Clean as a Newborn Baby
Sep 20th, 2013 | By Defenestration![](https://www.defenestrationmag.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/09202013-Clean-as-a-Newborn-Baby-Icon.jpg)
My wife is a NICU nurse, meaning that even without witnessing the births of my children, I would be elbows-deep in neonatal vocabulary. Case in point: from where I’m sitting RIGHT THIS SECOND, a bookshelf filled with medical textbooks threatens to collapse on me.