Comments on: Josephine at ten days old

By: crazymumma

crazymumma — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:02:05 +0000

I kept them. Along with teeth and hair and letters to santa.

By: mo-wo

mo-wo — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:53:30 +0000

for two umbilical tales in one see the cheesefairy here and my comment therein.

By: pnuts mama

pnuts mama — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:34:31 +0000

oh thank god i am among kin- i totally saved the pnuts, put it in a baggie with a note of the day it was shed…the beans is up on the shelf by the changing table, waiting to be done, one of these years- poor 2nd baby syndrome! baby book undone, no time to dig out bigger sized clothes so just keep squeezing him into onesies and not snapping the crotch, sigh…

By: janet

janet — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:22:50 +0000

After reading the other comments I now feel like a freak admitting that I kept ALL THREE of my kids’ umbilical cord stumps! They are taped into their baby books, which elicits a chorus of “ewwww” every time we look through them, but then I notice that the kids look vaguely pleased that I kept them in the end.

By: magpie

magpie — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:10:44 +0000

Aw.

We thought about keeping it, because we actually have a tiny jar with cat whiskers and baby teeth in it, from cats that are no more. But we tossed the stump. Somehow, it’s not the same as hair or teeth…

By: Christy

Christy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:10:11 +0000

I saved both of my kids’ umbilical cords stumps. I know, I am totally gross. But I just couldn’t bring myself to throw them away. Both stumps are in plastic baggies in a memory box.

By: mamatulip

mamatulip — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:36:16 +0000

This mother is a sap, too.

I felt guilty tossing the cord stump as well. It wrong to keep it, but just as wrong to toss it.

By: Gillian

Gillian — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:37:18 +0000

She IS advanced. Jack was almost a month.

I feel you. I tossed it, but it ached my poor sentimental heart.

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:47:13 +0000

Oh, yes, the chord stump. My Mom was changing my Baby’s diaper when it fell off. I’ll never forget the look of guilt and apology on her face when she brought it to me like she’d done something terribly terribly wrong.

And then the guilt was mine as I threw it away. But what else do we do with these macabre pieces of our motherhood that would disgust and horrify passersby if we were to frame them or display them in our china cabinets.

In the end, I decided that it is the “idea” of being tethered to one another that I cherish and want to preserve. And gooey, meaty, belly button bits are not likely to help me achieve that. :P (Ick.)

By: bon

bon — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:12:04 +0000

oh, it was tossed…soon as i found it disconnected. i just felt…odd…doing so, yet couldn’t figure out why on earth i’d keep it, sentiment aside. :)