swaddling clothes

This is turning into a season of swaddling clothes; of adult snugglies and softness; of clothes so squishy they are like a portable form of self-care.

They are consciously not us — not working from home, not resorting to jeans and swaddling clothes — but they embody our official reference points.

Only on Wednesday, at last, did the Duke and Duchess present their firstborn, wrapped in swaddling clothes, to the prying gaze of the world.

A grateful Mary, mother of God, gave them a piece of the baby's swaddling clothes.

She transformed herself into an astonishingly large hawk, descended on the child, gripped the swaddling clothes in her talons, and lifted the baby into the sky.