inguinal hernia

Jacalyn
we took out 15 wk old baby boy to the doctor yesterday in hopes of finding out why his right testicles balloons up sometimes. the doctor thinks it may be a inguinal hernia..so we are being sent to a pediatric surgeon in another city for a consultation. this is hereditary. my husbands brother and nephew had it also. 
if you have a son that went through this kind of hernia, what did you end up doing?