia is so i figured i should just go in and have the doctor take a look. she checked me out and gave me good news and bad news. the good news is that my hernia is really big. this sounds like bad news, but it's actually good because when my guts come out (sorry to be so graphic) i can just push them back in. if the hernia were small and my guts came out, they would have a better chance of getting stuck and then i would need emergency surgery to have it repaired. the chances of that happening with the larger hernia are much smaller. she said that i would need to have surgery after the baby is born but i would need to wait until i got the clearance from my OB at my 6 week postpartum check up before she could refer me to the surgeon and have the surgery. that's NOT the bad news. the bad news is that she told me i can't lift anything over 5 pounds (she said 10 pounds is the absolute maximum but to avoid it) until after i had the surgery and was healed. this basically means that i can't even lift my new baby!! what the heck?? so i can feed him and hold him while sitting and i can change his diaper and stuff, but pacing around the room getting him to stop crying is off limits as is picking him up to feed him or change his diaper. i will need him to be handed to me. this is really sucky news. when she mentioned that i couldn't lift anything until after the surgery was over, i didn't even think about the baby. i just thought of moma and groceries and stuff. but then when i talked to my mom about it, she mentioned that that included the baby too. considering that moma was so big, the chances of this one weighing over ten pounds are pretty high. so I'm going to have to ask for a lot of help when dadi is at work. i really hate hate hate asking for help. i called my mother in law to see if she could some and stay with us for a few weeks after the baby is born, but she is going on a month long trip right then so she's out. i also called my niece that lives in Lancaster and she said that she could come and stay with me for awhile to help out. so that's good news. she just needs to okay it with her parents. she's such a sweetie. what 18 year old going into her senior year of high school would want to come and help out her lame-o gimpy aunt?? that should be her funnest summer ever. I'm so thankful she's so sweet. i know i can also ask the ward to help and my mom and sister could help out when they can get off work. i also know that it's going to be impossible for me to not pick up the baby. i'm going to do it. even if they say not to, i'm still going to pick him up. i don't follow rules too well. so i'm just going to have to say lots of prayers that i don't hurt myself more. i just don't see how it's possible to not pick him up for the first six weeks. that's when they need the most picking up!! this is the craziest thing ever.
anyways, that's my exciting hernia update for ya!! doesn't it sound like fun????