What are abdominal surgeries?

Abdominal surgeries are when doctors fix problems inside your tummy by opening it up like a zipper.

Imagine you have a toy box that’s full of toys, but one day, the lid gets stuck. To get to the toys inside, you need to open the lid, that's like what happens in an abdominal surgery. Doctors use special tools to make a cut (or sometimes several small cuts) on your belly so they can look inside and fix things.

Doctors might remove something broken, like a bad toy, or they might put in something new to help everything work better, like adding a special gadget. Sometimes they sew the cut shut again, just like when you zip up your toy box after playing.

You can feel sleepy during the surgery, and then you’ll wake up feeling like someone fixed your tummy so it works just right again, no more stuck toys!