I've had it for years. Then I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. I tried changing my diet to suit the diabetes - low carbs, whole wheats, leafy greens - and my IBS flared up so badly. It was bad before I started taking my metformin/glucofage but it got increasingly worse when I changed my diet for the diabetes.
Newborns are also coated with a thick, pasty, white material called vernix caseosa (made up of the fetus' shed skin cells and skin gland secretions), most of which will be washed off during the baby's first bath.
Some birthmarks are referred to as nevi (nevus is the singular). The most common varieties are:  1 Stork bites, angel kisses, salmon patches, and vascular stains: Blotchy pink or purple flat marks that are formed by dilated capillaries near the surface of the skin.2  This is the most common type of birthmark, with up to 70 percent of babies having one or more. The ones on the forehead or eyelids, called angel kisses, usually go away by age 2. 2  Cafe cafÃ© au lait: Spots tan or light brown flat patches that sometimes appear in. 3  Multiples between 20 and 50 percent of newborns have one or two of these pigmented.  birthmarks