Your baby’s umbilical cord can be sterilized with a cotton swab containing 75% alcohol or with an iodine swab. After birth, your baby’s umbilical cord will be tied and then gradually fall off, mostly within 15 days. It is also important to sterilize the cord before it falls off. Use a 75% alcohol swab around the umbilicus, sometimes the skin needs to be peeled back a little bit, and the inside and sides need to be cleaned up. Because of improper care, it can lead to umbilical cord infection, which is manifested as localized redness, swelling and even purulent secretions, and in severe cases, the infection can also cause sepsis. After the umbilical cord is removed more attention should be paid to the care of the trauma, but also three times a day with iodine swabs to scrub, keep the local dry, a few days later will grow well.