PLEASE answer privately, but I have done an archives search and only found
one reference during your discussion on newborn cord care/bathing.  If
anyone has anything other than the JOGNN Nov/Dec 1998, please let me know. 
(If you have access to this article, also let me know, as I haven't  been
able to get anything other than a one-line note).  

The Public Health Nurses here are teaching much digging (with a q-tip) and
scrubbing of the DEEP area of the cord - and of course banishing the idea
of baths altogether.  My instincts tell me that good old soap and water (if
it is clean water, as one PHN mentioned terribly  infected babies' navels
in areas of Africa when she worked there for the Peace Corps) work well...

Co-bathing is, of course, impossible for over 10 days (cord must be OFF and
the area must be HEALED are the instructions now given).  I have one mom I
am sure this would have helped - now the cord is off and the question is
moot - but I still recommended it, and she is trying even as I write.

Jeanette Panchula, BSW, RN, IBCLC
Vacaville, CA
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