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stinky belly button on newborn...???
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"Amy" wrote: I found a good picture he http://pregnancy.about.com/od/newbor...cordcare_5.htm I think that article's about 20 years out of date. Alcohol etc are not advised here any more. Just dig a cotton bud into the wrinkle around the stump to dry it after the bath. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is nothing worth being eager or vigorous about." Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893. |
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stinky belly button on newborn...???
"oregonchick" wrote in message ... "Amy" wrote in message ups.com... oregonchick wrote: Emily is 9 days old now. We've been taking care to keep the belly button stump dry, and watching it for any sign of problem. I started to notice today that something about her was stinky. I assumed her bottom, but realized the odor was coming from the cord stump. There is no redness or swelling, but it is starting to come off on one edge, and behind the stump it looks gooey. ICK. Should I worry? Is there something I should put on it? Does this warrant a call to the pediatrician? I can't wait for it to fall off! Using a cotton swab, gently run around the stump with some rubbing alcohol. You're going to want to GENTLY tug the stump in the opposite direction (so if you're swabbing at 12 o'clock, you're gently pulling the stump in the direction of 6 o'clock) so that you expose the yellow, cruddy, wet part that's under the brown, cruddy part. You're aiming to get the rubbing alcohol on the yellow part. Do this a couple times a day, and see if she still stinks in a couple days. If so, I'd take her in, but I'd imagine that it only stinks because it's getting ready to fall off. Amy It's so gross! You have this beautiful little baby, and then this stinky ugly stump... I remember they told me to use rubbing alcohol on my first daughter 8 yrs ago, but this time around they told me not to. I was wondering, will the rubbing alcohol sting like it does when you put it on an open wound? I gather that the rubbing alcohol has been ceased because it actually helps PRESERVE the stump and keep it on there much longer than it should be. I don't know much about stinky stumps though, and I might call my ped's office, just for the heck of it. |
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stinky belly button on newborn...???
"Amy" wrote in message oups.com... oregonchick wrote: It's so gross! You have this beautiful little baby, and then this stinky ugly stump... I know! I found it kind of sad, too... It was like the last evidence of her physical attachment to me was going away. I'm weird, though, and then I remembered that we're nursing, so she'll be physically attached, intermittently, for a while yet. LOL, I wanted to save the stump for the kid in his baby book, but the dog ate it before I had time to realize what it was when it fell out of the kids clothes. |
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stinky belly button on newborn...???
"Chookie" wrote in message ... In article .com, "Amy" wrote: I found a good picture he http://pregnancy.about.com/od/newbor...cordcare_5.htm I think that article's about 20 years out of date. Alcohol etc are not advised here any more. Just dig a cotton bud into the wrinkle around the stump to dry it after the bath. Pediatrician said NOT to give a bath until after the stump falls off. Today at 2 wk appt ped told me to go ahead and use alcohol a few times a day until it does fall off.... Go figure. |
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stinky belly button on newborn...???
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"oregonchick" wrote: I think that article's about 20 years out of date. Alcohol etc are not advised here any more. Just dig a cotton bud into the wrinkle around the stump to dry it after the bath. Pediatrician said NOT to give a bath until after the stump falls off. If your baby hasn't had a bath since he was born, he'd be VERY stinky by now! DS2 didn't have a bath until day 3 (I was hooked up to a drip) and the blood on his head was starting to smell a bit strong. Not off, but strong. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is nothing worth being eager or vigorous about." Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893. |
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stinky belly button on newborn...???
DD2 didn't have a bath until she was 2 weeks old and she didn't smell at
all. But she had had a thorough sponging -- Pip My girls : DD2 Abby - 8 weeks early now 10 months and has just learned to crawl DD1 Jasmine - 5 weeks early now 3.75 yrs Favourite saying "I'm a big girl cause I go to school Kindy" "Inside me is a skinny women screaming to get out........but I can normally keep the b*tch quiet with cookies" -- "Chookie" wrote in message ... In article , "oregonchick" wrote: I think that article's about 20 years out of date. Alcohol etc are not advised here any more. Just dig a cotton bud into the wrinkle around the stump to dry it after the bath. Pediatrician said NOT to give a bath until after the stump falls off. If your baby hasn't had a bath since he was born, he'd be VERY stinky by now! DS2 didn't have a bath until day 3 (I was hooked up to a drip) and the blood on his head was starting to smell a bit strong. Not off, but strong. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is nothing worth being eager or vigorous about." Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893. |
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stinky belly button on newborn...???
DS2 didn't have a bath until day 3 (I was hooked up to a drip) and the
blood on his head was starting to smell a bit strong. Not off, but strong. DS was given a bath not long after birth, not plunged in, but a very thorough one end, then the other. DD was not washed at all, we wiped her down as well as we could, but she was pretty gunky, so she got a bath fairly soon after we got home, I've got a picture of her it the bath with the cord still attached. Anne |
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