I have an umbilical hernia and I hate it… I’m so self-consious and my parent don’t think it nessesary to have an oppetation but I really want one …

my daughter was 3 months premature (1 pound, 10 ounces at birth) and had a hernia (don’t remember the fancy word for it, it was 17 years ago!) that had part of her internal organs, including her ovary, fall too low (her genitals were enlarged on one side and that’s how I was able to notice it). The neonatologist in charge didn’t believe me something was wrong but I insisted on seeing a surgeon. He came in, opened her diaper and said “wow, look at this hernia! when can we schedule the surgery?”. Apparently, it was quite urgent. She had the surgery at less than 5 lbs, when she was still on extra oxygen and it took her a long time to wake up. She’s 17 now but still has scars on both sides. Hernias can be dangerous, it all depends where they form. BTW, it was at Dartmouth Medical Center in Hanover, NH. The prematurity was caused by a midwife in training who pierced my amniotic sac when doing a “routine” pap smear (in 6th month!)– I had a placenta abruption and nearly died in the process, with my doctor leaving parts of the placenta inside after birth–fortunately, my body expelled it a week later, when I was at home. We never sued the hospital. I mention it here since I’m still angry about it. Thank God our daughter is fine.

Both my brother and I were born with Epigastric Hernias!

And we both have little scars, his is higher up than mine.

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I have one and was operated on when I was almost 2 years old. It developed when I was a baby. My father likes to tell me the story about my operation.how when I was a baby it was just alittle incision. Of course I have this long ugly scar now, because it was in the late 60′s when it happened and I grew up. So if I would wear a skimpy bikini you can see it and it seems to poke over my bikini line. I hate the thing, cause it’s so ugly. I don’t know which hernia I had, but according to my father it was life threatening back then.

I noticed my son’s inguinal hernia when he was a few weeks old and he had surgery at 2 months. It was outpatient surgery and he went home about 2-3 hours after the procedure. I gave him Tylenol for one day and then nothing after that and he was completely fine. His surgeon said most kids breeze through the surgery — but I was a nervous wreck!

my DD’s umbilical hernia appeared when she was about 2 weeks old. our ped told us that it would resolve itself, but that we’d watch it. it continued to grow bigger and bigger and by her 2 month appt she referred us to a ped surgeon. he said that the opening was large enough that it wouldn’t close on it’s own and we needed to do surgery. it was really stretching out her skin and was about the width of her arm! we did surgery when she was 10 weeks old. it was 20 minutes, tops! we stayed overnight in the hospital for observation and went home the next morning (standard procedure for babies who go under). she slept most of that day, was slightly crabby for a day or two and then was fine! her little belly button looks great!

My daughter is 3 weeks old and when she was born she had a diaphragmatic hernia. Her bowels were in her chest, crowding her left lung. She had surgery at 3 days old as she couldn’t breathe on her own. Now she’s home and doing just fine. Her hernia is a very rare case in babies. Boy, we were ever scared considering none of my ultrasounds picked it up.

I was born with a hernia but it disappeared by itself when I was nearly 6 years old. It was more than 11 years ago and it hasn’t come back. I was born with cleft lip and palate too, but unfortunately is one of those things that could disappear by themselves. At least one

I was born with an umbilical hernia and it resolved on it’s own. I also didn’t know about it until my mom told me when I was a teen, LOL =)