newborn
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- noun
- /ˈnuːbɔrn/
- The pediatrician said that a newborn should be checked for any health issues within the first week after birth.
- mothers of newborns
- newborn at the breast
- survival of the newborn
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Watch on YouTubeI'm here with a newborn and I'm at the table.
- I'm here with a newborn and I'm at the table.
- So now we've got a newborn sleeping in our room every night.
- Majority of newborns actually die in the first week.
- But like all three of us have newborns and welcome to the club, gentlemen.
- The kid is was like a newborn, basically.
- And you kind of like wish that you could relive having a newborn for the first time.
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So now we've got a newborn sleeping in our room every night.
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A mother and her newborn in a new lactation room in Martha Van Rensselaer.
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And so much of what helps the the newborn actually also helps the mother.
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Last year was like crazy having a newborn and and working as much as we actually did.
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And we all know how expensive newborn intensive care is.
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I'm here with a newborn and I'm at the table.
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I feel like I need to read up again about what newborns require.
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In his arms was his three-week old newborn baby, Tim.
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They had travelled from the far reaches of the kingdom to see the newborn baby.
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Sophisticated medical devices are used to monitor a newborn in the maternity ward of a rural hospital in Kyrgyzstan.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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A very young child or animal that cannot walk and cannot talk yet
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A very young child usually under one year who is not yet walking or talking
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A baby less than four weeks old, often cared for in a hospital
A baby who shows signs of life after birth, like breathing or a heartbeat
A baby who is being fed by its mother or a person who cares for it
A baby looked after and fed at the breast by a caregiver
Antonyms
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High levels of a yellow blood substance in newborn babies that make their skin and eyes yellow
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A yellow colour on a newborn baby's skin that usually goes away on its own
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A serious lung problem in newborn babies, often premature, when their lungs cannot open properly and they have trouble breathing
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Newborn babies breathe quickly and then stop for short times
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A common harmless yellowing of a baby's skin and eyes from an immature liver that goes away
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Etymology
Newborn comes from the simple parts new ('not old') and born ('to be born'), so it literally means a baby who has just been born.