painfull around my belly buton

[lucylev]

over the last few days my belly button and the area around has becoming quite painful when i touch and push slightly and I feel almost like a stretching/pulling sensation every now and again, anyone else experiencing this?

am 34 weeks

Yes and I'm only 25 weeks. It feels like my stomach muscles are starting to seperate - it's most tender right in the middle just below my belly button and I can actually feel the difference.

Hi lucylev and japhrimel I had that too, and my belly button started pushing out a bit. The mw said it was a small hernia. It got really painful and hurt to touch. It started happening around 28 weeks. I am now 38 weeks and it is much better, and has been for a while. I don't know if that means it wasn't/isn't a hernia and it was just the muscles and skin stretching - who knows?!! This is my 3rd pregnancy so maybe my tummy is telling me "That's enough!!" I hope your soreness disappears like mine. Congratulations on your pregnancy.

Yes, exactly the same and I am 34 wks too. I think it's just where the stomach muscles have separated; you can see a diamond shaped dark shadowy patch (like a bruise) over my belly button where they have come apart.

Thanks, I think it is prob just the stretching and everything going on under the skin, hopefully it will start to ease abit over the next few weeks, i have the dark shadow patch over my belly button too jacksmybaby and very promenant veins, ( fingers crossed the stretch marks don't start to appear here so far i've been lucky