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Is there any side effects if the umbilical cord of the newborn baby is not entirely cut?

There is a friend to a friend of mine. When he was borned, there was some kind of difficulties or something ( i'm not sure) that made the doctors to leave some part of the baby's umbilical cord. Now he is 12 years old and having a normal life as other normal kids. The umbilical cord can be felt at the navel and it looks like a red-jelly-like ( fortunately it is not getting bigger or worse). After i found out about this, i was wondering maybe now he lives a normal life but what about in the future? The 'red' i meant is blood. The left umbilical cord now contains of blood.

Public Comments

1. There can be an increased risk of infection, but not this late in life. He's just got a weirder looking scar than the rest of us. (The navel is basically just a scar.)
2. I don't know what your friend has but the umbilical cord falls off on it's own. It's only cut because when the baby is born the afterbirth, which the umbilical cord is attached to hasn't come out yet.
3. It is called having an outtie or an innie belly buttom. The umbilical cord eventually shrivels up and falls off. And sometimes a belly button goes in and sometimes it is a little popped out.
4. no they just get a outie belly button