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    swaddle


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    1. She taught us how to swaddle a baby properly and how to care for ourselves


    2. bottles or breastfeed as usual, swaddle the baby, burp a couple


    3. months old or half swaddle the baby if she is


    4. not force parents to fully swaddle their babies if they are not


    5. It will be better to swaddle and hold the baby up high


    6. to get into a swaddle, but they learn to love it after


    7. "Swaddle," she said, holding them up


    8. The one thing she would not buy was a sewing machine to make her own swaddle with, as Ilse economically counselled


    9. Ilse said true mothers always did it for themselves, and it was one of the chief joys of this blessed time, Ilse said, seeing the house grow fuller and fuller of swaddle


    10. And she took the baby off Ingeborg's passive chest, and after a few turns with it up and down the room slapping the underside of its swaddle in a way experience had taught choked out crying, put it in the pale blue cradle that stood ready on two chairs

    11. The departments of the healing art as well as of the mechanical have not yet been touched: the questions how best to divide the period of labour, how and upon what it is best to feed, how best to dress, how to counteract dampness and cold, how best to wash, to suckle, and swaddle children, and so on, and all these applied to the conditions in which the workers now exist,—all these questions have not yet been faced


    12. All questions as to how the time of labor is best divided, what is the best method of nourishment, with what, in what shape, and when it is best to clothe one’s self, to shoe one’s self, to counteract dampness and cold, how best to wash one’s self, to feed the children, to swaddle them, and so on, in just those conditions in which the working-people find themselves,—all these questions have not yet been propounded


    1. He became even louder as Hesper swaddled him in a clean linen sheet


    2. wrapped or half swaddled


    3. uncomfortable when they are swaddled; it is used to comfort


    4. Whether half swaddled or fully swaddled, place the


    5. He was swaddled in warm blankets, but it wasn’t enough


    6. "Ah--there now--now we shall see," exclaimed Frau Dosch, who had been secretly perturbed by the newborn's absence of comment while it was being washed and swaddled


    7. ” Caroline motioned to the swaddled blanket on the table


    8. The Queen placed Kartik on the white cloth and swaddled him again


    9. She heard her father’s sobs in the next room as she laid the baby on the kitchen table and swaddled it warmly


    10. Carefully wrapping it in a remnant of the burial shroud in which he’d swaddled his brother, he tucked it inside his tunic, into a pocket close to his heart

    11. Babies were swaddled by a shoulder-head wrap of cloth that blossomed openly and widely around their bodies because it was the perfect way to rape a baby or child at night without anyone hearing a thing except muffled squalls of horror and agony


    12. They could smell the rotting stinking flesh hidden under the swaddled layers of clothes and perfume


    13. Louie lay among them, swaddled in an American parachute that he had dragged in from the rice paddy


    14. Do you know, seeing this great swaddled foot of mine, I can't get it out of my mind that I have gout, and that gives me a craving for champagne


    15. I did not go to Europe; her treasures were safe, too safe, swaddled in expert care, obscured by reverence


    16. Each tub contained a tiny baby, their bodies entirely swaddled in white blankets and the tops of their heads covered in white hats, so that only their faces showed


    17. When I moved into my bungalow, I spent the first three months swaddled in blankets because I couldn’t deal with getting the gas turned on


    18. A brick path skirted the base of the wall, and once their feet were swaddled in plastic, Nicole and Conklin walked around the shadowy patch of garden


    19. Julie was swaddled in a blanket, wearing a pink stocking cap, and waving her fists


    20. Then she dropped the swaddled sword, which only half met her needs, and cast her eyes slowly round the room

    1. Azalea swaddles the baby girl


    2. Cocoanut skulls, monkeys, not even closed at first, sour milk in their swaddles and tainted curds


    3. A couch by midwives attended with wholesome food reposeful, cleanest swaddles as though forthbringing were now done and by wise foresight set: but to this no less of what drugs there is need and surgical implements which are pertaining to her case not omitting aspect of all very distracting spectacles in various latitudes by our terrestrial orb offered together with images, divine and human, the cogitation of which by sejunct females is to tumescence conducive or eases issue in the high sunbright wellbuilt fair home of mothers when, ostensibly far gone and reproductitive, it is come by her thereto to lie in, her term up


    1. ” I picked up a large parcel that held the baby"s swaddling clothes, as well as gowns and other necessities


    2. When Leah saw the swaddling cloths she could now believe I really was going to have a baby


    3. And then he said there was a babe wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger


    4. I unwrapped Jesus" swaddling clothes and examined him from head to toe


    5. She had lain quietly, stretched out on the couch with a swaddling of blankets, more as a way to not be drawn into the conversation than for any real concern for her health


    6. She had always been that way, and probably at birth her swaddling clothes had to be silk or cashmere


    7. 4 I was nursed in swaddling clothes, and that with cares


    8. In that war, there were no non-combatants, for even a babe in swaddling might carry a fearsome agent of death


    9. This first enrolment was while Quirinius was governor of Syria; And every man went to be enrolled in his city; And Joseph went up also from Nazareth a city of Galilee to Judaea to the city of David which is called Bethlehem for he was of the house of David and of his tribe with Mary his betrothed she being with child to be enrolled there; And while she was there the days for her being delivered were accomplished; And she brought out her firstborn son; and she wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger because there was no place for them where they were staying


