Belly Button Appearance After Hernia and Diastasis Recti Repair?

Plastic surgeons often take great pains to make the belly button appealing as will as functional after an umbilical hernia repair and tummy tuck.
With few exceptations, patients will have an appealing looking belly button when a careful plastic surgeon is done with their procedure.
It makes it much more difficult to achieve an excellent result if the patient has had a umbilical hernia repair with mesh in which the belly button was completely cut off in order to allow a large sheet of mesh to be placed. It also makes the diastasis repair much more difficult as well.
That is why I prefer to do my own hernia repairs around the belly button.

Your belly button should be much improved as they tend to become distorted and stretched with pregnancy. If yours has remained quite normal, then it should be the goal of any great Cosmetic Surgeon to maintain the original shape, if not improve it.

It is very likely that your belly button will become smaller.
There are many different types of hernias in this location i,e, incisional , ventral, umbilical. IF you are referring to an umbilical hernia which presents looking like an "outie", correction may produce an "innie. The diastasis repair will also narrow the appearance of the base.