re: umbilical hernias

Quoting Maria Broughman:" it doesnt bother her and its small enough to where I can still push down on it but you can tell its there. Is it common among preemies?"

Not sure if it's really common in preemies or not, but DD was a preemie too, born at 34 weeks.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Vanilla MILFshake.:</b>" Not sure if it's really common in preemies or not, but DD was a preemie too, born at 34 weeks."</blockquote>



My baby foster sister is also a preemie born at 32 weeks.

My son was a preemie, too, born at 35 weeks.

sophie was born at 38 weeks but on her paperwork they put 37 weeks gestation for some reason

my son didnt have one but I did   it wasnt huge and they left it alone till i was 12 and it pinched my intestines then i was in the hospital for 3 days till the figured out what was wrong then i had to get emergency surgery.

Our youngest was born with one. I had an ultrasound during pregnancy where they thought she had one but the next ultrasound they said it wasn't there anymore..but she was born with one anyway. :/ They put the nitroglycerin o her belly button twice before it really had any effect. The majority of it fell off but she's almost 5 months now and still has a little bit. She is overall healthy and hernias run in our family (her dad had 3 hernias and 4 polyps removed by age 3) Her pediatrician isn't too worried about it now that most of it is gone. Good luck!

<blockquote><b>Quoting Maria Broughman:</b>" Does anybody elses little one have an umbilical hernia? If so what has your ped told you about it?"</blockquote>


I had twins and my son didn't have one but my daughter did, it didn't pop up until about 2 weeks after she was born (they were premie). Anyway it got big to the point it literally looked like a little alien popping out..my family in law kept trying to push me to get it fixed but no dr would do it cause being premie they just didn't want to risk it, which I was fine with they would have done it if we couldn't push it in and pop back out (went hard). She is 8 1/2 months old now and it's almost gone, still pops out when she's cranky but only a tad..she just has an outie of a belly button. I don't know what it's like where you live but here they will only do it if they have to but it's nothing to worry about unless it doesn't go back in  

<blockquote><b>Quoting Maria Broughman:</b>" Does anybody elses little one have an umbilical hernia? If so what has your ped told you about it?"</blockquote>


Ds wasn't a preemie but he does have an umbilical hernia, hes now 9 months when we first noticed at a few weeks old they said if it hasn't corrected itself by the time he's one he will need an op, its gone down loads but still pokes out a bit.

<blockquote><b>Quoting BrookeT:</b>" Not my LO but my baby foster sister had a huge one and an older lady we knew said to tape a penny over ... [snip!] ... work that it was just an old wives tale. We tried it anyways and it went away after about a week of having a penny taped on it."</blockquote>



My DS doc said do NOT take anything over it!

<blockquote><b>Quoting adjit8a:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting BrookeT:</b>" Not my LO but my baby foster sister had a huge ... [snip!] ... went away after about a week of having a penny taped on it."</blockquote> My DS doc said do NOT take anything over it!"</blockquote>


*tape

My second daughter had one. It was not bad enough to warrant surgery, but their was definitely a loop of intestine bulging the umbilicus out. I remember pushing it back in and hearing a crackling gurgling sound from it.

My OB told me if I was worried I could tape a quarter to the belly button to help push the hernia in. I did this a couple of times, but didn't continue because my OB assured me it would mend itself. I did constantly push the darn thing in. I made sure to help my daughter do little ab strengthening exercises also- to fully close her abdominal wall. I'm certain this helped a lot! The issue was fully resolved by the time she was a year, and she has the most noticeable innie out of all my kids.

Quoting Maria Broughman:" Does anybody elses little one have an umbilical hernia? If so what has your ped told you about it?"

Mine did when born. The doc said it wasn't bad and therefore nothing would be done. By around 4-5 months it was no longer noticeable.

Our pede said hers is so small and he sees it going away within a year.   Thanks everyone. Also her weight is now 8lbs 4.5oz she was born at 3lbs 13.7 oz so she is coming right along!