There is ONE thing I invariably get asked by all (or at least the VAST majority) new parents in the days and weeks after birth. And that is if the amount of peeling/shedding/flaking skin on their brand new baby is normal…..

ERYTHEMA TOXICUM NEONATORUM……quite an alarming skin reaction to being born. When your baby is born, oftentimes (in between 40-70% of all babies) in the first couple of weeks, but usually in the days after birth, they will come up with weird spotty areas, red blotchiness and ninja spots that pop up in one place, only to disappear and pop up somewhere else again…..