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The care for new born baby's umbilical cord should be an obvious ritual for all new parents. Or should it? Actually it is not that obvious, at least going by the many questions I receive from new mothers.
During pregnancy, the umbilical cord supplies nutrients and oxygen to your developing baby. After birth, the umbilical cord is no longer needed, so it's clamped and snipped leaving behind a stump. The umbilical cord stump will change from yellowish green to brown to black as it dries out and eventually falls off, usually within about two weeks after birth.
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