after-health

Updated: May 5, 2025

Bleeding of the navel-string rarely occurs, yet, if it should do so the medical man not being at hand the child's after-health, or even his life, may, if the above directions be not adopted, be endangered. When does the navel-string separate from the child? From five days to a week after birth; in some cases not until ten days or a fortnight, or even, in rare cases, not until three weeks.

Pye Henry Chavasse - Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children