A few drops of saline in each nostril, followed by good suctioning, gives temporary relief. Do this before feedings and before naptime. You would too, if you swam around for 9 months. Actually, the amount of peeling of a newborn's skin is related to how mature the baby is when born. Preterm babies peel very little, term babies peel quite a bit, and post-term babies may shed the skin in large flakes, especially the skin of the palms and soles.
Babies usually develop quite runny bowel movements two or three days after birth.
These loose watery stools in newborns are caused by the fact that when they are born, babies' intestinal lining lacks adequate amounts of the enzyme lactase to digest the sugar of breast or cow milk - lactose. Undigested lactose in the colon causes water to be retained in the stool, producing the characteristic watery consistency. After a few days, the levels of lactase rise in the small bowel, and this phenomenon gets better. Breast fed babies also get colostrum for the first few days, which has a laxative effect. Newborns have hiccups quite often.