Sentences with phrase «vernix still»
Some babies happen to be born with lots of vernix still on the skin.
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After a very short labor, I was handed to her still covered in vernix and she had an intense urge to lick me clean.
Sounds may be muffled, though, because the ears are still covered with vernix, the thick waxy coating that protects the skin from becoming chapped by the amniotic fluid.
She was still holding out that her present would be wrapped in vernix.
Along with traces of lanugo, many babies are still coated in vernix at birth.
Her placenta was fine and she was still covered in vernix and not at all wrinkled or looking like an overdue baby.
If they are born this week, they might still have a little lanugo hair on their bodies, or patches of vernix, the waxy white substance that has protected them in the womb.
Babies tend to lose the vernix the longer the mother is pregnant, so those babies born at 42 weeks might not have a lot of it visible anymore, though usually there is still some hidden in the folds of their skin and under their arms.
The vernix looks sort of like a pasty ointment, and it may still be on your baby immediately after birth — as seen on the newborn below!