Does anyone else's ds having one? We only found out the other day that Owen has one. We knew that he had an outie but not a umbilical hernia. Any advice or comments? Will it affect him later on in life?
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Re: umbilical hernia
Our precious girl, born at 27 weeks.
Yep! DD has one...although I notice it's decreased in size over the last month....light at the end of the tunnel?
Here's my blog post about it:
https://sweetoctoberrain.blogspot.com/2011/08/umbilical-hernia.html
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Both of my kids have one.
Andrew is 2 1/2 yrs and is his still pretty big. We are told it is very very unlikely it will close at this point so we are planning on surgery in a couple of months to have it closed. We had the surgery consult and it sounds like it's pretty easy/quick/routine/fast recovery.
Many of them do self-resolve. We are hoping Elliott's self-resolves so he can avoid surgery.
They are pretty harmless, but the reason you eventually will close it if it doesn't close on its own is because there is a chance something could get stuck in it and result in an emergency surgery. Also, for aesthetics.
It's dumb but I'm feeling guilty about having Andrew's fixed. It's his comfort "thing".
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My DS had one. It went away on its own....it was so long ago that I really don't remember how old he was when it went away but I want to say he was 1 or 2. He is going to be 14 next weekend and he while he definitely has a little outtie belly button he has not had any issues whatsoever from the umbilical cord hernia.
Lemen99- My son would always play with his...lol.
Robbie had one that really didn't pop out until after he hit term. It was pretty large, but just started going away at 9 months actual and by 10 months, it was gone.
the surgeon (we had to see him for other reasons, but discussed that with him, too) was very unconcerned and said he doesn't usually seek to fix them unless they don't resolve by age FIVE.
I thought it was gross (it squished!) but in the grand scheme of things, it was NBD.
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