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Chalky Baby Blue: Pale blue walls and whitewashed floorboards create a bright and modern look. An all-white scheme can look rather stark, but just adding chalky baby blue to the walls gives the space a softer, more easy-going feel. Cushions and throws add splashes of bright cerise, blue and pink, and these can be swapped around or added to any time to change the feel.
A newborn baby does not look "mighty like a rose" to anyone but his parents or a poet. To unprejudiced eyes he is usually an incredibly small creature, wet, coated with a protective chalky substance, and often red and wrinkled. His head and abdomen look much too large; his legs are short and bowed. His smoky blue eyes wander about independently of each other and often cross.
Babies who arrive a little after the nine-month period are more likely to resemble the chubby, rosy, doll-like creatures that advertisers picture to appeal to prospective parents. Yet even the most unprepossessing specimens are complete in almost every detail—delicately formed fingers that can grasp your finger, toes complete with nails, facial features that have survived the hardships of the birth process.
Septa/ Defects. Ventricular septal defects, when isolated and small, cause little harm and allow a long life if there is adequate protection against bacterial infection of the defect. When complicated by a high degree of right ventricular infundibular or pulmonary valve stenosis, it gives rise to the morbus ceruleus, or blue baby. The blue coloration of the baby's skin is due to a lack of oxygen resulting from much of the blood bypassing the lungs. Instead of traveling to the lungs from the right ventricle, the blood passes through the septal opening directly into the left side of the heart, from where it is pumped into the aorta. This condition requires surgical correction if the child is to survive. |
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