![]() Even baby precocial animals (those that are active and capable of complex actions shortly after being born), like baby chicks, ducklings, guinea pigs, foals, fawns, and calves, spend most of their first hour after being born exhausted from exertion and usually very drowsy, damp, and clumsy. Marsupials (such as kangaroos, opossums, possums, quolls, and koalas) are even more altricial, looking uncannily like gummi bears and being about the same size. Take a look at a newborn rabbit ◊ and you'll think your bunny just gave birth to a dumpling. This can even carry over to newborn animal babies, which fiction likes to depict as the cutest, smallest things ever to arrive, when in actuality, most altricial newborn animals arrive slimy, hairless, and often eyeless because their eyes may be covered by a layer of skin that takes some time to wither away. It's been said that all newborn babies look like Winston Churchill. Even newborns that have been cleaned up and are a couple of days old are generally Ugly Cute at best. To say nothing of the placenta that should be popping out with the babe. note Babies delivered by cesarean section either do not have this, or it is far less pronounced. On top of all this, most newborns have noticeably misshapen heads from the birth process, since their skulls aren't yet closed and their bones are very flexible. Their skin will usually have a red hue to it as well and look somewhat "wrinkly", especially if they are considered premature. ![]() They may also be covered in a waxy white substance called vernix caseosum, which is basically just congealed skin oils, dead cells, and lanugo and serves as a sort of moisturizer for the baby before birth, when they were still submerged in amniotic fluid. 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). They're covered in mucus, blood, amniotic fluid, and other bodily substances, up to and including fecal matter. Real newborns aren't clean-looking gurgling bundles of cuteness. This can have an unfortunate side effect, because Reality Is Unrealistic, making a person's first encounter with a real newborn possibly squicky. This is because sound stages are hot, loud, bright, stuffy, and dusty places-not a great environment for a newborn infant prone to infection and unable to control body temperature. Put this down to a mixture of simple ethics, employment laws, casting laws, and logistics that make it unacceptable to cast a real newborn in such a role. Whenever a supposedly just-born child appears on TV, the baby you will see will actually be several months old. The Nostalgia Critic, The Swan Princess reviewĪ subtrope of Dawson Casting, one specifically about newborns, or at least TV so-called newborns.
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