Your Newborn, Explained

Don't you wish your newborn came with operating instructions? Now she does! Our handy baby-map has the answers to your infant-care questions. Click on the baby, then scroll over the different body parts and see what our experts have to say.

SOURCES: Elaine Schulte, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics at Albany Medical College in NY; Craig Shoemaker, M.D., medical director, intensive care nursery, University of California, Davis; and Michael Speer, M.D., professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston.




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