The packaging has been opened

Last night while Carrie was changing a diaper, Genevieve kicked erratically and bumped Carrie's hand which in turn knocked her umbilical cord to come off. Genevieve's umbilical cord, not Carrie's. At the hospital they told us that we could return her for a full refund until we cut the tags off. We weren't planning on removing that tag, but I guess now we have to keep her. Carrie thinks they might give us store credit if we bring her back. I think they might let us get an even exchange on another one. Though, I'm not sure we want to risk getting a whole new kid. We might as well keep the one we've got.

There wasn't too much fanfare to the whole incident and we decided not to keep it. In fact, without a second thought Carrie had tossed it into the trash with a dirty diaper. In some countries they have them bronzed.....umm, I don't think we're going to do that.

Normally you are supposed to wait until they fall off on their own, but things like this happen. Genevieve is fine, though now we have to clean the stump at every diaper change so that it won't get infected.