    10. 16 And there were in that region shepherds abiding keeping their flock in the watch of the night; And look the angel of God came to them and the glory of the Lord shone on them; and they were greatly terrified; And the angel said to them Be not terrified; for I bring you tidings of great joy which shall be to the whole world; there is born to you this day a Saviour which is the Lord the Messiah in the city of David; And this is a sign for you: you shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling cloths and laid in a manger; And there appeared with the angels suddenly many Heavenly forces praising God and saying Praise be to God in the highest And on the Earth peace and good hope to men

    11. ing back in the womb for these babies is by swaddling


    12. do, and that is swaddling


    13. Full swaddling provides babies with resistance, which helps to


    14. The closeness of the swaddling changes as the baby grows


    15. Half swaddling is more appro-


    16. swaddling because they think the baby is in a strait jacket


    17. Another benefit of swaddling is that these babies will be


    18. in the swaddling clothes of our individualist endeavors and intention


    19. Swaddling the children tightly, Henriette followed Andiette around the back of the Scaliger house and across an alley, on their way to the Cathedral


    20. "Are you pleased?" she asked, swaddling the infant whose cries began to fade almost immediately in her arms

    21. Dafne cradled the baby to her chest and scurried to find swaddling and food for the infant


    22. The swaddling was removed


    23. bundle her up in swaddling clothes and hand her off to the


    24. If you raise human babies without swaddling them in layers of clothes


    25. Whether it is strapped into some sort of swaddling straitjacket and not given any freedom of movement


    26. And as the waist lines of fashion fall down ever lower… you will get the next stage of diapered swaddling that the roman masses dressed-in for centuries


    27. I found a big easy chair to settle into and rested for an hour, the warmth of the day like a swaddling cloth in which I was safely blanketed, the wind gently caressing my face, my iniquities seemingly vanquished to oblivion by half sleep, besotted by visions as pure as snow, eyelids like rich velvet curtains drawn on the horrors which played out only for me


    28. She looked away, to little Sergei Sergeiyevitch, moving the white swaddling cloth from his face and stroking his cheek


    29. For what greater nonsense can there be in connection with what we are now discussing than for an infant to appear in swaddling clothes in the first scene of the first act, and in the second a grown-up bearded man? Or what greater absurdity can there be than putting before us an old man as a swashbuckler, a young man as a poltroon, a lackey using fine language, a page giving sage advice, a king plying as a porter, a princess who is a kitchen-maid? And then what shall I say of their attention to the time in which the action they represent may or can take place, save that I have seen a play where the first act began in Europe, the second in Asia, the third finished in Africa, and no doubt, had it been in four acts, the fourth would have ended in America, and so it would have been laid in all four quarters of the globe? And if truth to life is the main thing the drama should keep in view, how is it possible for any average understanding to be satisfied when the action is supposed to pass in the time of King Pepin or Charlemagne, and the principal personage in it they represent to be the Emperor Heraclius who entered Jerusalem with the cross and won the Holy Sepulchre, like Godfrey of Bouillon, there being years innumerable between the one and the other?


    30. The best I could do most days was splash my face and strip off my sweat-drenched T-shirt and shorts before swaddling myself in my fleece anorak and leggings for the night

    31. And Lizaveta Petrovna, with one hand supporting the wobbling head, lifted up on the other arm the strange, limp, red creature, whose head was lost in its swaddling clothes


    32. And she has tried to be this for him from the moment the woman at the orphanage first offered her the bean-shaped bundle of swaddling


    33. For at the Time of your Birth, Belinda, some Nurses still swore by Swaddling (indeed ’tis still the Custom in much of Europe), whilst Parents of the more enlighten’d sort were beginning to speak out against that ancient Practice


    34. In the first Days of her Employment, she wrapp’d the Swaddling Bands around your tiny Body as tightly as she could—doubtless so that you might not move to trouble her


    35. Was Prudence swaddling you again, or was she starving you? No Matter how many Times I betook myself to her Chamber to enquire and was told “’Tis nothing,” I came back again


    36. I ran to you and took you in my Arms, unwrapp’d the Swaddling Bands, and kiss’d the Welts that Prue had made upon your Face


    37. She was too old for Swaddling now—at seven Months—but Prue had bound her to her own ugly Body by an Assortment of Rags and Twine, so that only her Arms might move


    38. The babe led the way with some sort of small dignity, holding his swaddling clothes about him with one hand and the gin glass in the other


    39. The babe led the way with some sort of small dignity, holding his swaddling clothes about him with one hand, and the gin glass in the other


    40. He had to make a great effort not to fall into the grandfather’s madness of carrying her off at two o’clock in the morning, warm with sleep in her swaddling clothes and still smelling of the cradle’s tantrums

    41. For another three I bought a little quilt and swaddling clothes


    42. Am I to go down on my knees to you, pray, because for once in your life you've been polite ? and as though it were politeness ! Why do you stare into the comer when you come in ? I know how you tear and thng about before her ! You might have said ' Good evening' to me, too, I wrapped you in your swaddling clothes, 1 am your godmother


    43. "I'll put you in your swaddling clothes, Master Bridegroom," he kept saying


    44. The watchman’s wife was hanging up the rags to dry that served the baby as swaddling clothes, while the baby was screaming desperately in Theodosia’s arms, who was trying to quiet it


    45. The rioter was drying near the oven some rags which served for swaddling cloths, while the child, in the hands of the blue-eyed Theodosia, was crying at the top of its lungs, the woman lulling it in a gentle voice


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    Synonyms for "swaddle"

    swaddle swathe

    "swaddle" definitions

    wrap in swaddling clothes