On Monday, September 16, 2002, at 10:03 AM, Mirine Dye wrote:

> We found in our birthing center ( and my personal experience as well)
> that mothers that bathed baby from birth, and did not do alcohol on the
> cord, but rather just let it necrose, the cord came off around day 3 as
> opposed to 2-3 weeks with the hospital born alcohol bathed counterparts.

there's some lit on this somewhere...anyone have it handy.  babies were
divided into two groups of 250 babies (I think) each.  one group got
alcohol swabs at every diaper change.  the other group got nothing.

No infections in either group.  the 'nothing' group fell off faster.

I took the 'nothing' route.  cord fell off at 5 days and four days.

:)
katherine in atl

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