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Vernix on Your Newborn: Why It's There and What to Do With It
Most newborns arrive with some amount of waxy white coating on them — sometimes a thin film, sometimes thick deposits in the creases and the hair. It...
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Why a Newborn's Skin Colour Looks Unusual and When It's Normal
Newborn skin is a moving target. In the first hours alone it can shift from beetroot-red to dusky pink to blotchy purple-mottled and back again. Almos...
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Newborn Skin Colour: What's Normal, What's Not
A newborn is not the smooth, uniform pink baby on the formula tin. In the first weeks expect bluish hands and feet, a yellow tinge across the face and...
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Meconium and Vernix in Newborns: What They Are and Why They Matter
Two things show up at almost every birth that nobody really explains to you in advance: a tar-black first nappy, and a white, waxy coating on the baby...
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Caring for Skin Folds in Newborns and Infants: Preventing and Treating Irritation
Babies have folds — at the neck, the armpits, the groin, behind the knees, behind the ears, the wrists. Those rolls trap milk, sweat, and the warm dam...
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Newborn Skin: What Is Normal and How to Care for It
A newborn's skin is the topic of more anxious WhatsApp messages than almost anything else in the first weeks. Peeling on the feet, blotchy red patches...
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Common Newborn Skin Conditions: What's Normal and What Needs a Doctor
Newborn skin produces a parade of rashes, blotches, and birthmarks in the first three months that look much more dramatic than they are. The vast majo...
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Milk Spots (Milia) and Other Newborn Skin Conditions That Look Alarming but Aren't
The newborns in stock photos do not exist. Real newborn skin in the first weeks is blotchy, peeling, sometimes pimpled, occasionally yellow-scaled, an...
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Newborn Skin Care: What Products to Use (and What to Avoid)
The baby skincare aisle is enormous and most of it is unnecessary. "Natural", "organic", "gentle" and "dermatologically tested" are marketing words wi...
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