Umbilical hernia

Not much help but my sister in law still has her umbilical hernia and she’s 40. 😂 Gives her no trouble and she said she forgets it’s even there.

My son had one also, no discomfort, a doctor told me to put some breastmilk on cotton wool and dab it every time I did a nappy change. I did this and it shrivelled up and dropped out and closed up all within about a week!

My son had one. When he would cry, it would get bigger. It completely closed up by the time he was 6 months old. There is nothing you can do about it, doctors won't do anything about it either unless it is still there after their 2nd birthday.

My baby boy has one (he was born 6 weeks early). He’s 7.5 months old. It’s got a lot smaller and flatter over the past couple of months, since he’s been rolling/trying to roll and using his abdominal muscles more. It seems like it’s closing up naturally but we were told that tummy time would help. It was very large before and we had doctors comment on it, but no one would do anything about it until he was 4 years old, unless there was an issue with it (e.g. lack of blood flow).

My baby had one and it has reduced significantly now (he’s fours months) my health visitor advised that it’s not usually something that needs correcting unless it’s very prominent/causing issues until around 2 years old but it usually goes on its own