Whatcha gonna do with all that stump, all that stump

Ok, I just laughed so hard at this post. With our first we were super paranoid about the stump, watching it, talking about it, watching it some more. When it did fall off we threw it out as WTF else were we going to do with it. I almost peed my pants at the your shadow box idea! With our second we literally paid no attention until one day about 10 days after she was born we both noticed that it had fallen off at some point and we had no idea! Bad parents to a poor little second child! Anyways, for about a day we thought that maybe the cat had run off with it and then I think we found it in her room somewhere. You just brought back one of my funniest memories of the early days with baby the sequel, so thanks!

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We actually kept Owen's (in a wee little plastic baggie) ONLY because before he was born, my husband bought me this book (I can't remember the actual title, but it's something like "The gross baby book", subversive humor at it's newborn finest) and there is actually a spot (a little envelope built into the book) for something gross from the baby's first year and we just figured that his little stump fit the bill.

All I can say is that it least it wasn't his foreskin :).

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You freaking crack me up!

But I must admonish you for now I will spend the whole day with "whatcha gonna do with all that stump" playing repeatedly in my head!!!!

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you are all cracking me up!!! I was so grossed out by my daughter's stumps that I made my husband throw them away. he actually suggested to me that I save the baby's stump in her baby book and I clutched my prized vintage looking beatrix potter baby book and ran away from him :D
yuck! but the gross baby book does sound funny! just not something I would personally want

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My daughter's stump fell off as I was changing her diaper in a make-your-own pottery shop. We were doing up pieces with her hand and foot prints for Christmas gifts. Luckily, I know the owners REALLY well. They just shrugged their shoulders, and said "eh, the vacuum will get it".

My son's was lost in the NICU. I can only assume the nurses threw it away as medical waste.

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My son's stumps are tied with a leather string (so they won't get lost as they get really small when dessicated) and are in their individual memory box. Yeah, I know - but Nonstop kept his for 3 weeks, I think because I followed the directions to clean it with alcohol every time, and Rerun's fell off around 4 days because I decided to follow another doc's strategy which is keep it dry but allow the bodies white blood cells and natural bacteria to cleave it off. It might be difficult to find them again since they look like an apple stem or a really weird scab now.

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My daughter's fell off at some point, I have no idea when.

We did have a cat die in our yard and debated whether it ought to go in the trash or the yard waste bin. Heh.

Annie's comment about the cat is frackin' hysterical. Ew.

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SHADOW BOX!!! I am dying over here!

I kept Eric's stump, it's in a plastic baggie in his baby "book" it's actually a keepsake box that looks like a big book, really cute.

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I guess my husband isn't a freak after all. I wanted to throw them away. Seriously had no need to keep them but said husband insisted we keep them. I can only imagine their faces when they find out we have them. Of course this is the same man that fished my positive pregnancy tests out of the garbage. I love him but he has a hard time throwing things away.

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I'm dying here! This post is hilarious! I had forgotten my stump story until now...I was up in the middle of the night feeding and changing my son. After I got him all settled in I went to the bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror (probably the first time in days) and noticed something stuck to my shirt. It was his stump! I was so grossed out! I flicked it off into the trash.

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Before we even conceived our daughter, we were at a store that was going out of business and they had this cute little train that was set up as each little car was for the child's first tooth being lost and another car for the child's first locks of hair from the first hair cut. When my daughter's umbi-stump fell off, I had no other place to put it at the time so I put it in the little train car for the first tooth. It still lives there, only because I can't think of another place it should rather be!

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I kept both girls as they fell off and have them in a kepsake box (ea child has a handpainted box matching the bumpers with the names carved out)
In there---
the first stuff, the bows the midwife put on them
copy of footprints, handprints
DNA profile, blood type and recent fingerprints (every two yrs) and a copy of every picture they have ever had taken
Alot of this stuff is also in the baby book, but these are my memories I do not have to share--and everything about who they are. With my son, who died at birth--we have the only things the nurses gave us but they did cut the stump off for me to keep along with the blanket he was in. He has his own keepsake box, and it is mine to lean on when I need to remember.

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When my son's fell off, I put it on a shelf in his room. I thought it would be gross to keep it, but for some reason, I couldn't bring myself to throw it away. Six months later, the cleaning lady we were using threw it away and I actually cried. I still have the stump clip though.

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The blog title is AWESOME! I recently blogged about my baby's cord stump + wish I had been ever so clever to title it that.

Mags' cord stump sits on the edge of the changing table. I dunno WTF to do with it. I wanna toss it, but fear down the line I will regret it.

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I tossed it..I'm not so semimental.. ;P . I don't knock the ones who save it... but I'm sure his future wife would rather have a cute video or one of his tiny suits. But this is coming from one who cringes over saved teeth and other things like that.. even old locks of hair gross me out.

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I saved my kid's. It's in a little mother-of-pearl box with the wristbands from the hospital we wore.

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Nice to know my husband's not the only freak out there. I don't keep stuff like that. He still treasures the internal monitor they had in my first son's scalp when I was in labor with him. The son who turned 18 last weekend.

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Wow. Fit Pregnancy had an ad in it last month that had the brown and wierd looking stump just hanging out. I was extremely grossed out at the thought of looking at that thing on my wee baby until it fell off (I'm 5 months right now). I never even considered keeping it. To me, it would be like keeping baby's first solid poop. It will hit the trash as soon as it falls off. (which, please, let it go fast!)
And also, I know that being so squicked out by this perfectly natural thing that happens with all babies does not bode well for my fortitude in dealing with all the various grossness wee baby is going to throw my way. We'll just have to deal with it as best we can.

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When Jacob's stump fell off, I COULDN'T FIND IT!!!! It was NOT in the diaper. It was NOT in the foot of the jammies... It was NOT in the crib... To this day I wonder if my dog Bosco knows what happened to it.... ?????

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