No church today. We were getting ready when Jana noticed the stub of the umbilical cord had fallen off. She called her obgyn, who said to put betadine (iodine solution) on the wound. Took a while to find that in the mess of a medicine cabinet, and then late to go to church.
I cut the cord too long when Gloria was born. Our pediatrician had just left for a Thai vacation, leaving the retired head of the delivery department at the hospital to substitute. She compensating for my mistake by clamping and cutting the cord far to short. I had gone to get something from the car while she did this, and had just assumed that this little thing wouldn't be messed up.