{"id":123,"date":"2020-11-09T03:03:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T03:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drwinstonwoon.com\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2020-11-09T03:06:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T03:06:06","slug":"post-partum-hernia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drwinstonwoon.com\/blog\/post-partum-hernia\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Partum Hernia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>9<sup>th<\/sup> November 2020 &#8211; \u201cAfter giving birth, I have a lump and a bulge in my tummy!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a common complain after giving birth.\u00a0 This is especially so in mothers with big babies.\u00a0 They noticed a bulge in the abdomen when they are standing up or a protrusion through the belly button.\u00a0 This is often associated with some discomfort or pain especially when they exercise or carry heavy loads.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The medical term for this is post partum umbilical hernia.\u00a0 Other terms which people use may be diastasis recti or divarication of the rectus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The abdominal wall is made up of layers of muscles and tendon sheath.\u00a0 During pregnancy, the muscles and tendon sheath are stretched to accommodate the baby.\u00a0 After giving birth, some will recover back to normal but there are a proportion of mothers who will end up with a hernia.\u00a0 These hernias can be simple or associated with divarication of the rectus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are many techniques to repair these hernias.\u00a0 These techniques are tailored to the individual patient.\u00a0 Some considerations may be future pregnancies, size of the hernias and associated divarication.\u00a0 These surgeries can be done laparoscopically (keyhole) or in the traditional open fashion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to make an appointment to have an open discussion regarding your treatment options.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Picture shows the hernia from a laparoscopic view)<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#054d89; font-size:16px; padding-top:15px;\">\nShare this blog via:<\/p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9th November 2020 &#8211; \u201cAfter giving birth, I have a lump and a bulge in my tummy!\u201d &nbsp; This is a common complain after giving birth.\u00a0 This is especially so in mothers with big babies.\u00a0 They noticed a bulge in the abdomen when they are standing up or a protrusion through the belly button.\u00a0 This is often associated with some discomfort or&#8230; <br \/><span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drwinstonwoon.com\/blog\/post-partum-hernia\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/span><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[26,25,34,32,33],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hernia","category-uncategorized","tag-hernia-repair","tag-laparoscopic-hernia","tag-robotic-hernia","tag-umbilical-hernia","tag-ventral-hernia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drwinstonwoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drwinstonwoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drwinstonwoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drwinstonwoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drwinstonwoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.drwinstonwoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/www.drwinstonwoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drwinstonwoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drwinstonwoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drwinstonwoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drwinstonwoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}