We hope you'll never need to know this—but in case symptoms of a hernia ever creep up, a Cleveland Clinic surgeon reveals ...

An umbilical hernia is when abdominal tissue bulges out through an opening in the abdominal muscles around your belly button. Umbilical hernias most often occur in infants, but they can also occur ...

An umbilical hernia occurs when abdominal tissue (which includes muscles, fat, and connective tissue) bulges through an opening in the abdominal muscles around the belly button, causing pain or ...

"My son used to cry and sometimes cough at night, one day I realized a swelling on his belly button whenever ... says that an umbilical hernia is a birth defect around the umbilicus.

Narrator: Near the turn of this century ... We're talking about belly-button hernias. In the womb, the umbilical cord runs from your mom to you, passing through an opening in your abdominal ...

This may be an umbilical hernia, meaning the area around the navel sticks out because of weak muscles around the belly button. This never causes pain nor trouble, and it often goes away on its own.