Bye, Bye Stumpy

Well its official, his umbilical cord stump has fallen off! Finally. The doctors had us a little worried, but its all good now. The docs early on told us to put alcohol on his cord after every diaper change, so we did, religiously. Then two months later when the ugly thing was still on there the pediatrician said stop putting alcohol on because it might be killing the good bacteria that eats the dead cord away (that was 10 days ago). Then our next consult was with the pediatric surgeon who told us that he didn't want to remove the cord but we should be putting alcohol on there once a day. 3 days later and the cord issue is over. Hopefully.

I put a few new pics on Flickr if you want to see some from this week.

If you want to see what he looks like without the cord, scroll down a little. But don't go too far unless you want to be grossed out. Click on the pic for a better look.





















Okay, if you are strong stomached and want to see the close up, scroll down. Click on it if you dare.