newborn

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Any mom will tell you that shifting pregnancy pounds while caring for a newborn is as hard as teaching someone as old as me to snowboard.

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  1. adjective Very recently born: a newborn baby.
  2. adjective Born anew: newborn courage.
  3. noun A neonate.

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  • Still, alarm bells of hell ring through her, agitation that will not cease for any soothing, so relentless that, within a day, she breaks down and asks to speak with His Royal Ego, her husband For the simple reason that the king gives not a rat's sphincter about the fate of the baby, one can tell that the newborn is a girl. —  FSF,March2008
  • He lay motionless, his eyes wide open, and blank and unknowing as a newborn babe's. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
  • But as a newborn, my children were more likely to be found in my bed than in their own. —  English-writing Israeli-bloggers
  • What a great gift for a newborn, a parent-to-be, or a teacher! —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • Any mom will tell you that shifting pregnancy pounds while caring for a newborn is as hard as teaching someone as old as me to snowboard. —  Babies Online - The Blog
 

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