Isabells cord fell off at 9 days old now there is blood.

[crazymom21]

Its been two days and everytime I change her diaper her belly button has crusty blood. Its enough that I have to use several q-tips to clean it up. Her two week appt is wednesday. I've never had this problem with the other 3. Anyone else have this happen?

[Stephaniel28]

Yep, totally normal :)

[mommasbabies77]

Sounds like it might be infected or something..I don't know. Good luck hon and here's a bump for you.

[MomOfFour24]

She will be fine. Just get the dr to look at it wed.

[Trinity0820]

my dds cord fell off two or three weeks after she was born cause no one told me how to really dry it up and get it to come off. She had that and it had to be caterized... (spelling) 

[spcjones203]

Lil hydrogen peroxide Mama. And some rubbing alcohol afterwards to help get the skin to heal together. And if it gets YELLOW or GREEN crusties, head to the docs because that's an infection.

[junebug624]

This happened to my son, and it actually would bleed a teeny bit... for about 2-3 weeks.  Went to the doc and he said as long as it wasnt bleeding more, then it was fine. 

[aviatorswife]

My sons fell off and had a bit more than just a little blood. It wasn't a hole per say, but he has an outie that looked really bad and it needed more care than i could provide. His doctor put silver nitrate on it to cauterize it. I would keep an eye on it and take him in sooner if it starts looking suspicious, otherwise I'd just wait til Wednesday to have the doctor look at it.

[othermom]

That happened with my daughter. The doctor said there was ni need to use rubbing alcohol on it like I did with my first two. I did occasionally, but not the majority of the time. For the first few days after it fell off there was a little blood on her diaper where it rubbed on the belly button. I just cleaned it with alcohol and it is fine now.

[OxbAbIebxO]

Part of Sean's fell off early but there was a little piece still on and that is what his doctor put on it just to help the rest dry up more quickly. It stained his shirt he was wearing that day LOL.

Quoting aviatorswife:

My sons fell off and had a bit more than just a little blood. It wasn't a hole per say, but he has an outie that looked really bad and it needed more care than i could provide. His doctor put silver nitrate on it to cauterize it. I would keep an eye on it and take him in sooner if it starts looking suspicious, otherwise I'd just wait til Wednesday to have the doctor look at it.

[adri_nevarez]

My last daughter had this happen.  It even got yellowish discharge so I put neosporin and it completely cleared up!