Should I take her to the hospital? I breastfed skin to skin and pulled away to see this

I would be to be on the safe side

Did her stub just fall off

Yes I think you should just in case.

That looks like old blood clean it I don’t see redness

@skysmommy04, no it fell off on Friday morning

@randie.raye, you can take her tomorrow in case just to calm your worries

@skysmommy04, you think it’d be okay to wait till the morning? I just payed her down and she’s been up and moving around all day. She’s 10 days old

Check to see if she has fever that would be sign of infection

It’s very normal for bleeding because it has to heal needs to be kept dry maybe the body heat cause a bit of moisture and maybe some friction caused a bit of bleeding but honestly it doesn’t look at all bad to me but I’m not a professional you know if you would rather go now and calm your worried than please do

this happened to my daughter! we got super scared when this happened too lol just keep it dry u can put one of those pads people use for like scrapped knees & put a onsie on her & it'll keep it dry

@skysmommy04, well I’m just a ftm and don’t know but I thought I’d get some advice this is a better picture

@babeylarissa, I try to keep it as dry as possible but maybe while we were doing skin to skin it happened.

Yea take like a cotton ball or qtip and gentle wipe it like with a bit of warm water and air dry it I totally get your worry and you’re doing the right thing.

@skysmommy04, when I wash it should I use just warm water or soap too?

to my daughter we took her onsie off & noticed blood i think we probably pulled it off but we didnt go to the hospital we just put that pad that i told u & made sure to change it every time we changed her diaper & clean it with warm water

@randie.raye, you can use a soap just make sure it’s not highly scented so it doesn’t cause irritation

no dont use soap!!

just warm water to take off the dry blood

@babeylarissa, like the square band aids?

yes those lol the ones that dont have tape around it its just like a napkin sort of thing

@babeylarissa, gauze? How does it stay

gauze pads yes just looked them up & u can use tape theres a special tape for that so it wont hurt the skin & put a onsie one her so it can stay

i think we still have the pic of how it looked too ima look for it to show u

Thank you! It’s just almost all the way healed so I’m super worried @babeylarissa,

yeah we got super freaked out i called a friend that has 3 boys and asked her

@babeylarissa,

@babeylarissa, it kind of has a weird smell now. Not bad but like comet the bathroom cleaner

thats good! just keep it dry if u dont have the gauzes dont put on a onsie as it can stick with the dry blood ☺️

dont worry about the smell it has a good color & looks like its healing fine!

@babeylarissa, thank you and I just let her sleep in a shirt kimono style it’s a bit warm and it easier to change her and nurse her. What do I do when I need to nurse her again?

just try to keep her belly button away from u if u have clothes on so any particals wont get into it because its like an open wound right now.

just treat is as a scratch when its bleeding! its like an open wound & u dont want anything getting inside so it wont get infected

@babeylarissa, okay, I usually try to nurse skin to skin

okay yeah thats fine! just after clean her belly button with warm water again! u can repeat that after every feeding until it looks like it closed and healed

@mamamariposaxo, much much better. We have kept it dry and earlier I just let her lay in her diaper since it was warm and we got to air it out