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The appearance of the newborn is characterized by the shoulders and pelvis narrow abdomen protruding, arms and short legs and a skull very large compared to the rest of the body. At birth and immediately after the skull bones have not yet settled and there are several points on the skull “soft” called fountains, two larger ones, the anterior fontanel and the posterior fontanels, both are intended to merge in the first months of life. During labor and the passage into the birth canal, the skull of the infant undergoes compression, infants born via natural childbirth are often characterized by the elongated shape of the skull, sometimes asymmetrical, and something that usually changes within a few days after birth.

At the time of the birth weight of a term newborn is usually between 2.7 and 4.6 kg, the length is between 35.6 and 50.8 cm even though they are rare babies longer. Some babies have thin hairs, called lint that may be more noticeable on shoulders, back, forehead and even face going to disappear in a few days. Even appearance and amount of hair present at birth differ from case to case; there are infants with thick hair while others have only a few sparse hairs short and clear.