Cord stump poll

Celiarh1 · December 2009

DD's Cord stump is hanging by a thread and its sooo gross!! I want to pull it off but I know your not supposed to.. Not to mention I can tell it would bleed and maybe hurt her... I have been patiently waiting for this thing to fall off but its determined to hang on!!! How long did your LO's hang on?

Blueyedgrl · December 2009

ours held on for a month I thought he was going to go into adult hood with it..lol

pregnantchica · December 2009

that's exactly how our dd's cord was and dh just removed it (there was no way that i was going to do it)....nothing happened...no bleeding or anything. i had to clean her belly button out with a q-tip.

wnk1029 · December 2009

Wow, our little guy lost his after a week!

AJluvsLI · December 2009

I read it's okay to pull on it very gently or just move it side to side to help it loosen.

DS' fell off really soon, I odn't even think he was 2 weeks yet. There was no bleeding or anything. It fell off while he was sleeping and we never found it. I suspect it just went into the trash with a dirty diaper or something.

cerad5 · December 2009

Ours is still hanging on strong. The pedi put some medicine on it this week to help dry it up, or as she said it would hang on for another month or so.

Celiarh1 · December 2009

marisol&alan:
that's exactly how our dd's cord was and dh just removed it (there was no way that i was going to do it)....nothing happened...no bleeding or anything. i had to clean her belly button out with a q-tip.

Ok!! I just asked DH to try to get it off!

chelseybelle · December 2009

well it probably would have lasted longer but DH accidentally knocked it off at 2 weeks because it was hanging there. He literally freaked and I laughed my head off! Boys...

Tonya_G · December 2009

2 weeks- it was on during a diaper change, next thing we knew, it was gone.

Jocelyn0415 · December 2009

DD was 8 days old when her cord fell off.

laura&bobv · December 2009

FYI- Make sure you continue to clean it with a q-tip and alcohol. DD had a similar situation. At first I thought it had gotten infected because it was kind of red, but the doc said it was just irritation. Also, once the majority of it fell off there was actually still some smaller pieces underneath that we needed to continue to dry out. (hence the alcohol and q-tip)