Nope! If it’s all off and closed up, you can just use baby soap and water.

Congrats – his first little milestone (are you gonna keep it?)

no if it fell of u dont have to
and now u can give him a real bath
YAY!!

I kept on doing it also until the whole scab fell of. Just to be sure that it was clean and that the scab healed faster and didn’t get icky with soap and stuff

No, actually some of the most recent studies out have shown that you do not need to continue to put alcohol on the umbilicus stump until it falls off. The studies have shown that as long as the infant is receiving one good cleaning – at birth with the triple die) then there doesn’t need to be anymore done. The study shows that the infection rate was lower for the group who did one cleaning compared to the group that was constantly rubbing it down. We no longer tell our parents to put alcohol on the stump.