Eli5: why is a part of the umbilical cord left on a newborn baby? Why not just cut it all the way to where the belly button will be?
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Where the belly button starts and the umbilical cord ends is not exactly clear and you wouldn’t want to risk damaging the part of them that will be attached for the rest of their life
I could go into more detail but I’m explaining like I did to my four year old who asked this exact same question
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