babyhood

I wasn’t after infants who are incidental to the plot; I wanted babies whose babyhood was essential to the story.

When children first come to school, they step out of the private world of babyhood and family.

Since babyhood, she had experienced episodes of searing pain, hospitalization and organ damage, and would have been expected to die in her 40s.

They are infants—you look away a minute and in that time they have left their babyhood behind.

Then there are her hands, which Rett syndrome has characteristically made her wring daily since babyhood.