- present participle of swaddle.
swaddling
Example Sentences
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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
Video shows firefighters and emergency personnel delivering the child and swaddling the newborn in a white towel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
"I pulled him up, I was swaddling him and I walked him up the hill."
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2024
The model also urges hospitals to keep infants in dark, quiet rooms with their parents; to teach skin-to-skin bottle feeding and lactation; and to support swaddling, among other treatments.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
And she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in the manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
