Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Bellybutton Woes


Here is a picture of Evan's herniated bellybutton--- aka, balloon bellybutton. Apparently this is pretty common even though I had never even heard of it. What has happened is that the umbilical chord has herniated- this should heal on it's own, if it doesn't they won't do surgery until he is a couple years old. This isn't a problem unless the intestines herniate behind it, then we have emergency surgery. But other than the bellybutton thing, he's doing great! At his 2 month weigh in he was 10lbs 2 oz and 22 inches long. Hooray! He is also a very happy baby, and very content but as HUNGRY as they come! Just barely has he slowed down where we are finally getting some longer sleep stretches during the night, thank goodness!

2 comments:

Liss said...

I can't believe how big he already is!! How did this happen??? He's so stinking cute!!!

Effie said...

haha! Don't worry about it! My brother had the same thing...and my nephew. Theirs lasted until they were each about 3.