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Bleeding belly button

keri0426keri0426 member
in July 2015 Moms
My daughter lost her cord around 2 weeks. She is now 4 weeks today and her belly button is bleeding. Anyone experience this? Of course we called our pediatrician and they had just closed.
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Re: Bleeding belly button

  • lovermyboyslovermyboys member
    Our sons took a long time to heal. His fell off about 2 weeks too, but was still like green and yucky. I put neosporin on it and it healed Perfectly! I would soak it and wipe out the yuck during bathtime and then put the neosporin on it after bath and with every diaper change it made a huge difference. Good luck!
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  • abbymessinaabbymessina member
    A little bit of dried blood is normal but if it's a lot of blood I would get it looked at because that is not normal
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  • CkorinesCkorines member
    How much blood? Our daughters did too. Just take a cotton swab with alcohol and drip it on there to dry it out.
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  • Campow83Campow83 member
    Ckorines said:

    How much blood? Our daughters did too. Just take a cotton swab with alcohol and drip it on there to dry it out.

    Same with my son! Fell off after a week. About 5 days later I noticed some blood and took alcohol to cotton ball and dabbed. I only had to do this for 3 days and it stopped. If it a lot of blood I would definitely contact doctor
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  • ktyrd007ktyrd007 member
    Our pediatrician recommends NOT putting anything on the belly button. Our daughter's cord fell of very early and it was bleeding too. We didn't do anything to it but after a week of bleeding with no healing we went in and they closed the capillaries by using a little stick. I'd say wait it out and not do anything, a little blood is normal, but if it continues go in to the pedi.
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  • keri0426keri0426 member
    Thanks everyone. It was not too much, it just freaked me out more than it should have I think. I just went to change her and it was all bloody but not too much. I will wait it out and see what happens.
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  • beccer123beccer123 member
    When LOs fell off, it left a little deep inside. Looks like a scab. I went to doc for a weight check and had doc look at it. Said it was fine but closed the capillaries with the little stick to be sure it didn't bled. Worked like a charm. If it bleeds for too long or if you have an appt coming up, have them look at it. They may do the same thing.
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