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I have heard that for about 6 weeks after surgery you can not lift anything over 15 lbs. I have a 1 year old and we live in a different state than my family. My husband will be able to take off about a week of work and then I will have my mom for a week and then stepmom the week after that. So I will have 3 weeks of someone being able to lift our son when needed. I'm worried I won't be able to get help for the last 3 weeks of recovery. Anyone else have to go through this?

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I have an 18 month old who is around 21 or 22lbs and only had help the first week. I have been lifting her since then when absolutely necessary ie. getting into the car or in/out of crib.

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Same here. My daughter is 1 year and about 21 lbs. Dr said not to lift her until he sees me for my post op which is next week....so for 2 weeks at least. It's so hard! Especially because she woke up today not feeling good.

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My doc told me at my 2 week check up I can lift up to 20 pounds now. I have no trouble doing that...have a dog that needs lifting up and down steps around 20 lbs.

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Thank you everyone for the advice. I'm hoping that if I have 3 weeks of help and then after that I do the minimum lifting I'll be okay. My son is 20 lbs as of now. I'll talk it over with my doctor too

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