infanthood

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Buying elastic waistband pants for my late-pandemic body is as far as I want anyone to regress into infanthood.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2021

Your mother is right about one thing: Children are learning machines and it starts in infanthood.

From Slate • Oct. 1, 2014

But today the very hippest babies are relaxing from the trials and tensions of infanthood by taking up the age-old practice of yoga.

From Time Magazine Archive

He considers that the most important thing of all is to establish in the minds of the children noble ideals with regard to infanthood and motherhood.

From Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Health appointed by the Hon. Minister of Health by New Zealand. Committee of the Board of Health

Still, Master Henry was not a remarkable specimen of infanthood, and had never occupied more than his proper nepotal corner in Hilary's heart.

From Mistress and Maid by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock