[Belu]

Hi,
My 35 weeker had a huge umbilical hernia, again as pp's have said about the size of a golf ball. Dr's said it was fine, but told us to gently press on it and you should very gently be able to make it go back in. They said to us in the event that you couldn't get it back in we were to go to emergency immediatly because it meant that it had become strangulated. This happened, DS was only around 4 months and we was screaming one morning, we couldn't figure out why, and then DH pressed his belly button and it went no where. Off to the ED and long story short, it did pop in without surgery after half hour or so.
I think that by gently pressing it in it helped, it got smaller over time and now DS is almost 6 and has a perfect innie, and has had for a long time. There is a little bit of saggy skin at the top of his belly button though.
Ask your Doctor about pressing it back in, it makes a horrible gurgling squishing sound but it never bothered DS in the slightest.

[PrincessPinkenIt]

My DD (full term) also had an umbilical hernia, it was about the size of a large grape. Our GP wasn't too concerned and said if it was still there when DD was 2 he would review it then.
She was around the age of 2 when it went.

[BronR]

Another whose ex 32 weeker had quite a large umbilical hernia. It took quite a while to resolve, over 12 months from memory but nobody was bothered about it except me cause it was gross to look at.

[SunnyGirl79]

My 30 weeker had one of these. It got quite large then literally seemed to disappear overnight, at around 6 months. Now he has an outtie belly button, but no sign of the hernia. Most of them resolve on their own so no need to be concerned.

[GreenEggJimmyJam...]

Hi, don't belong here but my two year old has an umbilical hernia, she is booked in to have it repaired in July. From what our peadiatric surgeon said if it appears before six months they generally heal on their own but if it appears and worsens after that surgery is normally used to correct it. Which in our case is true as my 8 month old had one about two months and it is now almost normal again.

[marley*and*me]

Don't belong here but my now 2.5 dd has one. She was born at 37 weeks and at that stage was the size of a tomtom marble, and is now the size of a normal marble.

We call it her turkey mark as her belly button pops out when she is full!

Never had any trouble with it and she has the cutest flat belly button that sometimes pokes out.