swaddle
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She told police she had learnt how to wrap and swaddle babies on the job and had no formal training in how to put children down to sleep.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
“We knew absolutely nothing about child care. We needed someone to show us: This is how you change a diaper, this is how you swaddle, this is how you wash a baby’s hair,” said Zhu.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2024
Don’t use loose blankets either — swaddle or use a sleepsack instead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
The word “overbundle,” meaning to swaddle a newborn too tightly, appeared for the first time in The Times yesterday.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
I get the kids out the pool, swaddle em up in towels.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
Chasing down a comment on male-imposed expectations — and, more subtly, self-imposed ones — her macro lens swaddles everything in consumable lushness.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2024
They purchased supplies for the baby — a portable crib, diapers and wipes, a breast pump, onesies, swaddles, shampoo.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
The device includes a “sleep sack” that swaddles babies up to 6 months old who are not able to roll over consistently.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
There’s the Ostrich Pillow, a gray “ultimate cocoon” that swaddles your head so you can rest it on the tray table.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2019
The puke swaddles down the pillow onto the sheet—green-gray, with flecks of orange.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
Based on those, she had thought that she had been abandoned in the street, her brother swaddled on her back with their names and ages pinned to their clothes.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
Filippo Brunelleschi, the architect, designed the Innocenti building, while Andrea della Robbia, the sculptor, was responsible for depicting idealized versions of the swaddled infants the institution took in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
The trend consists of people swaddled in silicone masks and mouth tape, filming themselves removing the skin care products they slept in the night before.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025
"With Love, Meghan" is like a Calm app episode with a host swaddled in creamy neutral tones.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025
As we talked, their baby—a tiny newborn with a pink face—lay swaddled in a blanket on his chest.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
How familiar too is the fact that his little feet have kicked free of his swaddling, revealing 10 bare toes and the underside of one foot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Toler said she enjoyed her quiet morning swaddling the monkey and was happy it would receive the care it needs at the Oakland Zoo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2025
"I pulled him up, I was swaddling him and I walked him up the hill."
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2024
In the new approach — called Eat, Sleep, Console — nurses involve mothers as they evaluate together whether rocking, breastfeeding or swaddling can calm the baby, Young said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2023
His arms and legs, freed from their swaddling, beat the air.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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