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There’s a lot to be aware of when you’re pregnant. Changes in your body can sometimes make other rare problems pop up. One thing that likely never crossed your mind is an umbilical hernia. It’s rare, ...

The belly button — or navel — is where the umbilical cord is joined to the fetus. The umbilical cord runs from the fetus to the placenta. It supplies the fetus with nutrients and oxygen, and carries ...

When he was just three months old, Lucy Muthoni's son, who is now six years old, developed a swelling on his umbilical cord which expanded whenever he cried. "My son used to cry and sometimes cough at ...

An umbilical hernia is a condition in which part of the intestine or fat bulges out through the muscles at the belly button, where the umbilical cord is located before birth. Umbilical hernias are ...

Hernias are common and most aren’t serious, but complications can occur. A hernia is the abnormal protrusion of an organ or ...

When you do a sit-up and/or contract your abdominal muscles do you have a bulge above your belly button? It can even be present just standing or sitting. And this is not the belly fat I am talking ...

Everyone has a belly button. It’s the small fold of skin that formed in your abdomen after the umbilical cord was clipped at birth. Belly buttons can be concave (innies) or convex (outies). ‌ Most of ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I had a hernia in my belly button for 20 years that didn't bother me until two weeks ago. Then, the pain hit, and the belly button could not be pushed in. I waited until Monday to call ...

Dr. Roach: I had a hernia in my belly button for 20 years that didn’t bother me until two weeks ago. Then, the pain hit, and the belly button could not be pushed in. I waited until Monday to call the ...