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Maya 
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Posted: 13 August 2008 at 4:13pm |
Our midwife has just been for her discharge visit and Chiara's belly button is still a bit mucky. She apparently has an exposed vessel in it and my midwife thinks it will need to be quarterised which sounds nasty - they use the same stuff they use to burn off warts  
Has anyone else's bub had an exposed vessel in their belly button and if so, what did you do about it?
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Posted: 13 August 2008 at 5:55pm |
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Yep Madison had this. We just took her to the GP who used a silver stick thingy (silver nitrate i think) and rubbed it on her belly button. It didnt seem to hurt her and the stumpy bit just went grey and then fell off about a week later.
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Posted: 13 August 2008 at 7:22pm |
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Thanks for that, I was freaking out a bit coz it sounded painful, even tho my m/w assured me that there are no nerves there so it won't hurt her. I'll talk to the GP about it at her six week check next week.
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Posted: 13 August 2008 at 7:45pm |
We had the same thing with Alani. It simply didn't dry off on its own. The GP put silvernitrate on it. We had to go back for a second treatment but then it healed beautifully. She's got a very pretty tummy button now. 
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Posted: 13 August 2008 at 7:59pm |
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Keira had this, same as the others - the nurse at my GP's office used silver nitrate on it at the six week check and K didn't even blink. It went grey and came off, now she's sweet.
Another friend of mine had the same thing with her bubs earlier in the year. Funny, I'd never heard of it happening before and now everyone seems to have it happen!
I had silver nitrate used on me to burn back some hypergranulation around my tear and it did hurt a bit but that was because of where it was (ouch). It stopped hurting after about an hour and I was still able to move around and sit down etc. so wasn't horribly bad.
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Posted: 13 August 2008 at 8:17pm |
Ouch is right Mazzy! Poor you!
Glad to hear it's relatively common! I tried to google it but when I googled umbilical quarterisation all I got was articles on vesicle quarterisation/vasectomies!
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Posted: 15 August 2008 at 10:16am |
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Noah had this done to and I was scared it would hurt him but he didn't seem to notice then it just fell off a few days later.
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Posted: 15 August 2008 at 11:00am |
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Isla still has this! We have used silver nitrate countless times, but it never did much. Beware that it stains everything terribly- including the durrounding skin and clothing- it doesnt come off the clothes, but will wear off skin eventually.
The only other option we were told was to use liquid nitrogen but I will not let them dot his to Isla. Isla's is still quite vascular, It still quite often bleeds a little from rubbing on clothes. Our Paed said Isla isthe oldest child hes ever known to have one, and usually they go with sliver nitrate.
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Umbilicus question re: exposed vessel
