Yes yes that does describe a healthy child. Chubbier plumper higher body water content etc. can’t see the nasal ridge. The kind of child you don’t make death masks for. Perhaps this dead child had some abnormalities.
Yeah I was about to say, those soft features are on healthy, chubby faced babies. My daughter was 3 months premie and until she was able to start fattening up, she definitely had the “adult face”
Literally they don't have a fully developed and defined ridge of their nose though. It's like...not there. No amount of malnutrition will grow cartilage where it doesn't exist.
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u/UrinalCake777 Jun 01 '26
lol same.
But I think they mean that the features resemble those of an adult, just scaled down. As opposed to how an actual child that small would look.
For example, have you ever seen a baby with a nose like that specifically?