Three-Month-Old Newborn: Difference between revisions

This can have an unfortunate side effect, due to the fact that [[Reality Is Unrealistic]], making a person's first encounter with a real newborn possibly [[squick]]y. Real newborns aren't clean-looking, gurgling bundles of cuteness. ''Real'' newborns are covered in things like blood, amniotic fluid, and other bodily substances, up to and including fecal matter. There is a chance they could be covered in a peach fuzz like substance called "lanugo" (a remnant of when our ancestors were a lot hairier than we are now; most fetuses lose it before birth but obviously, a few don't). Their skin will usually have a red hue to it as well, and look somewhat "wrinkly", especially if they are considerably premature. On top of all this most newborns have noticeably deformed heads from the birth process since their skulls aren't yet closed and their bones are very flexible. To say nothing of the placenta that should be popping out with the babe. Even newborns that have been cleaned up and are a couple days old are generally [[Ugly Cute]] at best. It's been said that all babies look like [[Winston Churchill]].

 

 

In fiction, birth is a much cleaner, nicer ([[Screaming Birth|but still painful for the mother]]) process, and in American films and TV shows usually happens in a tent. The four-month-old tot pops out of his/her Mommy as clean as whistle and is bundled up.