Belly button still protuding - 6 months post partum!

[pocketmonster]

Hi all

Thanks for reading.

I am posting for a friend - her DD is now 6 months and her once 'innie' belly button is still protruding and also feels very squidgy - as though it is full of fluid.

It sticks out at least an inch and it is really getting her down.

Has anybody else experienced this?

or does anybody know why its like this and what to do to get it to go back to normal?

Bump - anyone?

is it stuck out on one side more than the other? could possibly be a paraumbilical hernia...worth going to dr to have it checked.

Yes it is - thanks for posting I shall pass on the message.

My friend had this - hers went blackish too - hernia. Op needed.

yup, umbillical hernia

Just wanted to say you were right and it is a hernia - after I told her what you had said she went to the HV and had it confirmed.

Thanks all - Mumsnet is fab!