baby
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She started by making simple shapes like a stuffed orange, pear and an eggplant, working her way up to the finalized baby gift: a stuffed whale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Newham Council told the BBC Jean had been offered "extensive support", including 24-hour-a-day help in a residential mother and baby unit.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The government is putting in $1,000 for each baby born from 2025 through 2028, though that payment won’t happen in auto-enrolled accounts until parents or guardians claim them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
It’s also branching beyond jeans into ’90s throwbacks like slip dresses, baby tees and leather jackets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
“Would you be willing to take a Jewish mother and her baby into your home? They will almost certainly be arrested otherwise.”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Not to worry, a kindly male neighbor assures Adam — her maternal urges will kick right in after the babies are born.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Approximately 3.6 million babies were born in the country last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
They also said "our beautiful babies, Leo, Ellis and Prudence, were loved beyond measure" and they were "devastated by the loss of Elisha, Leo, Ellis and Prudence".
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
With the population of China shrinking, Beijing wants more marriages and babies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
They had had babies, and then they had all gotten out of the cage, and there had been gerbils all over the house for a while.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
Lux missed all of last season after tearing two ligaments in his right knee in a freak spring-training baserunning mishap, and he acknowledged that he babied the surgically repaired knee in his return this season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
It also doesn’t include fellow all-star Tony Gonsolin because the Los Angeles Dodgers have so babied his development that he doesn’t have a 20-start season yet.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2022
I babied those potatoes so they would not brown.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2022
In bitter January temperatures, that range fell closer to 225 miles, no matter how I babied the throttle or dialed back on cabin temps.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
She babied him, ignored him, teased him—did anything she felt like, and he was grateful just to see her do anything or be any way.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
There was no babying of their baby brother — and no extra protection from parents, either.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
But as for the Mariners babying him and not letting him come back, you’d be 100 percent incorrect on this situation.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2022
But breaking the habit of babying your puppy will prep it for being touched by other people in different situations.
From Fox News ● Mar. 23, 2022
“To me, the baseball players, if they stop babying the pitchers — a lot of those guys they’ve come up hitting all their life and they’re really good players,” Del Rio said with a smile.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 25, 2021
“Oh, stop babying him. He's nearly an adult.”
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
