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The umbilical cord stump is a remnant of a child’s womb life. It is formed as a result of cutting the umbilical cord during childbirth.
What is it and how is the umbilical cord stump formed?
During fetal life, the baby is connected to the mother’s placenta by an umbilical cord, through which it is supplied with blood with all nutrients and oxygen necessary for development and life. Umbilical cord it also allows the removal of metabolic products from the baby developing inside the uterus. During labor, blood circulation in umbilical cords it ceases, and when the baby is born, it must be cut umbilical cord connecting them to the mother’s body. The umbilical cord it is clamped with a special plastic clasp at a height of about 2 cm from the baby’s tummy, and then it is cut. They were created this way kikut it should be protected with a sterile and dry piece of gauze so that no bacterial infection develops around it.
What does a properly healing umbilical cord stump look like?
For several hours after giving birth umbilical cord stump it is moist and is bluish white or gray-blue in color. About a day after giving birth umbilical cord stump dries out and turns yellow-brown, then black. Its size also decreases.
Properly healing umbilical cord stump it dries up on its own and takes a dark color, there is no need to apply ointments or rub it with alcohol. Just be careful not to get any infection into the wound.
How to care for the umbilical cord stump?
Umbilical cord stump can be wiped with a preparation called octeniseptwhich is a disinfectant and prevents bacterial contamination. This is especially useful if your child is in a damp room. The most important thing when caring for it umbilical cord stump it is important to ensure that the skin on the baby’s tummy can breathe (the baby should be airy, preferably in cotton clothes) and that the navel area is dry and clean. After giving birth umbilical cord stump clamps with a special clamp – before leaving the hospital, make sure that it has been removed. When umbilical cord stump will fall off, the navel should not be red – if this is the case, it may indicate inflammation.
Before performing any beauty treatments at umbilical cord stump wash your hands thoroughly first. You should also remember to put on special diapers with a hole on the newborn for the first dozen or so days after delivery umbilical cord stump or unwind their edge to provide airflow around the navel.
When should the umbilical cord stump come off?
Usually umbilical cord stump falls out two weeks after giving birth. If the baby is premature or was born via caesarean section, it’s time to heal and fall off umbilical cord stump however, it may be longer. If umbilical cord stump does not fall off by itself within the usual two-week period, consult your doctor. However, the process of healing and falling off should not be accelerated umbilical cord stump. You just need to take special care of the hygiene of the navel area so that you do not develop a bacterial infection.
Sometimes it happens that umbilical cord stump dries properly, but does not come off even for a month. Do not tear it off then, but wait until it detaches itself from the skin.
Time to heal and fall off umbilical cord stump depends on the care the child undergoes, as well as the thickness of the umbilical cord and the skin ring surrounding the umbilical cord. A thicker and more pleated umbilical cord gives a thicker and more difficult healing kikutwhat to consider if it’s healing time umbilical cord stump takes longer. Usually, there is no need to lubricate the area around the navel with some special medications. Thicker umbilical cord stumps They lose hydration more slowly and dry out more slowly, and thus – they stay longer in the navel area.
Surrounding skin ring the umbilical cord is located between the baby’s tummy and the trailer umbilical cords – depending on the structure of the ring umbilical cord stump may separate unevenly. This can make it difficult to care for the baby’s navel area.
Some parents leave themselves dry umbilical cord stump a child as a souvenir.
What to do if the umbilical cord stump is bleeding?
If umbilical cord stump starts to bleed, it can be for a variety of reasons. In the first days of a child’s life, a few drops of blood may appear in the navel area during nursing procedures. This is not a reason to panic – you should rinse the bleeding area eighty-seven and let it dry. If, on the other hand, there is swelling in the area around the navel, and umbilical cord stump a sticky discharge oozes or if the stump gives off an unpleasant odor, consult your pediatrician as these symptoms indicate inflammation. If umbilical cord stump bleeding profusely, the cause may be a blood clotting disorder in the child. In most cases, you only need to provide umbilical cord stump air access to dry and not to create favorable conditions for the growth of bacteria (warm and humid environment).