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Why your baby's bulging belly button could be a hernia

Types of hernia. [iStockphoto]

When he was just three months old, Lucy Muthoni's son, who is now six years old, developed a swelling on his umbilical cord which expanded whenever he cried.

"My son used to cry and sometimes cough at night, one day I realized a swelling on his belly button whenever he cried and coughed," Muthoni explains.

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