WordNet
n. a baby from birth to four weeks [syn: neonate, newborn, newborn baby]
Usage examples of "newborn infant".
Just yesterday he had held a newborn infant in his hands that was blue with death, but he'd learned the trick from Aunt Bel that sometimes newly reborn souls needed chafing to startle them into remembering life.
Though she is constantly watched by the other witches, I believe I may be able to discover an opportunity to slip in and kill the newborn infant, and, if you wish, the mother as well.
An unmarried woman about to adopt a newborn infant longed to nurse the infant and asked Abby whether taking hormones would help her to do so.
The woman had given birth in a farm furrow one day while working in the fields, as casually as she would have defecated, and had left the newborn infant there, as uncaringly as she would have left her excrement.
During its waking periods the newborn infant moves comparatively little.
The prince had had a child with him, but no one knew what had happened to his wife, only that she had, evidently, vanished when the daughter was still a newborn infant.
Instinctively, a newborn infant can suck and grasp, but that's about all.
The thought of confinement far from home, of feeding a newborn infant the rations of pinched Italy, began to alarm her as nothing had before.
An open drawer's a very good place to stow a newborn infant, did you know that?