Update - Saw OB Yesterday

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I saw my OB yesterday and I truly think I made his day. My Mom is in town so

she joined my husband and I at the appointment. I didn't need to go to the

bathroom when I first got there so I was drinking and going to leave my specimen

at the end of the appointment. As the three of us were in the room waiting for

my doc we were all making jokes saying that my Mom should leave the specimen,

and then joking that we should really confuse the nurses by having my husband

leave the specimen. We were all laughing so loud that I guess you could hear us

out in the hall because my doc opened the door and peaked in, giving us this

look like, " Is there a party going on in here? " We then told him why we were

all laughing so hard and he got a huge kick out our joke. LOL! On another note

I showed him my tummy where all you awesome ladies advised me was a hernia and

not some alien twin to my beautiful baby. LOL! He said yep, it sure was a

hernia and a substantial on at that. He said that obviously we can't do

anything about it right now and he thinks that it will have to be repaired with

mesh and he knows just the surgeon who does WLS he wants to refer me too. I

told him of the concerns my husband and I had, one being that this thing is

going to majorly pop out while I'm delivering this baby since it really pops out

when I bear down. I spoke to him about my physical therapist recommending

binders and he said that would definitely be an option and all the particulars

would be worked out with his surgeon college. I guess after the first of the

year I will get all the particulars for the referral to the surgeon and get a

game plan in place. I told my OB that my main goal is to try to keep the hernia

from getting worse, which he said is probably not going to be an option, and

that since I'm not feeling any pain I would like to keep it that way. He

didn't really have an answer to that one way or another? So....what do you

ladies think are my chances of this hernia starting to be a major problem? I

have never had a hernia so I have had no experience with this. Until I see the

surgeon do you think I should be doing anything special? I have been pressing

on it and kinda holding it into place when I have been going to the bathroom

just in case but I have no clue if this has been helping or not. Any and all

advice would be appreciated.

Axelrod