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.
Your baby probably loves their black-and-white toys and cloth books because they found it easier to pick out the high contrast with their fuzzy newborn vision. But now they are beginning to be able to see colours more clearly: red, green and yellow are the first around this week, followed by blue soon after.