Congratulations on your new baby!!!

What others have mentioned could be useful, I just wanted to add a recent experience I had. Last year I had my fourth child and 3 weeks after birth her belly button ws still seeping blood, no matter how much I washed it and tried to dry it, it still was losing blood. We had refused vitamin K at birth, when I mentioned the bleeding to my midwife she asked us to get further checks as the bleeding could be a sign of vitamin K deficiency. They took blood and found that her Vit K levels were fine, but they found that her platelets were VERY low. We were put into hospital immediately and stayed for a few days until they started to rise and we crossed off what it could be from the list. In the end it took six months for her levels to rise to normal range. We never found out a reason why, and she is absolutely ok now (9 mths) her levels were checked again last week and it was normal.

The reason I am sharing this is because I felt something wasn't right, because of my experience with the others kids I knew what amount of loss was considered normal, this seemed to be bleeding for a long time compared to the others. Did you have VIT K given to baby at birth? I would probably take bubs to the DR if you are concerned in a few days. Perhaps book an appointment for the end of the week, you can always cancel it if you need to. I would like to reiterate that our baby ended up being fine, but her bleeding belly button lead us to find her platelet count being low, finding out was very important even though it corrected itself eventually.


I would tune into your mummy wisdom and ask if you feel like you need to go to ask anyone? Have you got a clinic nurse you could go and see in your area?