A woman developed an umbilical hernia after pregnancy, her belly button changing from an innie to an outie. Untreated hernias can rupture and require emergency surgery. A plastic surgeon can repair it during a tummy tuck.
Even after my first baby, my skin literally looked like that. I had a hernia and the hernia was hurting. But let's talk about a hernia.
So a lot of times, and this is very common with any pregnancy, sometimes you get a hernia at the belly button. It's called umbilical hernia. And you, you know the difference because your innie is now gone and you have like an outie. And then sometimes you put your finger there and it feels like a little bubble, and that's, that's a hernia. And generally you want to get that fixed and see a doctor about that. A plastic surgeon can fix that with the tummy tuck, which is what we did.
I had had a client who in and she had a hernia like that and it had ruptured. And so she had to go to the hospital. It was like sliced up her stomach. And she was like, if it's starting to feel painful and you're already thinking about it, I would just go talk to your plastic surgeon before it gets bad. And it was something that I had always really wanted. But then having that added, almost like now it's like a medical necessity, really pushed me to go be like, I need to do it.
But that's a good warning. A lot of these things can— they can get stuck and then it becomes a medical emergency and then you're subject to like a general surgeon at the hospital at like midnight And like, who knows what you're gonna get at that point.
