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Bleeding Umbilical Cord
Asked by L.V. from San Francisco
on August 14, 2008
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I was changing my sons diaper and noticed when he bumped his umbilical cord tie that it was bleeding. not enough blood where it was everywhere but enough to fill his l...
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- My son is 4 months old and this happened to him when his umbilical cord fell off. I was very worried, called Kaiser, had them look at it at his 2 week well baby check...
- Hello, Yes, it's normal as long as it's not excessive. Continue to clean it with a q-tip and the cleaning thing they tell you to use. I want to say peroxide, but no...
- Hello! I've been there! It is very scary at least I thought so when it happened to my daughter. My daughter was so small at 6lbs 4oz the daiper even with the notch for...
Umbilical Cord Care
Asked by B. from Cincinnati
on July 23, 2006
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I have a newborn that is 8 days old. Today, after giving her a spongebath and swabbing her umbilical cord stump this morning, I noticed that her umbilical cord stump h...
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- Congrats on your new baby! How wonderful! Just keep the U cord area real clean...inspect every time you change her. I'd bet the cord stump is real close to falling ...
- That happened to me as well, and it was so little I just waited until the next day. It had stopped then. If you feel weird about anything, I say call your pediatrician...
- my daughters bleed some right before it fell off to so I bet it is just getting ready to fall off.
Velamentous Insertion of Umbilical Cord
Asked by J.S. from New York
on April 21, 2009
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Hey all, so I wrote about Pitocin before and it's because of the above subject. First of all, has anybody delivered their baby vaginally knowing that they had a velam...
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- J., I had my healthy, 7 lb 2oz son vaginally @ 36 weeks. I'd had a positive AFP3 result and lots of sonograms that showed he was developing normally but did not detec...
- hi again, i googled this to see if it was what i had with my daughter, they never gave me a name, we never knew i had it until she was born. they said that the cord wa...
- While I am not familiar with the risks of a vaginal delivery with VCI, I unfortunately had the personal experience of having a very serious and life threatening condit...
SUA - Single Umbilical Cord Artery
Asked by C.L. from Philadelphia
on March 20, 2008
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I am 18 weeks pregnant and just had an uultrasound yesterday and found out my baby only has a one artery in the umbilical cord (when there should be two). I was told b...
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- C., What a blessing to be having a child. My second pregnancy i was diagnosed with the same cord problem .Although very scary and at some of the ultrasounds they thou...
- My dd was misdiagnosed with this. I did the research too and started freaking out. It doesn't help that they can't do anything or monitor it closer until later in th...
- One of my good friends had this same problem when she was pregnant. And everything went fine. The baby girl was born perfectly healthy weighing 5lbs 15oz. and was 2...
Umbilical Region Red
Asked by A.R. from Columbia
on April 18, 2008
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Just notice today that my 5 months old umbilical site is red and she is running fever of 100.1 rectally but the temp. could be because she is cutting teeth. Any sugges...
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- I would call the Dr to be on the safe side even though it totally could be her teeth. Good luck :)
- Go get her checked by her doctor. My nephew, and a cousin both had the same problem, and it ended up being that they had a hernia in that area. My cousin's was worse...
- I know that alot of mothers swear that cutting teeth causes a fever but according to my child doctor that is NOT the case.He said it might cause the cheeks to be red,p...
Seeking Advice from Mamas on Whether to Bank Cord Blood.
Asked by C.G. from Austin
on May 20, 2009
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I am debating on whether to bank my baby's cord blood. I am curious on how many other mamas decided for or against it. Thanks for any input you can provide:)
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- We chose not to. The cost to do it, plus the annual on-going cost to maintain it, was not economically logical for us. It made more sense to funnel that money toward...
- When we had our first child we decided against saving it due to the cost. If you can afford it why not?
- I banked our daughters cord blood. I do not agree with the health risk to the child in previous posts. We decided to use Lifebank. In your search to decide to bank ...
Bleeding in Early Pregnancy
Asked by G.B. from Kansas City
on July 6, 2010
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I am about 5 weeks pregnant and started bleeding last night. Started out as light brown spotting, then pink then red. It definitely more than spotting, but it's not ...
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- I don't want to freak you out, and I hope I'm wrong, but it sounds exactly like what happened to me when I had a miscarriage at about 5 weeks, 2 yrs ago. The nurse tol...
- I had a miscarriage with my 1st pregnancy at 5 1/2 weeks along. Sounded similar, when I got pregnant again I called the doctor immediately and asked if there was anyth...
- If your symptoms have changed since you went in, call the doctor and tell them about the changes. He'll be able to tell you what to do. If nothing's changed from...
Bleeding 11 Weeks Pregnant
Asked by L.S. from Baton Rouge
on May 16, 2010
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This pregnancy has had scare after scare... however, the baby has always been fine with a strong heart beat. At about 9 weeks pregnant, I was bleeding a lot... went to...
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- L., please call your doctor immediately if he is on call. If you can't do that I would go to Labor and Delivery if I were you. You could also call L & D and see what t...
- Hi L., This happened to me with one of my pregnancies. I started bleeding, and of course i panicked! I was pregnant with twins, so I rally had reason to worry. I we...
- I too had some bleedin amd freaked out. I went straight to my doctor and in my case it was caused by sex. They said that the area becomes so vascular so quikly that bl...
Bleeding Belly Button on 3 Week Old
Asked by J.N. from Houston
on September 29, 2008
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My son's umbilical cord stump fell off last wednesday. The friday before, it had started to bleed. I saw online that if it bled for more than 3 days, to bring him in...
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- I would stop "cleaning" it for a while, the alcohol is just disintegrating the clot/scab and preventing it from healing all the way. It sounds fine, just ask the doc ...
- Hi, you should take him into the pediatrician. Of course, there can be other causes, but my first thought could be a bleeding disorder. Hemophilia runs in my family an...
- Hi, I am a senior midwife student. Do not put alcohol on it. This will only irritate it and prevent it from completely healing up. You need to go to the healthfood ...
Baby Has Acne and Blood Still Coming from Navel
Asked by S.A. from Chicago
on June 12, 2008
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My baby was born May 16th. He lost his umbilical cord over a week ago, but I'm finding a little blood in his navel still. Before the cord fell off there was an almos...
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- The purpose of the alcohol is to dry up the area where the cord fell off so I had good luck when I really used the alcohol and got in all the nooks and crannies.
- The baby acne is NORMAL. Leave it alone. it will clear up on it's own.
- That happened with my youngest, seemed that everytime i changed her there would be dried blood everywhere. The doc told us to really get in there with alcohol and as l...
